Windows Media Player

[Shift Happens]

My daughter downloaded Real Player. I checked the file
types in Windows Media Player and made sure that it was
the preferred player for MPEG, MPG, AVI & WMV. But, now
it doesn't work like it used to. I used to be able to
left click on an MPEG on a web page and Windows Media
Player would automatically open up and play the file.
Now it just wants to automatically put it to a temp
file. I know that even when it begins to play it
straight from the web page that it is saving as a temp
file too, but I want to be able to left click and the
file begin playing. Can someone assist me it getting it
working again? Thanks....

 

[Jim Macklin]

Real Player (particularly the default install your daughter
no doubt did) will take over all the default media options
and actually block WMP. I personally hate RP, won't install
any RP on my computer.

You'll need to go into WMP and set it to be default and go
into RP and change a lot of settings manually.


in message | My daughter downloaded Real Player. I checked the file
| types in Windows Media Player and made sure that it was
| the preferred player for MPEG, MPG, AVI & WMV. But, now
| it doesn't work like it used to. I used to be able to
| left click on an MPEG on a web page and Windows Media
| Player would automatically open up and play the file.
| Now it just wants to automatically put it to a temp
| file. I know that even when it begins to play it
| straight from the web page that it is saving as a temp
| file too, but I want to be able to left click and the
| file begin playing. Can someone assist me it getting it
| working again? Thanks....