Windows Media sucks my balls
 

At work, i have a win2000 machine. Since I upgraded to WM 9, every time I open a windows media file, as soon as it starts playing my machine freezes.
I can hear the audio, but everything else is blank and the machine is totally unresponsive. Ctl-alt-delete does nothing. I have to power cycle the machine to get things back to normal. either.:feels-hot

I tried downgrading to WM 4 and WM 7.1, but now they don't work. I poured over the windows help center to no effect.

Does anyone have any tips beyond Format c: ?

get divx player.

I have a similiar problem with windows XP. I cannot listen to any live feeds like the adult webmaster radio shows. It buffers, it loads and then it crashes every single time. Same with Real Player too. On my laptop with windows 2000, it all works fine but not with XP. Go figure, it drives me nuts that I have to use my laptop to listen to audio feeds!

WG

i have divx. i didn't think it played windows media files...

stick to wmp8 and just get the wmp9 codecs. Problem solved. DO a system rollback if you can to a point before wmp9

It does.. I use it all the time, it own windows media player

Use a decent OS and use mplayer with the windows media codecs.

actualy, downlaod every video codec out there and set Winamp as default player for all media. That's what I did. Never been happier

That's funny, Real Player tends to suck my balls pretty regularly...Windoes Media never even offers to..

must be your shitty sound card

I remember Divx having problems too. It would not refresh the frame displayed in its viewer unless I moved the Divx window around. I would have to grab the window and make little circle movements to get it to refresh the screen.

I was thinking of sticking to ascii art.
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