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[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

For some reason it has developed an aversion to playing video type stuff. If try to play a youtube video, or watch SKY GO, It freezes up just as the video is about to start playing. Toshiba satellite, about a year old, windows 10.
Ive done windows defender security full scan,defragmented, and disc clean up to no avail.

[Mister Rog]

So it seems that this happens for online video. Have you checked if videos on the local hard drive play ok ?

Sometimes it's the browser and the plugins. Are you using Firefox ? If so try exactly the same video but use IE or something else. If something else works ok then you need to update the browser and the plugins.

[tunnie]

Tried it in a different browser? IE/FireFox/Chrome?

[STEMO]

Wait 15 minutes, it might start playing. I was foolish enough to buy my lad a toshiba satellite for his schoolwork, it was deathly slow out of the box.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Has been fine until today. Normally run IE. Tried chrome, no different.

[Doctor Gollum]

Lady Opti has a knack for dealing with troublesome laptops... probably end up being the final solution though...

Have you cleared the cookie data recently? Might help

[amazonian]

If you have no luck with the advice on here, I can strongly recommend the guys at    www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/ 
They will fix virtualy any problem you may ever get with your PC, all done remotely and entirely FREE of charge.
A brilliant bunch of guys all as dedicated to fixing computers as you guys are to fixing Omegas.
They are very much in demand though so you may have to wait a few days for one of them to begin the fix.

 

[zirk]

Before you go any further, download The Free Version of Malwarebytes -

https://www.malwarebytes.com/mwb-download/

Once installed, update it, then run a Full scan, might take a while, ideally where possible, do the scan in Windows10 Safe Mode with Network Support.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

That did the trick. Cheers.

[STEMO]

That did the trick. Cheers.

So.....you had malware. I recommend you stop visiting those sites. 

[Mister Rog]

That did the trick. Cheers.

So.....you had malware. I recommend you stop visiting those sites. 

So which sites would you recommend   

[STEMO]

That did the trick. Cheers.

So.....you had malware. I recommend you stop visiting those sites. 

So which sites would you recommend   

OOF. 

[TheBoy]

In Windows, the CODECs are all chained together, so if one codec in the chain is broken, then the system cant play.  This is why you should *NEVER* ever install a massive number of codecs, including those gay, stupid "codec packs" on any system.

Assuming the chain itself isn't corrupted (you're pretty oppsed if it is - rebuild time), and its just the codecs themselves playing up, then its a case of uninstalling all codecs, and reinstalling the ones you want.


(A CODEC is the piece of software that Windows (be it an application, or web browser etc) uses to understand the video format, and DECode into something playable)