I was refering to disabling LW's media player when I said Tools>Options>Player. Do that within LW. As far as setting up a default video app then choose whichever one you'd prefer. Do that within the desktop so to speak. Yes choose wmp but make sure you also have the 3rd party codecs & not just M$'s codecs which won't play all. If you want wmp to be default to play all video files except avi for example then choose wmp for all those formats. With VLC you can choose it just to play avi by selecting an avi file & selecting VLC as the default program. Right-click the file to find the option to open always with. Just an example.