This sounds like something isn't letting WMP shut down properly - you would
definitely want to check for driver updates for your audio and video card.
Any time it refuses to shut down, as Rob mentioned, wmplayer.exe should
likely be listed in the Processes tab of Task Manager.

In theory you may be getting crash or hang information about this in your
Problem Reports and Solutions center- that data may have additional useful
information.

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"Steve Paddock" <steve.paddock@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:FE50134C-4317-4522-B1FE-AACC6E6F2926@microsoft.com...
>I have recently upgraded to Vista Home Premium. For some reason, it now
>seems to be pot luck whether whether Windows Media Player will start or
>not. When it refuses to start I have tried everything down to
>double-clicking the wmplayer .exe file. Not a flicker and no error messages
>are displayed. When it does start I have full functionality until again, it
>refuses. I have tried after cold and hot restarts but there are no set of
>circumstances that guarantee a working application.
>
> Anyone any ideas please??
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve

Hey there, I've got the same problem, i can't get media player to open when I
click on media files. I have to shut it down in task manager before I use it,
and even then I'll have to repeat that process if I want to open it again
later. Is this a bug? Is there a patch to fix it? If I open task manager it
sometimes doesnt want to shut WMP down at first .. it dissapears and appears
on the task manager flashing in and out .. maybe catching up because i tried
to open it a few times ..
...all in all .. most irritating

"zachd [MSFT]" wrote:

>
> This sounds like something isn't letting WMP shut down properly - you would
> definitely want to check for driver updates for your audio and video card.
> Any time it refuses to shut down, as Rob mentioned, wmplayer.exe should
> likely be listed in the Processes tab of Task Manager.
>
> In theory you may be getting crash or hang information about this in your
> Problem Reports and Solutions center- that data may have additional useful
> information.
>
> --
> Speaking for myself only.
> See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
> --
>
> "Steve Paddock" <steve.paddock@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:FE50134C-4317-4522-B1FE-AACC6E6F2926@microsoft.com...
> >I have recently upgraded to Vista Home Premium. For some reason, it now
> >seems to be pot luck whether whether Windows Media Player will start or
> >not. When it refuses to start I have tried everything down to
> >double-clicking the wmplayer .exe file. Not a flicker and no error messages
> >are displayed. When it does start I have full functionality until again, it
> >refuses. I have tried after cold and hot restarts but there are no set of
> >circumstances that guarantee a working application.
> >
> > Anyone any ideas please??
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Steve
>
>
>

This is a bug in Vista and so far I have not seen a fix. Whats most
irritating is you can't even uninstall WM! Windows is so bad. If I
didn't need it for work (most large companies use it) I would use Linux
full time. However, because of other BS problems and compatibility
issues that cannot get resolved, I am waiting for a new hard drive for
my laptop and I am downgrading (if thats what you want to call it) back
to XP. I will keep the current harddrive with Vista as a fall back in
case I can't get all the drivers for this laptop (dv2315) or in case
Vista finally corrects its issues.

Good luck with the WM problem!


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I can't reproduce your failure, so I don't have a lot to go on here.
The fact that it's not crashing is somewhat interesting but not helpful
other than as a light scoping of the problem.

Paolo said that running:
regsvr32 jscript.dll
from a CMD.exe prompt Run As Administrator fixed up this issue for him -
does this fix you up?

What changed on the system prior to this happening?

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"Gino" <Gino@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9AA18256-583C-4CDE-9ACA-2609F27885FD@microsoft.com...
> Hey there, I've got the same problem, i can't get media player to open
> when I
> click on media files. I have to shut it down in task manager before I use
> it,
> and even then I'll have to repeat that process if I want to open it again
> later. Is this a bug? Is there a patch to fix it? If I open task manager
> it
> sometimes doesnt want to shut WMP down at first .. it dissapears and
> appears
> on the task manager flashing in and out .. maybe catching up because i
> tried
> to open it a few times ..
> ..all in all .. most irritating
>
> "zachd [MSFT]" wrote:
>
>>
>> This sounds like something isn't letting WMP shut down properly - you
>> would
>> definitely want to check for driver updates for your audio and video
>> card.
>> Any time it refuses to shut down, as Rob mentioned, wmplayer.exe should
>> likely be listed in the Processes tab of Task Manager.
>>
>> In theory you may be getting crash or hang information about this in your
>> Problem Reports and Solutions center- that data may have additional
>> useful
>> information.
>>
>> --
>> Speaking for myself only.
>> See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
>> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
>> rights.
>> --
>>
>> "Steve Paddock" <steve.paddock@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:FE50134C-4317-4522-B1FE-AACC6E6F2926@microsoft.com...
>> >I have recently upgraded to Vista Home Premium. For some reason, it now
>> >seems to be pot luck whether whether Windows Media Player will start or
>> >not. When it refuses to start I have tried everything down to
>> >double-clicking the wmplayer .exe file. Not a flicker and no error
>> >messages
>> >are displayed. When it does start I have full functionality until again,
>> >it
>> >refuses. I have tried after cold and hot restarts but there are no set
>> >of
>> >circumstances that guarantee a working application.
>> >
>> > Anyone any ideas please??
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Steve
>>
>>
>>

