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Hello Windows Insiders, today we’re releasing 20H2 Build 19042.388 (KB4565503) to Windows Insiders in the Beta Channel. This Cumulative Update includes quality improvements. Key changes include: We fixed an issue that might prevent you from using PowerShell to change the system locale on...

Hi guys :), I want to ask you for an advice about my Samsung Galaxy S5 phone. I have a Win 7 PC and it detects my phone automatically when I connect it with the cable. I also have an old Win XP PC with no internet connection that I use only for some old games, my XP PC can't detect my phone...

I have this past weekend lost 3/4 of the songs I had stored on my WMY. Can anyone help.

I am to my having problems when syncing Playlists in Window Media Player to my Samsung phone. The Playlist name shows u on my phone, the tracks transfer onto the phone but the playlists show as being empty. Thanks for any help in advance

I have 2 computers one is running windows 8.1 and one is running windows 7. There are no issues with the windows 8.1 one. However the Windows 7 is old and has a weak graphics card and is unable to display the wireless display. I checked online for solution but found out that it will not work...

I am unable to persuade W10 to accept VLC media player as default music/video program. Can anybody advise me? It's installed on Drive D, not the Windows Drive - I don't know if this makes any difference. (C:\ is a small SSD which I want to reserve for stuff which needs to load fast)

Hi. I am having a problem playing videos in full screen. No matter what player I use they will freeze. They play fine if they're not in full screen. They will play in full screen if I move the mouse constantly. But if I stop moving the mouse the screen freezes. The audio will still play. I have...

Hello all, I'm trying to load about 30 CD's on my WMP but every time I open WMP and then put a CD into the disk drive, I automatically get an error notice that WMP won't be able too rip some of the files and then I can't get any further. Any suggestions anyone? Thanks :)

Now that ms stopped providing metadata support for Windows media player does anyone have any registry hacks to divert to another music database (MusicBrainz)? https://www.ghacks.net/2019/01/27/changes-to-windows-media-center-and-player-metadata-service/

As of this month Microsoft has stopped supporting metadata for Windows media player on Windows 7 so can anyone confirm whether Windows 10 Windows media player still supports metadata this is CD information but names albums tracks artists etc

So I've got an old laptop with Windows 7 that I only use for Windows media player but that's now been made defunct buy Microsoft so I've upgraded to Windows 10 but it's totally knocked out my internet connection I've even tried plugging my laptop into the router by a network cable and it still...

Windows media player no longer supports meta data/album information on Windows 7 as of June 7. So I upgraded to Windows 8 and it still don't work? Anyone confirm whether wmp meta data still working on 8?

It seems that Windows media player meta tags no longer work as of the 7th of June but currently I was using Windows 7 on a vent very old machine and I did hear that it's still worked for Windows 8 and 10 so last night I upgraded to Windows 8 and the meta tags still don't work so I'm wondering...

I bought a used computer that was completely emptied of the operating system. On another computer (with Win 10 Home) I created a Windows installation media on a USB flash drive. With this USB stick I installed Windows on my computer. During or after the installation, no activation code was...

Windows made a poor choice doing away with the taskbar in windows media player. I want it back! I have looked online but the steps I found do not work. I have downloaded the WMPbandfile and extracted it but i cant seem to acess the WMP directory in program files so i can copy and paste...

Hi, I have a body cam which I use whilst on the scooter. Problem is that when I replay the files some play ok and the all of a sudden I get Windows Media Player encountered a problem while playing the file. So why is this happening ? downloaded media codexs, DivX and Xvid and installed them...

When I put a audio CD in D or L external drive I have to bring up the files and click on one of them to get it started before I can it to play. When I put the CD in drive D it Brings up the icon to either Copy or play. I double click on the icon to play it does not do anything. If I click...

I've searched everywhere and did find a couple of answers, but none of the fixes helped. I'm still having trouble getting a 2009 disc to start, it just spins and stops over and over, but never actually starts up. I have it set to Auto-Play, but it didn't help. Before I bought this software, I...

As the title states all of the videos on my computer have for some reason turned into .pptx files, even the videos of my family vacation that I transferred to my computer from my phone have for some reason become .pptx files. I have tried renaming a video and removing the '.pptx' part and it...