Scott
I have had very similar things happen and each time it has happened it's shortly after I have updated Windows.

Three times I have had to remove the updates to get it to run right again.

Don't know for sure if this is germaine to your particular problem but....go to your C drive>Windows and see if you have a bunch of files in blue that start with $uninstall....

I have manually removed those files and all the updates by clicking on them and then choosing the uninstall. I had to do that in the last couple of weeks with my laptop that was running for garbage and once I removed them all was good again.

Near as I can figure for me anyway is it is somewhere in the updates to the Windows media player that seems to be causing the problem, because once I have those removed it runs fine again without those not responding messages etc.

On the other hand my wife always takes the critical updates and says she doesn't have a problem, so go figure. However she rarely if ever use the media player etc.

If it doesn't work, you can always go back to MS and reinstall them.
Terry


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[This message has been edited by trtjazz (edited 01-14-2004).]