From post on 12/14/2003 Media Player Problem Still having Problems... Tried the "Import" of the known good Registry backup...no help Windows 98se (Microsoft Windows 98 4.10.2222 A) AMD Athlon(tm) Processor, MMX, 3DNow, ~700MHz NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64 display card 128MB RAM Media player will not play .mpegs, .wav from my C drive ..it will not play any .mpegs,.wav from the internet, in fact it tells me that I'm NOT connected to the internet at this time....to reconnect and try again. Medai player plays in safe mode with poor quality... Tried 2 other video viewers/editors (Ulead and Irfanview) and neither one of them will load or play a .mpeg EITHER! Tried uninstall/reinstall of IE6, DirectX 9, Media Player 9, Nvidia TNT2 graphics upgrade...No help

Uninstall any WMP 7.x and up. Then associate your mp3's and wav files with media player 6.01.05 etc. (Mplayer2.exe) found at; "C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\MPLAYER2.exe" Anything above this version is a resource/memory hog and too controlling. The only thing you'll loose is the ability to have playlists.