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From: Ace McDonut (McDonut_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/30/05 

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 07:05:03 -0800

  This has been bugging me for quite a long time. Like half the time I sit
down here and suddenly my (stupidly slow) system suddenly goes into "Windows
XP Exceptionally-Slow mode", as Media Player loves to spontaneously load up
at the worst time possible, and show me yet another stupid uselessly designed
player skin that I couldnt care less about recieving... as well as having to
explain several times to my family that some of the material being streamed
onto my screen was against my will, all thanks to the 'wonders' of Windows
Media Player.
  So after a good number of months of this real and regular agony of having
like 3-5 minutes of my time stolen and forced to watch trailers that i'd see
in the cinema or on tv anyway, I decided to finally take that step of
botheredness and take action. Another stupid trailer/skin popped up, and so I
decided to explore WMP a little to try and find some sort of magic "shut the
heck up and stop bothering me" link, which I was quite disappointed to not
find, nor anything relating to the unwilling invasion of my bandwidth or some
sort of "auto-skin option" or whatever Microsoft likes to package this kind
of stupid idea as. Upon not finding that, I clicked the troubleshooting
option instead. It seems Microsoft didnt think that unwilling invasion of
bandwidth, wasting of time, and streaming of often unsuitable content to
thousands of users' desktops (presuming they havent all switched to Linux by
now), would be perceived as any kind of problem. So, I tried links to help
from the net, and found the cleverly-designed "user friendly" links and
options rather annoying in my already irritated state, as very few links
seemed to describe my problem, and when they did they'd just give me another
eight options on how to solve problems which were quite honestly unrelated...

So yeah, is there any way to remove/disable
a) WMP
or
b) whatever's making WMP break several rules of netiquette against my
permission

honestly tried my best not to flame, but seriously this bugs me a lot (as
you can tell lol). And thanks in advance to the Microsoft enthusiast who
gladly corrects me on my preconceptions that Microsoft really does try its
best to annoy the hell out of its 'valued' customers no matter what version
of operating system, browser, media player, printer, scanner, mouse,
keyboard, or life you may happen to have at the time. And also thanks to the
Microsoft employee who will likely also correct my preconceptions of WMP and
explain why the obvious breach of netiquette is for my own good and seemed so
good during product testing.

And most of all, thanks to all the real people out there who really agree
with every word I just said, and would like to unite under one banner,
burning screenshots of BSOD's, annoying banners, software, iexplore errors
(make it useable before everybody figures out firefox, opera and the rest of
the improved products exist or you'll regret it), and surgically removing
every windows logo and error in existence. For the richest company in the
planet, I dont see the problem with developing things that work... apart from
being cheap and keeping all those assets locked away rather than using them
to improve your products and services to customers, of course.

Anyways, hope there was as little flaming there as possible, a nice simple
honest answer would be appreciated, either addressing or not addressing the
points of why I hate many microsoft products...

Thanks,

Steve <S><

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