Windows Media Player is used to play the attachments in my email but not now.

I can read the dvd and I see WMP in my programs, but not in the control panel. I now get this error message when I click on an attachment is a .wmv file... "this file has no program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the Folder Options Control Panel. " I've never had this error before. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Click on start, Set Program Access and defaults
Click on "Custom".
Select "Windows Media Player".
Click OK.

This fix media file types associations defined WMP as the default Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Desktop Experience]

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