i had wmp6.4 [which comes with win98se]
after many embedded players in websites failed to play complaining i need a newer 
media player, i decided to upgrade to wmp9

after screaming at microsoft that this new player is awful and that it hijacked all 
my audio and video extensions [i really like the v6.4 since it's more pleasant], 
i reassigned all of the extensions through mediaplayer 6.4. everything is fine except 
one annoying problem.

before the upgrade, when i clicked on wmv/avi/mpg/wav/mp3 link in internet explorer, 
the media player would come up and then start playing and DURING the playing it downloaded 
the rest [streaming the media]
after upgrading, when i click those links, internet explorer downloads the WHOLE 
file and when it finishes, it sends the file to media player 6.4
i hate it like that, if i wanted the whole file, i would choose "save target as".
note that this only happens with HTTP protocol.
MMS works as it should.

please help me restore the streaming of the files.

i am a power user so any messing with the registry is welcomed [i prefer it like 
that, than running a "hot-fix"]

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re: WMV streaming Sunday, March 5, 2006 at 7:00 am Posted by MrCharlie (4474 messages posted) You should be able to uninstall it from add/remove programs and you will be left with the original version. MrC [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: WMV streaming Sunday, March 5, 2006 at 4:56 pm Posted by JmC (14166 messages posted) Open 'Folder Options' and locate each file type (.asf, wmv etc) you have this problem with, in the 'File Types' tab listing. Then simply change the 'Action' to open in WMP. [Reply or follow-up to this message] still doesnt work Monday, March 6, 2006 at 9:47 am Posted by Raffi (2 messages posted) thank you mrCharlie and JmC, for the quick reply. mrCharlie, this is not the answer I was looking for; uninstalling the new media player would bring me back to sqaure one- I will not be able to play embedded videos on some sites requiring newest media player, the reason I installed it. JmC, I went through the File Types and all of them are correctly associated with the media player As I said, I went to the old MediaPlayer options and selected all file types to be associated with it. moreover, when I click all the files in Windows Explorer [shell] everything is working OK In Internet Explorer, after clicking on WMV, AVI, MPG etc., the files are also opened with MediaPlayer but they are first downloaded completely and then starting to play in media player. I want it to be played the minute I click on WMV [or other streaming formats] and then continue downloading as it plays the video, like it was before I installed the new media player (beforehand, whenever I clicked on WMV/AVI/MPG the media player would immediately open, connect and start buffering and then play) I suspect it has nothing to do with the association in the 'Folder Option -> File Types' : (current setting in WMV, AVI, MPG: Open as default, "C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\mplayer2.exe" /Play "%L") since what is defined there is the command run when the file is finished downloading. I believe that some reigstry values were changed with the installation that concern the behaviour of internet explorer when linked to video files. :-( I realize that this is kind of unusual question, as I did not find anything related to my problem in google. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: still doesnt work Monday, March 6, 2006 at 2:18 pm Posted by JmC (14166 messages posted) Since your problems started with the upgrade to WMP 9, how about dumping what you have now and using this cleanup procedure. Then reinstall the version you prefer. Uninstalling Windows Media Player 9.0 Completely [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum