Small prob someone may be able help me sort

gus

Since i got the ADSL on i have not been able to download any music/vids & i just get this msg. I assume there is some new setting i need to adjust as im certainly on the net but i think this msg is lingering from when i was on dial-up a few days ago.

Anyone got any ideas ?

Eric&Susan

Hey Gus--


I'm really no good at this but try going under TOOLS then OPTIONS in media player and checking the settings. There is one for connect to the internet, don't know if that has to be clicked or not. I have a cable modem and mine is not checked but my WMP still works fine, maybe it's different for DSL

Hope this helps,

Eric

ajgauthier

sounds like a firewall problem...like you haven't let WMP have access to the internet. Check your provider's firewall settings and see. Sometimes I go uber-security and don't let anything talk to the internet and some media programs will show that error if it's trying to get an update or something.

Otherwise - you can always reinstall WMP as a last resort. Not sure if you will lose any data though.

good luck :-)
Adrienne

Humungus wrote:

Since i got the ADSL on i have not been able to download any music/vids & i just get this msg. I assume there is some new setting i need to adjust as im certainly on the net but i think this msg is lingering from when i was on dial-up a few days ago.

Anyone got any ideas ?

gus

Thanks guys...tried the new version (10) of windows player but to no avail so i d/loaded realplayer & it seems to have done the trick...

Gus