"FlaDude" wrote:

>
> This is a bug in Vista and so far I have not seen a fix. Whats most
> irritating is you can't even uninstall WM! Windows is so bad. If I
> didn't need it for work (most large companies use it) I would use Linux
> full time. However, because of other BS problems and compatibility
> issues that cannot get resolved, I am waiting for a new hard drive for
> my laptop and I am downgrading (if thats what you want to call it) back
> to XP. I will keep the current harddrive with Vista as a fall back in
> case I can't get all the drivers for this laptop (dv2315) or in case
> Vista finally corrects its issues.
>
> Good luck with the WM problem!
>
>
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>
>

I have this problem too. And, WMP does not show up in my task manager, so
that solution doesn't help me at all. I'd love to add the script to my start
up

-echo START
date /t
time /t
For /F "tokens=2" %%n in ('tasklist ^| Find "wmplayer.exe"') Do Set task=%%n
echo %task%
TaskKill /PID %task%
Set task=
echo END-

but have not idea how to take the script and put it in start up. Do I save
it as a Word .doc?

Thanks for any help at all.



"FlaDude" wrote:

>
> This is a bug in Vista and so far I have not seen a fix. Whats most
> irritating is you can't even uninstall WM! Windows is so bad. If I
> didn't need it for work (most large companies use it) I would use Linux
> full time. However, because of other BS problems and compatibility
> issues that cannot get resolved, I am waiting for a new hard drive for
> my laptop and I am downgrading (if thats what you want to call it) back
> to XP. I will keep the current harddrive with Vista as a fall back in
> case I can't get all the drivers for this laptop (dv2315) or in case
> Vista finally corrects its issues.
>
> Good luck with the WM problem!
>
>
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>
>

If you right-click it and choose Run As Administrator, does it work then?

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"Bruce" <Bruce@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:44BE6F3D-0919-4289-B1B3-9B1FA3E4977C@microsoft.com...
>I have this problem too. And, WMP does not show up in my task manager, so
> that solution doesn't help me at all. I'd love to add the script to my
> start
> up
>
> -echo START
> date /t
> time /t
> For /F "tokens=2" %%n in ('tasklist ^| Find "wmplayer.exe"') Do Set
> task=%%n
> echo %task%
> TaskKill /PID %task%
> Set task=
> echo END-
>
> but have not idea how to take the script and put it in start up. Do I
> save
> it as a Word .doc?
>
> Thanks for any help at all.
>
>
>
> "FlaDude" wrote:
>
>>
>> This is a bug in Vista and so far I have not seen a fix. Whats most
>> irritating is you can't even uninstall WM! Windows is so bad. If I
>> didn't need it for work (most large companies use it) I would use Linux
>> full time. However, because of other BS problems and compatibility
>> issues that cannot get resolved, I am waiting for a new hard drive for
>> my laptop and I am downgrading (if thats what you want to call it) back
>> to XP. I will keep the current harddrive with Vista as a fall back in
>> case I can't get all the drivers for this laptop (dv2315) or in case
>> Vista finally corrects its issues.
>>
>> Good luck with the WM problem!
>>
>>
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>>
>>

When you go to Control Panel>Services what is the status of WMP?

"Bruce" <Bruce@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:44BE6F3D-0919-4289-B1B3-9B1FA3E4977C@microsoft.com...
>I have this problem too. And, WMP does not show up in my task manager, so
> that solution doesn't help me at all. I'd love to add the script to my
> start
> up
>
> -echo START
> date /t
> time /t
> For /F "tokens=2" %%n in ('tasklist ^| Find "wmplayer.exe"') Do Set
> task=%%n
> echo %task%
> TaskKill /PID %task%
> Set task=
> echo END-
>
> but have not idea how to take the script and put it in start up. Do I
> save
> it as a Word .doc?
>
> Thanks for any help at all.
>
>
>
> "FlaDude" wrote:
>
>>
>> This is a bug in Vista and so far I have not seen a fix. Whats most
>> irritating is you can't even uninstall WM! Windows is so bad. If I
>> didn't need it for work (most large companies use it) I would use Linux
>> full time. However, because of other BS problems and compatibility
>> issues that cannot get resolved, I am waiting for a new hard drive for
>> my laptop and I am downgrading (if thats what you want to call it) back
>> to XP. I will keep the current harddrive with Vista as a fall back in
>> case I can't get all the drivers for this laptop (dv2315) or in case
>> Vista finally corrects its issues.
>>
>> Good luck with the WM problem!
>>
>>
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>> FlaDude
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>>
>>