Windows media player will not open windows 10

Windows media player will not open windows 10 how to#

This problem is caused by two Windows registry entries that have become corrupted.

Windows media player will not open windows 10 how to#

For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 322756 How to back up and restore the registry in Windows

Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Important This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. PS Obviously this means I can't rip CDs either! Also I tried Microsoft's Mr Fix it but that didn't either. I also have run the Device Manager Troubleshooter for the drive and that didn't work. I followed the instructions below (from ) and deleted two files from the registry as instructed but this made no difference. all other CD/DVD functions are working, just not WM. But if I click on Windows Explorer the songs are shown (although won't play with WM). Basically if I put a music CD into my laptop drive, Windows Media player 12 not only doesn't automatically play it but when I open Windows Media no CD is recognised in the drive. I think this is a problem since I upgraded from Vista to Windows 7 but can't be sure.