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Re: IE7 breaks Windows Media Player streaming media

 
 
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      07-27-2009
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Brian wrote:
> We just rolled out IE7 in our office. Now nobody is able to streaming
> internet radio or streaming video from our website through windows media
> player. It is happening with both WMP 11 and WMP 9. When someone opens
> windows media player, selects Media Guide, clicks Internet Radio, and
> clicks
> listen under one of the station they get a very quick file download window
> and then WMP says it is connecting and then it locks up. If I open task
> manager wmplayer.exe is using 80% - 100% of the CPU and never responds
> again
> until I kill the process and re-open it.
>
>
> Here is the really strange part of this. Myself and 2 other admins have
> been using/test IE7 for about a year and have had zero problems. I can
> login to any of our computers with our Domain Admin account and it works
> fine. However, if i temporarly make a normal user account and local or
> domain admin they still have the problem.
>
>
> I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling IE7 and WMP. If i roll IE back
> to IE6 it works fine. The second I install IE7 it breaks again.
>
> I have figured out that it has something to do with a setting somewhere in
> our default user profile. The users that are having a problem with this
> are
> user's whose profiles have been rebuilt in the past year. If i create a
> new
> user the problem happens. I took my profile, which hasn't been rebuild in
> a
> few years, copied it over the to the test machine, logged in, and it works
> fine. I just haven't figured out what changed in our default user profile
> that is causing the problem.
>
>
> Thanks!!!


 
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