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do I reset the Windows Media Player video cache?:


Hello.

I read the subject and didnt think it pertained to my problem, but then I read the 
article and it seems that it related directly to my problem.

Problem : My videos are much shorter than they should be.  A 63 Mb file (MPEG) on 
my hard drive is supposed to be almost 20 minutes long, but when I go to play it, 
it registers only one minute.  Now, I have opened the same file in the past.  And 
played it all the way through, in the past.  I did download another file that was 
a carbon copy, opened up a preview of it before it fully downloaded, then deleted 
it (names were different, thought it was a different file)

Well, I think now that is what made the file shorter.  I read this article, and tried 
all three solutions (changing name of file, changing directory of file, and deleting 
the file as mentioned in Solution 2) and even mixed and matched, till I did all three 
at once and STILL is only 1 minute long.  I even tried making that wmp file a read-only 
file as said in one of the replies.  Still only one minute for a 63 MB file.

I have also downloaded other movies which should be much longer than what they are 
(less than a minute some) and those I didnt even open up in a preview.  So I'm at 
a complete and total loss here.  I would really appriciate some help, but if you 
cant, thats understandable, this is one stupid problem heh.

Josh

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