IE7 breaks Windows Media Player streaming media

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Brian

We just rolled out IE7 in our office. Now nobody is able to streaming
internet radio or streaming video from our website through windows media
player. It is happening with both WMP 11 and WMP 9. When someone opens
windows media player, selects Media Guide, clicks Internet Radio, and clicks
listen under one of the station they get a very quick file download window
and then WMP says it is connecting and then it locks up. If I open task
manager wmplayer.exe is using 80% - 100% of the CPU and never responds again
until I kill the process and re-open it.


Here is the really strange part of this. Myself and 2 other admins have
been using/test IE7 for about a year and have had zero problems. I can login
to any of our computers with our Domain Admin account and it works fine.
However, if i temporarly make a normal user account and local or domain admin
they still have the problem.


I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling IE7 and WMP. If i roll IE back
to IE6 it works fine. The second I install IE7 it breaks again.

I have figured out that it has something to do with a setting somewhere in
our default user profile. The users that are having a problem with this are
user's whose profiles have been rebuilt in the past year. If i create a new
user the problem happens. I took my profile, which hasn't been rebuild in a
few years, copied it over the to the test machine, logged in, and it works
fine. I just haven't figured out what changed in our default user profile
that is causing the problem.


Thanks!!!
 

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