Showing posts with label Windows Media Player. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Windows Media Player. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 29, 2018

How do you handle the 'Server execution failed' Windows Media Player error?

When you try to play a movie using Windows Media Player, or double click a movie file with Windows Media Player as your default, you will see this error.


Serverfailed_0.png

The reason may be that the Windows Movie Player process is still active. You can see this in the Task Manager as shown.


Serverfailed_1.png

Highlight this process in Task Manager and cclick End Process.

Now if you double click Windows Media Player or a .mp4 file you should see it starting.


The same kind of problems used to happen while opening a Mozilla Browser. I have not been using the browser recently.