WMP 11 on vista

[Guest]

I just bought a new computer with vista home premium and WMP 11 already on
it. When I go to websites and attempt to watch movies it says a plugin is
missing, application/x-mplayer2, it then tells me that no correction can be
found and gives me the option to manually install. When I click this I get
to a site to download WMP 11 for xp. I tried running the setup files for
that, but when i did I got an error message (both times I have tried it) that
says a newer version of WMP is installed, this setup cannot be used to
install or repair your system. I just want to watch a few trailers etc, is
there anything i can do about this?

 

[kirk jim]

are you using FIREFOX??

You cannot install the xp version on Vista...

 

[Guest]

Wow, you are quick. I have tried on both explorer and firefox neither worked,
and i reallize that i can't install the xp version, i was just saying that
that is the only option I had from the websites offered as places to manually
install the plugins.

 

[kirk jim]

im not sure.. perhaps someone else can help you.. but the only way
to fix media player11 is to use the vista dvd and do a repair....

 

[Guest]

You can do what I always do when confronted by the "Media Player Extension"
download. Ignore it. My WMP 11 works perfectly fine without the extension.
The only thing I can think of is that the website uses another media player
as their default media player, thus needing the extension to play their
content on your WMP. This is only a guess, mind you. However, as I mentioned
earlier, I just ignore it and everything works fine anyway. I hope this helps
you.

 

[Rock]

I just bought a new computer with vista home premium and WMP 11 already on
it. When I go to websites and attempt to watch movies it says a plugin is
missing, application/x-mplayer2, it then tells me that no correction can
be
found and gives me the option to manually install. When I click this I
get
to a site to download WMP 11 for xp. I tried running the setup files for
that, but when i did I got an error message (both times I have tried it)
that
says a newer version of WMP is installed, this setup cannot be used to
install or repair your system. I just want to watch a few trailers etc,
is
there anything i can do about this?

You might want to post to
microsoft.public.windows.vista.music_pictures_video, and to one of the media
player newsgroups:

microsoft.public.multimedia.windows.mediaplayer
microsoft.public.windowsmedia.player

 

[zachd [MSFT]]

You can also install the ActiveX Plug-in from Firefox , which I believe the
Firefox site has links to.