windows media player wont play videos

[vpu3]

my windows media player wont play videos. It just nearly freezes the computer. What is the problem?

 

[zephead]

your post was way too vague. you'll need to provide detailed and correct information about your system before anyone can help you here. here's a few questions to get you started?

do you have any functioning antivirus or other protective software? what version of windows do you have, and what service pack are you up to? what version of windows media player do you have? what type of video are you trying to play?

 

[vpu3]

wmp 9 or 10 system mechanic antivirus and anti hacker. An pci express card.
windows xp

 

[Andy44409]

i have the same problem ive just replaced my hard drive and reinstalled windows xp pro and my media player wont play videos .
It works fine but obviously no video till the proper codecs are installed then after that everytime i try to play any type of video file on any media player or dvd it just locks up my pc and stops responding.
Untill the reinstall it worked fine and i have used the same codec pack from the original install i.e ace mega codecs pro thats works perfectly on every other pc ive got
hope you can help on this matter
thx andy

main media player is windows media player 11
secondary is winamp/divx player and power dvd
antivirus is avast and standard windows firewall
nothing else running at the time

pc is 1700 celeron
1gig ram
128 meg nvidea 6800
soundmax onboard audio
drive 0 256 gigs(220 free)
drive 1 40 gig(music storage)

 

[tweakboy]

Install K Lite codec pack,, should do it for you,

 

[zephead]

did you remember to reinstall all of your drivers when you reinstalled windows?