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My computer was running Windows 98. I ran Windows XP Home Edition. Everything was good for a week and now Yahoo!Music won't play videos. They keep telling me to install windows media player 9 final release. What is that and do i need to reinstall windows XP. what happened???? Please help????

when i tried to install newer version of media player it told me only running windows 98 and i need to upgrade.

Answer 1

If you installed WINDOWS XP without making a separate partition on your hard drive, you have problems. You cannot have two Operating Systems (Windows 98, and Windows XP)installed on the same partition or same hard drive that has no partitions. Partition means you ran a software program that divides your hard drive into partition. Each partition is treated as a separate hard drive.

To run two or more operating systems on the same computer, each has to be installed either on separate hard drives, or separate partitions on the same hard drive.

YOU HAVE TO REINSTALL YOUR OPERATING SYSTEM/S

Boot System with WIN XP. READ THE SCREEN
Select new install. DELETE ALL PARTITIONS
Create two partitions, one = 20GB, the other the rest of the disk size. If you also want to install WINDOWS 98, Shut off your computer NOW! Take out the Windows XP disk, boot up with WIN 98 installation disk. Format NTSF and Install in 20GB partition. Install motherboard drivers and utilities, install all 98 drivers, Anti Virus and firewall.

For WIN XP, boot with WIN XP, select new install, do not delete partitions! Select larger partition, format in NTFS. Install motherboard drivers, utilities and all XP software.

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Answer 2

If you want to stop any little windows annoyances and get windows 98 completely out of the picture from sticking its noes in winXp business, you need to do a little work. So, here is what I recommend from personal experience:

1. Save your important files on a storage media like a flush drive.
2. Format your hard drive
3. Reinstall windows.
4. Go to windows updates and download any and all of them
6. Reinstall all of your programs that you need and/or like
7. Do a check disc and a defrag.
8. Get on the Internet and look for TuneUp Utilities 2006
9. Download the free trial program, familiarize yourself with it and use it to clean your registry and other things.
10. It will take you a little time but it is the only way to get rid of the old OS from sticking its ugly head into the new one.

Good luck

Answer 3

Go to Windows Update windowsupdate.microsoft.com and download Windows Media Player - you just need a newer version of the player. Nothing to worry about. :)

Answer 4

Windows media player is a program that plays video, audio, etc. Things like this are needed to play media on the internet.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/default.mspx
^You can download from there.

Answer 5

do just what i tell you.. get connected to the internet and go to microsort.com and towards the left hand side u have an option called search.. type windows media player 9. and then download the software and install it.. thats it.. and dont even bother to reinstall win xp home

Answer 6

On a Mac, shift/administration/3 takes a image of the show. in case you press shift/administration/4, you are able to click and drag over the section you choose for; the image is taken once you launch the mouse button.

Answer 7

go to

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/default.mspx

and install the latest version.

Answer 8

download and install WMP from microsoft.com