Andrew
Solution was painless and simple - Thanks!
Simply re-installing Windows Media Player(11) - did it. Didn't even have to uninstall first.

I had already tried the turn down video acceleration before I posted here (so obvisouly in my case it had no affect)

Gotta Love PG Music and this forum!

Larry


Win10Pro,i9,64GB,2TBSSD+20TBHDDs,1080TI,BIAB'24,Scarlett18i8,Montage7,Fusion 8HD,QS8,Integra7,XV5080,QSR,SC-8850,SPLAT,FL21&others,Komp.14,IK suite&others, just a guitar player-AXE FX III &FM9T, FishmanTP, MIDIGuitar2, GK2/3'sw/GI20