Media bar missing after installing sp2

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Troy

I recently installed sp2 and I can no longer play media
files in Internet explorer. The media bar is missing and
I cannot find a way to get it back. Tried advanced
options as well as view and no luck.
 
Internet Options/Advanced
Scroll down and look for a section called Multimedia
Click on everything except "Show mage download placeholders"
Clock OK
Close the browser and anyother programs running except antivirus.
Restart IE6 and see if it works now.

Hope this works.

I recently installed sp2 and I can no longer play media
files in Internet explorer. The media bar is missing and
I cannot find a way to get it back. Tried advanced
options as well as view and no luck.
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yea man...i had the same issue...i need to know how to get
it back? does anyone ever help on these things?
 
Troy,

<quote>
To help improve security, Media Bar has been removed from Internet Explorer
6. For this preliminary release of SP2, however, the Group Policy settings
for Media Bar have not been removed. Because Media Bar is no longer
available, these settings will not function.

Although you can no longer use Media Bar, you can listen to digital media by
downloading and using Microsoft Windows Media® Player 9 Series.

</quote>

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/deploy/relnsp2.mspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffdav/archive/0001/01/01/211492.aspx

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I recently installed sp2 and I can no longer play media
files in Internet explorer. The media bar is missing and
I cannot find a way to get it back. Tried advanced
options as well as view and no luck.
 
How to play midia
Right Click the Link you want to play.
Click on COPY SHORTCUT
Open Media player 10
Click FILE then OPEN URL
Paste link in box
MP 10 should play it.
 
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