Re-installing WMP from OEM disk

[Doug]

Pretty basic, I know...newby. My WMP stopped saving files. "Save as...", choose destination folder, dialog box scrolls, nothing saved in folder. It was suggested that I reinstall WMP from my OEM disk, but I didn't see any intuitive way to get there. Wh
ere is it on the disk and how do I get all the files to reinstall. Should I also uninstall the existing WMP first...but how? Will Windows recognize that a file is missing or corrupted and only reinstall that file? Or, as an alternative, how do I get jus
t WMP to start saving...has a file been corrupted, as it worked fine for a couple of months. Aggravating! Thanks all.

[Sharon F]

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 09:41:07 -0800, Doug wrote:

> Pretty basic, I know...newby. My WMP stopped saving files. "Save
> as...", choose destination folder, dialog box scrolls, nothing saved in
> folder. It was suggested that I reinstall WMP from my OEM disk, but I
> didn't see any intuitive way to get there. Where is it on the disk and
> how do I get all the files to reinstall. Should I also uninstall the
> existing WMP first...but how? Will Windows recognize that a file is
> missing or corrupted and only reinstall that file? Or, as an
> alternative, how do I get just WMP to start saving...has a file been
> corrupted, as it worked fine for a couple of months. Aggravating!
> Thanks all.

Doug, what files are you trying to save? A lot of sites now stream their
multimedia content and you can't save it.

Can't tell from your description if you've lost the ability to save or have
lost the folder that you normally save to? You can select any folder that
you want and it can be customized as a multimedia folder.

Also, there is a Windows Media Player group in the MS newsgroups where you
should ask these questions at:

http://support.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx?NewsGroup=microsoft.public.windowsmed ia.player&SLCID=US&ICP=GSS3&sd=GN&id=fh;en-us;newsgroups


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Sharon F
MS-MVP ~ Windows XP Shell/User