Windows media player 11 included in vista wont Stream internet Audio and Videos

Windows Media Player 11 wont stream internet Audio and videos
Article by: Ringo Paul Callado

In the event that your windows media player 11 all of a sudden doesnt play or stream online videos and audio. Do not be alarmed, you are just one of the lucky few to encounter one of the media player bug. Unfortunately for Vista the mms protocol is deprecated and not handled. Also microsoft havent written any update for the IIS dependency conflict that media player services and IIS encounters. The fastest solution for media player streaming errors is to make media player use the port 1755 for streaming and live feed in network settings of media player and dedicate IIS to port 80. Another solution is to reset the Digital Rights Management or DRM of windows media, you can google on how to reset the DRM of windows media manually since you need to purchase from microsoft the tool to reset the DRM which was previously free under KB830114 or you can download it from my online repository
http://www.4shared.com/file/71381236/32dafc4a/DRM_reset.html - This DRM reset tool is a custom tool created by napster, it works for windows media player 8, 9, 10 and 11.

Another step is to rename the folder of windows media player(11.0) under the users folder. In vista you can find the windows media player folder under the root drive\users\username\appdata\local\microsoft. You will need to enable hidden files and hidden system files view on folder options to browse the folder through explorer or you can manually browse it through command.
One final step is to delete 2 files(WMSDKNS.DTD and WMSDKNS.xml) inside the media player folder(11.0).

This troubleshooting will work for media player 10.0 and 11.0 installed on windows xp

For older media player troubleshooting visit - http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html#drm

Disclaimer: Windows media player 11 is a component of windows vista. It cannot be uninstalled and reinstalled automatically through the add/remove programs. Troubleshooting steps are based from experience and research. I will not be held liable for any system crashes or errors resulting from usage of the said steps. Use this tool - www.google.com - if you need additional information.