im having problems with my pc. well my problem is that now everytime i download something and try to run it on my windows media player the screen turns a transparent 300x300 resolution and there is basically nothing i can do other than restart it. does anyone know whats going on, and even better does anyone know how to fix it?

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Same here
If you use the 4.8 version it will
Try a different one

can anyone elaborate?

it just sucks that i cant view anything to see if its corrupt or not. i was able to do it before but just cant figure it out now

this is getting very rediculous, ive had to reformat my software (not destructive) because of this it got stuck and i had to do a cold shut down. when i booted up again all i got was that there was an error shutting down. it gave me some options, i tried all of them and nothing. so finally i was left with no choice but to reformat. and its starting again. just yesterday it happened again and i got all these weird looking blocks on my screen. wth i guess im just gonna get rid of this thing its not even working anymore anyway. and no help to top it off LOL wow this blows

It might be a graphics card issue; see General Windows sticky & check the blank screen issue. Else try the Beta LW 4.9.1

It might be a codec issue. Free-Codecs.com

no still not working. i took a pic with my digital camera so u can see how it looks. when i press to restart it momentarily goes back to normal





http://img82.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hpim01613uf.jpg

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Try a different player such as VLC: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ (choose nearest mirror site) & if it doesn't occur with VLC then it looks like a WMP issue. VLC makes a good backup player anyway b/c it has its own internal codecs. Here's what it can play http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html

how do i make it so that when i want to preview the video it opens this player instead of the wmp?