“Windows Media Player Cannot Play The File” Error
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You play a video in Microsoft Windows Media Player in a multiple-monitor configuration. Then, you switch to a different logged-on user account by using the fast user switching (FUS) feature in Microsoft Windows XP. When you switch back to the original user account and try to restart the video, you experience one of the following problems:
- You may receive the following error message:
Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The player might not support the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the file. 0xC00D1100 - Windows Media Player does nothing at all…
To work around this problem, exit and then restart Windows Media Player.
[Continue reading Microsoft Knowledge Base article 904550]
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“Windows Media Player Cannot Play The File” Error ~ Windows Fanatics
October 8th, 2006
at 1:26pm
[…] “Windows Media Player Cannot Play The File” Error […]
John
August 11th, 2007
at 8:37pm
Error message: “Windows Media Player cannot play the file. If the file is located on the Internet, connect to the Internet. If the file is located on a removable storage card, insert the storage card.”
When this message is received, you can accomplish the following. (What was shown on Microsoft’s website-applies to previous versions). First, download Windows Media Player ver. 11. Go through the prompts to download and run it. Then, click the bottom of the ‘Now Playing’ button for a drop down menu. In that menu, select Plug Ins, and Options. In the options window, select the Player tab, and check the item Connect to the Internet (Overrides other commands) and OK. You’re there! This is not the steps listed on Microsoft’s fix.
Daveyboy
November 17th, 2007
at 2:16pm
This was just what I needed. Thank you, John!
Rufi
April 20th, 2008
at 10:11pm
Windows Media Player cannot play the file. If the file is located on the Internet, connect to the Internet. If the file is located a removable storage card, insert the storage card.