Re: MusicMatch 10 Challenges and mimboot.exe Question?

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From: johnf (john_f_at_bigREMOVEpond.net.au)
Date: 12/22/04


Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 18:46:36 +1100

Yes, Musicmatch was a neat little program a few years ago, but became
bloated & invasive with its later updates, so I dumped it and now use
another prog.

--
johnf
>I just download MusicMatch 10 and noticed that it put mimboot.exe in my
> startup.  Does anyone know what this does or what it is for?
>
> A BIG warning... MusicMatch 10 had all sorts of challenges.  It
> originally imported my library, but would not play.   I tried
> everything to fix the links, but to no avail.  I then deleted
> everything and tried adding the tracks back in.  It kept giving
> initializing error as if there was a problem with my external drive.  I
> tried Windows Media Player and it had no problem.  After rebooting
> twice, it finally started to add tracks.   Now MusicMatch is fighting
> with my accelerator.
> Anyone else having these type of challenges? 


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