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RESOLVED via a system rebuild. No clue as to why it was failing. Windows 10 PRO. AutoPlay isn't working in Windows 10. The SETTINGS|DEVICES menu has it turned ON. In Control Panel, it's turned on and configured to PLAY a CD. It's not disabled in the Group Policy editor. Neither of the two...

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Hi. I'm trying to wake my win 7 pc from sleep (not from hibernation) using task scheduler but I'm having some problems. The pc does not wake up. I have set a task that has an action to starts cmd.exe and argument is "/c "exit"". Windows runs as a shell and apparently running windows as a shell...

I have not been able to load my cd's onto windows media player in windows 10. There is no "rip" feature. I also tried downloading music from me smartphone, and that does not work either. It seems like I have to buy an app in order to load cd's that I've already paid for. If this is true...

I have windows 10, and for some reason I can't play midis. Everytime I want to play a midi, it says "Windows Media Player cannot play the file because there is a problem with your sound device. There might not be a sound device installed on your computer, it might be in use by another program...

Hi Now that I have Windows 10 installed out of the Insider Program, I've found one problem that I can't find a solution for. This isn't a major deal, but I did have this working in the previous install. I want to set WinAmp as my default music player as I did in my last install. The problem...

After I updated to Windows 10 from Windows 7 today, my Windows media player won't work. It doesn't play any file (.mp3, .mp4, .avi). Everything was fine before the update. Any help would be appreciated.

Hello, I have a problem with the icons of avi files, that looks for me like the basic ico.icon when no file is associated. The file itself is associated to Media Player Classic and doubleclicking it starts also the file with Media Player Classic I tried deleting iconcache.db and changing the...

I have deleted all Media Player files from the registry but, I cannot delete the actual Windows Media Player directory (folder). This folder is NOT in the registry. Help PLEASE!!!

When I upgrade to Win 10, if I do, I am informed I will lose WMC but will have a dvd app from Windows. Is this app one that will play dvds like the WMVC did? I ask because I have various extensions with different discs and WMC played them all. I tried VLC but found it confusing. I guess my point...

It is important to Microsoft that developers can leverage open-source software when building apps for Windows. As part of this effort we’re very pleased to announce FFmpeg support for Window 8.1, Windows Phone 8.1, and Windows 10 applications. What is FFmpeg? FFmpeg is a free, open-source...

I just received in my email (I am using the standard W10 app) the wellknown "Someone shared a video with you on Vimeo" message. Now I am wondering what I have to install and/or set to view it. Installing VLC and silverlight is not enough. Has any one fixed this already?

Hi That's my question, I have a Cortana playlist. I've been trying to put music in it for weeks, everything I do fails. Somehow some music I downloaded from Itunes ended up in the playlist, but I don't know how. I want to add more music to the list, but everytime I do it want's me to save...

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Okay, since there are many questions on this topic, none exactly the same as mine, I'd like to make myself perfectly clear. I know about Default Programs, and I know about Autoplay settings in the Control Panel. What I want to achieve is use Media Player Classic (comes with the K-Lite codec...

I have a large number of video files in a folder but I need to put them into individual folders so I can use my media players jukebox function, anyone have a programme that could do this? FOUND THE ANSWER; PLEASE CLOSE THIS THREAD.

I have a YouTube channel and I recorded some videos on my iPhone 5c and I imported them to my computer and they crash on everything apart from Quicktime Player. When I click on the video itself it crashed Windows Explorer, when I open with Media Player that crashes. Sony vegas = crashes...

When watching a movie in Windows Media Player, every five seconds or so my FPS will drop significantly, both audio and video, for about a second. It steadily happens about every 5-6 seconds. Please help me out here, it's honestly making it really difficult to enjoy my movies.

Hi I am trying to download a video file off of a cell phone camcorder. When I transfer it to my computer and run it in media player (Win 8.1) all I get is the video. It plays off the phone audio/video but only video on my computer. The phone is a 3gp file. I think that it ran off of my old...