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Media Player Hangs When Window Is Resized

Article ID: 172642

Article Last Modified on 11/15/2006

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This article was previously published under Q172642

SYMPTOMS

When you are using Media Player to play an .mpg file, if you resize the Media Player window when the file begins to be rewound automatically, Media Player may seem to stop responding (hang), or you may receive the following error message:
MCI Initialization Error

RESOLUTION

Use the Close Program dialog box to quit Media Player. To do so, follow these steps:
  1. Press CTRL+ALT+DELETE to open the Close Program dialog box.
  2. In the list of programs, click Media Player.
  3. Click End Task.
If the computer hangs after you click End Task, turn the computer off and back on to restart Windows 95.

STATUS

Microsoft is researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

Additional query words: mpeg repeat wmptop

Keywords: kberrmsg KB172642


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