I am running vista on a brand new asus laptop. It will not play any dvd, cd, mp3, etc. I have had this problem before and have reinstalled vista several times. Everything was playing fine until 2 days ago and now it won't do anything. There is no error message only on wmp when I attempt to play an mp3 it will say:

Windows Media Player cannot access the file. The file might be in use, you might not have access to the computer where the file is stored, or your proxy settings might not be correct.

Can someone please help me? Reinstalling is such a hassle..not to mention I keep losing all info and programs.

It also seems to have networking problems simultaneously. It automatically accesses a network, but I cannot open to see any networks..my connection status just says "unknown" and "server execution failed".