Re: Active Movie Window - How to eliminate?

If you look at the windowsmedia newsgroups, then "last resort" is hardly the
way to describe the majority of posts. A quick web-search of issues would
probably turn up 80% of solutions.

In the absence of any description of what you'd tried in your initial post,
I still tried to help by researching solutions. That you just blew off
without actually indicating if you'd tried any of the solutions. When I
queried this, you blew me off again, which hardly aids the process of
diagnosis.

"Joe727" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Listen Pal - I spent a couple of years on an MS newsgroup helping people
fix display problems, quite successfully, I might add. When people come
to these newsgroups it's usually a last resort or close to it. The key
words in the previous sentence are 'last resort' which means that in all
likelihood, people have already done a Google search.

You can find some of my solutions here:

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.win98.display.general/browse_frm/thread/778be97135cb6d10/1f815261df29bbb5?lnk=st&q=Joe727+aida32&rnum=6&hl=en#1f815261df29bbb5

And here:

http://groups.google.com/groups/search?hl=en&q=Joe727+aida32

Take a look at how you respond to people's questions. At best it's
useless, at worst it's condescending.

Joe

"Mike Williams" <mikew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Since you hadn't bother to state what you've tried before. I think it's
insulting to criticize people for offering previously tried solutions, or
would you prefer to *pay* for bespoke solutions??

"Joe727" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Actually, this particular post was supposed to go to another newsgroup,
and posting it here was inadvertent.

As for the multiple posts, it's annoying and insulting to have someone
simply post Googled links who thinks that actually helps. That was the
reason for the repost.

Anyway, here's what I did:

Initially, I reverted to WMP 9 and the problem was solved. Then I
decided to do this:

I uninstalled the nVidia Forceware 91.47 (WHQL) drivers for my BFG 6800
OC video card and rebooted.

Then, re-installed the nForce2 - 5.10 chipset (WHQL) drivers and
rebooted.

Re-downloaded and re-installed the nVidia Forceware 91.47 (WHQL) drivers
from nVidia and rebooted.

I downloaded WMP 10 from Windows Update, the WMDRM update, and the
security patch for WMP 10.

I Checked the box next to 'Use High Quality Mode' and the video plays in
WMP 10.

So, apparently the video drivers and/or the chipset drivers became
corrupted over the last month or so. It happens.

This leads me to conclude that video/chipset driver problems lead to the
Active Movie Window issue with WMP 10. I've been using WMP 10 since it
became available and never experienced this Active Movie Window problem
before.

Joe

"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <neil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Although you've posted this 3x now and it's getting old, perhaps it's
your turn to humour me on this :

Please could you try reinstalling DirectX 9.0c from this page :
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/default.mspx

And let us know if that has any effect on your scenario ?


To save some more round-trip time, it might also be helpful if you
could check at the website of your video card manufacturer, if you
have the absolute newest video drivers available that they supply.

Cheers - Neil


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