Up until recently I could go onto any web site and click on links to mpeg video clips and they would open in media player, now I get the standard 'Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage' message. I dont want to go to a web page, I just want to view the mpeg clip. The only thing I have done recently that I think could affect this is installing i-tunes/quick time. When I tried firefox the video clips opened up with quick time, I uninstalled quick time and now they open in media player, but still no luck in IE7. I have tried the default program settings and file associations but still no good. Can anyone point me in the right direction here? I have been using IE7 and WMP11 for ages now, the sites have been fine until yesterday. Also in case it matters, I am using Vista. I don’t really want to revert to IE6 or use firefox as I much prefer IE7.

I had the same problem. You need to reinstall IE7 and after that resinstall WMP11 because Quick Time changes files and does not put them back when its uninstalled.

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