Windows Media Player Cannot find an Intetnet Connection

[bkuiken]

Hi guys,

I am having a little problem here. I just updated internet explorer to
beta 7 and updated Windows Media Player (WMP) to version 11. Now WMP
and explorer are not very cooperative. WMP does not recognize an
internet connection. Therefore I unable to stream anything! I checked
out some troubleshooting that windows provided, but was left without a
solid solution. I even uninstalled then reinstalled older versions of
media player, but this really seams to be a lingering problem for me.
Does anyone know why WMP is being so difficult? And more importantly,
what can I do to fix this.


Thanks,
Ben

 

[Malke]

Hi guys,

I am having a little problem here. I just updated internet explorer to
beta 7 and updated Windows Media Player (WMP) to version 11. Now WMP
and explorer are not very cooperative. WMP does not recognize an
internet connection. Therefore I unable to stream anything! I checked
out some troubleshooting that windows provided, but was left without a
solid solution. I even uninstalled then reinstalled older versions of
media player, but this really seams to be a lingering problem for me.
Does anyone know why WMP is being so difficult? And more importantly,
what can I do to fix this.

You're running two beta programs and you want to know why something
doesn't work? "Beta" means software that isn't finished yet and is
still in the bug-checking phase. It is best practice to *not* run beta
software on production machines or on any machine which you are
unwilling to wipe.

And no, I'm sorry that I don't have any answers for you. You should post
questions about the beta IE7 here:

microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general

Here's a newsgroup for Windows Media Player. I don't know if a special
newsgroup was set up for the beta, but if there was I'm sure the
regulars in the Media Player newsgroup will know:

microsoft.public.windowsmedia.player

Malke