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There are two Microsoft Windows Media Player installations: a full installation and a core installation. The full installation contains all the codecs that Microsoft is licensed to provide, but it is large and takes a relatively long time to download. The core installation contains a minimal set of codecs and can be loaded much more quickly. The following sections list the codecs that are part of each installation. If you are not sure that a client computer has the necessary codec to render an .asf file or ASF stream, you can use the Microsoft ActiveX codebase feature. This forces a Web page to check whether the client computer contains the codecs necessary to play the .asf file or ASF stream.