For some reason, when I start Windows Media Player (V10) the screen that should come up seems to just go off into cyberspace. It doesn't matter if I start it by inserting a CD, clicking on it in the Programs listing or just by clicking on the icon, it does the same thing. It appears on the task bar showing me that it has loaded, but NOTHING comes up on the screen. If I click to Maximize, the listing on the task bar seems to fly off to the upper right of my screen and still nothing comes up on the screen. I tried reloading it from both the original XP (Home Edition) CD and from the SP2 CD, but no results. I also tried to restore to an earlier restore point and it SAYS nothing has changed and won't do anything. What should I do?Scan for viruses and spyware.Then if that doesn't work, UNINSTALL, reboot and reinstall it.Thanks for the quick response. I ran my Norton Antivirus and AdAware.  No viruses detected and eliminated some data miner spyware.  Otherwise appears to be clean.  Rebooted, and WMP still not working.  My next problem is how to delete the program.  My first thought was to delete it in Control Panel>Install/Remove Programs, however, WMP wasn't listed there.  I then deleted it from the Programs page (Start>Programs>...). I think all that did was remove a shortcut.  Then I tried deleting the folder through Microsoft Explorer and I get a message telling me I can't delete this program because it is being used.  Ok, so I tried just moving the folder to another "temporary" location, rebooted, and to my amazement, it had reappeared in the Programs folder again.  (Now I have the folder in 2 places and it still doesn't work.)  So I guess my next question has to be "How the heck do I uninstall this program?" :-?  HI lads,
 Greetings from Ireland, anyway, i'm new. I've a question about windows media player 10. If i click a link with a movie on the page the movie wont play. Any ideas? I'm running norton 2005. An example of a link is below.

http://www.break.com/index/familyguydoc.html

I'm not advertising the site by the way, it's just an example.

Let me know what you all think

CheersStevie,

Greetings, but you have hijacked someone else's thread. The correct thing to do is to to start a new thread with your specific issue. It gets confusing to RESPOND to more than one PERSON, even if the situations seem similar.

Thanks.  Apologies, i'll do that now.