Marcel de Koster

Windows 7 beta: Media player hangs

Playing around with Windows 7 beta, I had trouble with the Media Player. The player seems to hang. That is, the library was not shown and the “hour glass” was displayed when I was moving the mouse pointer over the media player. And I was not able to end the Media Player process in the Task Manager.

After some digging, I found the solution to fix the trouble with the media player. That is, it worked for me.

In the control panel, there is a entry for find and fix problems:

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Selecting this functionality, takes you to the troubleshoot tool. There you have to select “view all”.

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In the next window you be able to “troubleshoot” the “Windows Media Player Library” and the “Windows Media Player Settings” by clicking it.

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After this troubleshooting the media player works fine again.

 

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Comments

Jim said:

Thanks - this fixed my problem.

# December 29, 2009 9:38 PM

Jos said:

Eindelijk alles werkt weer prima.

Nochtans heb ik al eens moeten vaststellen dat het probleem later terug opduikt.

# January 15, 2010 11:07 PM

Luc said:

Doesn't work, because its infected

# March 2, 2010 5:12 PM

I said:

werkt niet, media player wil nu helemaal niet meer opstarten

# July 20, 2011 5:20 PM
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