Have a Dell laptop running Vista and Windows Media Player 11. Our school
runs a SafariMontage video server so we can show videos over the network (not
streaming from the internet). WMP11 will not play the videos -it stops and
goes back to the beginning after a few seconds. These videos work fine on XP
computers running WMP10. How do I revert to version 10 somehow on my Vista
laptop?

Thanks.
Lynda

You don't, sorry.

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"LYoung" <LYoung@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F97D6E8C-E3BD-46A6-AA86-00F77C15EDB5@microsoft.com...
> Have a Dell laptop running Vista and Windows Media Player 11. Our school
> runs a SafariMontage video server so we can show videos over the network
> (not
> streaming from the internet). WMP11 will not play the videos -it stops
> and
> goes back to the beginning after a few seconds. These videos work fine on
> XP
> computers running WMP10. How do I revert to version 10 somehow on my
> Vista
> laptop?
>
> Thanks.
> Lynda

LYoung wrote:

> Have a Dell laptop running Vista and Windows Media Player 11. Our school
> runs a SafariMontage video server so we can show videos over the network (not
> streaming from the internet). WMP11 will not play the videos -it stops and
> goes back to the beginning after a few seconds. These videos work fine on XP
> computers running WMP10. How do I revert to version 10 somehow on my Vista
> laptop?
>
> Thanks.
> Lynda

That's a good question Lynda,
I don't think Vista will let WMP10 install
as WMP11 is already marked inside registry.

google for:
open source windows media player

there are a couple which might work for you,
also there is a vistacodec package available
which may help with other formats.

NT Canuck
'Seek and ye shall find'

you cannot do that sorry.

its not wmp11 fault...

try disabling the antivirus and firewall for a moment and try again

if it still doesnt work guess what is the problem?

VISTA ITSELF! the worse OS microsoft has ever made.



"LYoung" <LYoung@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F97D6E8C-E3BD-46A6-AA86-00F77C15EDB5@microsoft.com...
> Have a Dell laptop running Vista and Windows Media Player 11. Our school
> runs a SafariMontage video server so we can show videos over the network
> (not
> streaming from the internet). WMP11 will not play the videos -it stops
> and
> goes back to the beginning after a few seconds. These videos work fine on
> XP
> computers running WMP10. How do I revert to version 10 somehow on my
> Vista
> laptop?
>
> Thanks.
> Lynda

you might also try www.gomplayer.com


"LYoung" <LYoung@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F97D6E8C-E3BD-46A6-AA86-00F77C15EDB5@microsoft.com...
> Have a Dell laptop running Vista and Windows Media Player 11. Our school
> runs a SafariMontage video server so we can show videos over the network
> (not
> streaming from the internet). WMP11 will not play the videos -it stops
> and
> goes back to the beginning after a few seconds. These videos work fine on
> XP
> computers running WMP10. How do I revert to version 10 somehow on my
> Vista
> laptop?
>
> Thanks.
> Lynda

LYoung wrote:
> Have a Dell laptop running Vista and Windows Media Player 11. Our
school
> runs a SafariMontage video server so we can show videos over the
network (not
> streaming from the internet). WMP11 will not play the videos -it
stops and
> goes back to the beginning after a few seconds. These videos work
fine on XP
> computers running WMP10. How do I revert to version 10 somehow on my
Vista
> laptop?




http://preview.tinyurl.com/2o9b4f

or

try VLC which will play just about anything.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

that one is better,
server and client streaming ability

NT Canuck
'Seek and ye shall find'