media player missing?


  1. Posts : 63
    7 64 bit Home Premium
       #1

    media player missing?


    Hello, my media player seems to have vanished. It shows up in the program list but won't do anything. Also my real player is not working, keeps shutting down. I tried a different one, but couldn't figure out how to download from youtube. I'm a point and click kind of person. I thought I would just uninstall the media player and start over, but it seems I am not a "trusted installer." I think the machine might be right about that.
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  2. Posts : 6,668
    Windows 7 x64
       #2

    Go to programs and features. in the control panel
    choose turn windows features on or off.
    Uncheck media features okay it, let it finish, then recheck it and okay it again.
    This should effectively reinstall the media player.
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  3. Posts : 63
    7 64 bit Home Premium
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Maguscreed said:
    Go to programs and features. in the control panel
    choose turn windows features on or off.
    Uncheck media features okay it, let it finish, then recheck it and okay it again.
    This should effectively reinstall the media player.

    It didn't work, but thanks for the tip. I never used it so I don't really know when it "vanished." If the real player hadn't started acting up, I still wouldn't know.
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  4. Posts : 165
    W7x64 Ult.
       #4

    Does your event viewer work? If it doesn't you may have a permissions error. That's what cashed in my WMC....
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  5. Posts : 6,668
    Windows 7 x64
       #5

    I didn't realize anyone still used realplayer.
    Thought it fell out of favor years ago.
    I use VLC myself, don't really like WMP
    VideoLAN - VLC media player, Open Source video framework for every OS!
    It plays just about everything and doesn't require codecs.
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