About a week ago Windows Media Player started closing itself as soon as I tried to play any song or video, I was busy so didn't look into it and then the developer preview of 8 came out so I upgraded to it to try it out (this isn't my main machine so don't say its my own fault for using a pre-release OS as my main :p). WMP worked again fine until a couple of hours ago and then the same problem started again.
I've done a virus scan with MSE and Malwarebytes and found nothing, deleted all of the .wmdb files to clear the library but when I played a song the same happened even with an empty library. I've also tried removing it in programs and features and then adding it again and that didn't sort it so I'm out of ideas.
I don't want to change to another media player so please don't just tell me to use something better because I like it however I do like the look of the Zune Media Player so I'm downloading it just now to try it out and if I like it I'll move to but, would be nice if I could get this fixed though.
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Mystic Mungis
About a week ago Windows Media Player started closing itself as soon as I tried to play any song or video, I was busy so didn't look into it and then the developer preview of 8 came out so I upgraded to it to try it out (this isn't my main machine so don't say its my own fault for using a pre-release OS as my main :p). WMP worked again fine until a couple of hours ago and then the same problem started again.
I've done a virus scan with MSE and Malwarebytes and found nothing, deleted all of the .wmdb files to clear the library but when I played a song the same happened even with an empty library. I've also tried removing it in programs and features and then adding it again and that didn't sort it so I'm out of ideas.
I don't want to change to another media player so please don't just tell me to use something better because I like it however I do like the look of the Zune Media Player so I'm downloading it just now to try it out and if I like it I'll move to but, would be nice if I could get this fixed though.
Thanks in advance :)
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