default .wav player

[Mitch]

I used to be able to simply double click a .wav file in
WinXP and have the file played. Now, it wants to open up
Windows Media Player before it will play the play the
file. If I change the association to Winamp, it still
wants to open up the app before playing the file. What
have I done? I think there used to be a small program
(Win98) that would just play the .wav file. I don't know
if I had that running or WinXP would just play the file
without opening up an app & I screwed it up. Any ideas?

[Joseph Conway \(MSFT\)]

Mplayer2 is the older version of the player. Try setting it as your default
..wav player and see if that helps.

--
Joseph W. Conway, MCSE
Windows 9x/NT/2000/2003 Server Group

Opinions expressed here are my personal opinions and are provided without
warranty.

318752 HOW TO: Install and Use the Recovery Console in Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=318752

"Mitch" > wrote in message
...
> I used to be able to simply double click a .wav file in
> WinXP and have the file played. Now, it wants to open up
> Windows Media Player before it will play the play the
> file. If I change the association to Winamp, it still
> wants to open up the app before playing the file. What
> have I done? I think there used to be a small program
> (Win98) that would just play the .wav file. I don't know
> if I had that running or WinXP would just play the file
> without opening up an app & I screwed it up. Any ideas?

[Bill Martin]

> I used to be able to simply double click a .wav file in
> WinXP and have the file played. Now, it wants to open up
> Windows Media Player before it will play the play the
> file. If I change the association to Winamp, it still
> wants to open up the app before playing the file. What
> have I done? I think there used to be a small program
> (Win98) that would just play the .wav file. I don't know
> if I had that running or WinXP would just play the file
> without opening up an app & I screwed it up. Any ideas?
>

Microsoft "improved" the system which bugs the *&^% out of me too. Even
using the old player it now still insists on popping up a window on screen -
albeit the old Media Player window which at least is faster than the new one,
and it then at least can be told to close again automatically.

All one wants sometimes is to play a short alarm sound!!

Bill