Windows Media Player is an excellent application that can allow you to play your favorite music, watch your favorite video clips and much more exciting media entertainment. At your fingertips, Windows Media Player offers you the ability to play, record and transfer music files, listen to live streaming video and audio files and watch and download your favorite video clips. It is a fun and advanced application that allows you to enjoy all of your favorite media all in one place.

Of course there are problems and errors that can occur with Windows Media Player, and there are a lot of errors that can occur with running the program, installing Windows Media Player, opening Windows Media Player and along the way when you are trying to transfer audio or video files and burn CD’s or sync music to a portable device. There are some things that you can do to help prevent Windows Media Player errors from occurring, and some ways that you can fix the errors when they occur on your computer.

One of the most common problems that occur with Windows Media Player is not having the most current version available and installed on your computer. Windows Media Player is updated on a regular basis and there are newer versions that come out and are available for download for free to your computer to replace the older versions.  A lot of people are not aware that if you do not have the most recent version of the application up and running on your computer, there may be a lot of different types of Media files that you are not able to open and run properly.

This can be prevented by doing regular maintenance on your computer and cleaning up your Windows Registry and also by downloading the newest version when it is available. A lot of internet sites that you go to in order to download Media files may prompt you to make sure that you have the most recent version of Windows Media Player installed and running on your computer. You may need to adjust your security settings on your computer to make sure that you are able to go to the website to download the newest version of Windows Media Player.

Another problem that could cause you Media Player errors is if you are trying to open and run audio or video clips that do not have the right file extensions or are not compatible with Windows Media Player. You need to make sure that the files you are trying to open and play are not restricted by copyrights or other security violations that will not allow you to play them. Be sure that you remove any older versions of Windows Media Player on your computer before you attempt to run the latest version of Media Player when you download it to make sure that you are not going to get more errors.

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