re: Reinstalling/repairing broken WMP11? (wont play many files) Thursday, March 8, 2007 at 7:54 pm Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Rdfoster (16 messages posted) I had a similar problem with wmp11 until I uninstalled all other codecs. Then it worked fine. Hope this helps. rdfoster On Thursday, March 8, 2007 at 12:32 pm, Impfac wrote: >I would like to reinstall/repair WMP11 but cannot figure out how, no matter how much >googling I do. Here is the reason: > >Media Player 11 has been working fine, playing all the files I threw at it. Then, >one day (possibly due to installing new nvidia display drivers???), it wont play >many video's or ANY mp3's. It says: > >"Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The player might not support the file >type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the file." > >I've tried many codec packs (I remove each one after it fails to help the problem). >Other media players work ok, but I really want WMP11 for video's and sometimes music. > >So what can I do? Thanks! Written in response to: Reinstalling/repairing broken WMP11? (wont play many files) (Impfac: Thursday, March 8, 2007 at 12:32 pm) Responses to this message: re: Reinstalling/repairing broken WMP11? (wont play many files) (Impfac: Thursday, March 8, 2007 at 8:57 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Reinstalling/repairing broken WMP11? (wont play many files) (Impfac: Thu, Mar 8, 2007, 12:32 pm) re: Reinstalling/repairing broken WMP11? (wont play many files) (Rdfoster: Thu, Mar 8, 2007, 7:54 pm) re: Reinstalling/repairing broken WMP11? (wont play many files) (Impfac: Thu, Mar 8, 2007, 8:57 pm) re: Reinstalling/repairing broken WMP11? (wont play many files) (beebobby: Fri, Mar 9, 2007, 4:52 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Vista Discussion Forum