A friend of mine recently hooked up his computer and decided to use Mozilla Firefox as his browser instead if IE. Originally, Windows Media Player was his default audio and video player, but then he downloaded Quicktime in order to view another video. Now his computer will only allow Quicktime to play all his media.
Because he uses Firefox, clicking on TOOLs and then OPTIONS does not access the 'files' option (as it does with IE).
How can I fix this so WMP will be the default?
Thanks!
Hmm... that's odd... I've always hated Apple and their damn Quicktime format. It invades your computer with IPod sh**.
Anyway, generally quicktime only plays if the video is in quicktime format. I think the problem may lie in WMP.
Open up WMP and go to Tools>Options. Hit 'file types' and hit the button 'select all'. When your friend installed quicktime, he probably also told his computer to use quicktime with all video types.
Also, check for the extra crap quicktime installs. Something about Ipods and whatnot. We shouldn't have to stand for this from a corporation.
A friend of mine recently hooked up his computer and decided to use Mozilla Firefox as his browser instead if IE. Originally, Windows Media Player was his default audio and video player, but then he downloaded Quicktime in order to view another video. Now his computer will only allow Quicktime to play all his media.
Because he uses Firefox, clicking on TOOLs and then OPTIONS does not access the 'files' option (as it does with IE).
How can I fix this so WMP will be the default?
Thanks!
You would probaly get more response in the web browser section
You would probaly get more response in the web browser section
Not while I'm f***ing up the system! Bwahahaha! :mrgreen:
I assume you're using windows xp ........
1)Go to control panel ... add/remove components ... click the Set program access and defaults tab ... click custom ... and set your system to use windows media player as your default media player.
2) Do what kintak said..
I tried everything you guys suggested, but still no luck. In fact, I uninstalled Quicktime, clicked on WMP as my default media player, and now whenever I try to play an audio or video file, I get an error message saying there is a "problem with the Quicktime plug-in".
How can I simply get back to using WMP?
Thanks again.
Do you use quicktime?? if not just uninstall it ...
if yes then try to find the option in quicktime that it doesnot automatically become your default player again..
Actually I've been having plugin problems with Firefox too. It won't use the newer WMP10 plugin, and instead uses a very old one. While I havn't been able to figure out how to fix it, there is an extension to get around it.
Try this extension and see how it goes:
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=446
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