Windows media player can be downloaded from microsofts site or Windows update I think. The internet, is it dial up or highspeed? if its high speed just enable it without the login junk.... if its dial up I have no idea, full format maybe?

Gunny

I had nothing in the way of protections in place since my Norton expired in May of 2006. I bought a new monitor and went 'round and 'round in these pages about which video card to buy. I eventually took the monitor back because it was so bright that I could not read 10-point black text against a white background. I wanted Best Buy to do a virus and spyware clean-up, but they wanted $400 and two weeks to do it. I decided that was too much and took the machine back without having them fix it. I then went down the street to CompUSA to waste time and see what they had in the way of video cards. I saw nothing that was recommended by ctjoyce, so I went around the corner to pcclub and to look for a bigger power supply. While I was there, I saw the video card ct did recommend. I talked to the guys at pcclub, explaining that I wanted to run FS10 and that my machine took over 2-1/2 minutes to boot to desktop. It didn't take long to take the power supply and a video card one step higher than ct's reco off the shelf and have it signed-up for virus and spyware removal to boot. I came back the next day to get it. They told me that Free AVG and some other AVG product was all I needed. When I got home and hooked it up, my SBC Yahoo! DSL would not log me on (it didn't even recognize me) and my Windows Media Player would not launch my WMV, AVI or MPEG files. I have so little time to flunk around with this thing. I work long hours just about every day. Getting it back to pcclub and getting it fixed to my satisfaction is going to be an undertaking of biblical proportions. For now, I will just put up with it. I'll eventually get it straightened out, but I know not when...

I'm the kind of guy who has to live and learn. I have so much excrement on this machine, I really wouldn't know it if it got wiped out or not...


I have now downloaded Windows Media Player twice and allegedly installed it-- twice. The result is no joy. My files still do not play. Any ideas?

I click on the thumbnail for the file, a blue border appears around the thumbnail for the file, I get the hourglass for a second, then it goes back to the arrow, the blue border around the thumbnail goes light brown and that's it. It doesn't "launch" to the opening screen of WMP and begin playing. I get essentially nothing...