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<blockquote data-quote="chrbyr" data-source="post: 1367892" data-attributes="member: 213134"><p>Thanks to you both for your replies. My apologies I meant to refer to .wmv files not .wms! I was intending to use VLC even before erikfig suggested it as I have found that it plays the .MTS video files generated by my Panasonic Lumix TZ10 where I have had problems before I found VLC</p><p></p><p>I tried right clicking on a .wmv file but there was no option Get Info in the list which appeared, just Open With and an arrow which opens up the possibilities including VLC. I've been there before but it only offers a one-off solution and I wanted a permanent fix. Do you have any other ideas as to how I could achieve it?</p><p></p><p>I wish I had used something other than Parallels - I find it irritatingly slow and intrusive, at times while it's loading it freezes everything else and when it's loaded it seems to use the processor even when I'm not doing anything with it. I tried their techies who suggested that I uninstall Norton and install Kaspersky which I did but it doesn't appear to have made any difference. Fortunately I only use it for a couple of old Windows programs and Excel with macros where Mac offers no alternative/goes ape if I try to use them so the irritation is reasonably short-lived and I switch it off as soon as I am done</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chrbyr, post: 1367892, member: 213134"] Thanks to you both for your replies. My apologies I meant to refer to .wmv files not .wms! I was intending to use VLC even before erikfig suggested it as I have found that it plays the .MTS video files generated by my Panasonic Lumix TZ10 where I have had problems before I found VLC I tried right clicking on a .wmv file but there was no option Get Info in the list which appeared, just Open With and an arrow which opens up the possibilities including VLC. I've been there before but it only offers a one-off solution and I wanted a permanent fix. Do you have any other ideas as to how I could achieve it? I wish I had used something other than Parallels - I find it irritatingly slow and intrusive, at times while it's loading it freezes everything else and when it's loaded it seems to use the processor even when I'm not doing anything with it. I tried their techies who suggested that I uninstall Norton and install Kaspersky which I did but it doesn't appear to have made any difference. Fortunately I only use it for a couple of old Windows programs and Excel with macros where Mac offers no alternative/goes ape if I try to use them so the irritation is reasonably short-lived and I switch it off as soon as I am done [/QUOTE]
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