Digital Home Thoughts: Troubleshooting Windows Media Player Error Messages

"This article includes information to help you troubleshoot the most common error messages that you might encounter when using Microsoft® Windows Media® Player. It is not a complete list of every potential error message. Although the information is written specifically to address issues with Windows Media Player 9 Series, much of the information is also applicable to earlier versions of the Player. Error messages are identified by numerical IDs, such as C00D0BC2 and 800704CF. You can determine the ID of a specific error message by clicking the More Information or Web Help button on the error message when you encounter it. The resulting page will indicate the error ID."

If you use Windows Media Player 9 for listening to music and watching videos like many Windows users, you will have no doubt run into an obscure error message at some point in time. This resource page explains what the codes are, so it may be useful to book mark. Personally, it seems that every time I get an error code and click on the "More Information" link, it simply tells me there is no further information. I don't know if the information in WMP is a duplicate of what's on this page, of if the next time I get an error I should come to this page to look it up - I'll have to wait for WMP to have some problems first. ;-)