Attn: microsoft headquarters...program hijacks wmp

[Richard]

www.moonlight.co.il

Download and install the Elecard video player.
Allow the program to expire naturally.
Now open a video in windows media player 9.
You get a scrolling message saying the trial period has ended and you need
to register.
They also give you a "dancing" bug to watch as well.
This program also interferes with Windows ME.
It causes numerous styles of raster lines to appear at random.
In OE6 and windows explorer, it caused an annoying expansion of the dotted
lines in the folder view pane.
One time when I clicked on the c:\ drive in explorer, I got met with dozens
of "my computer" icons where the drive information should be.
Another time it screwed up a video window in another viewer entirely.

Isn't this a violation of copyright and/or patents?
You need to look into this and stop these idiots.

 

[Larry Linson]

Many (most?) graphics programs _assume_ you'll want them to process graphics
files of the type they handle. This one is no different, in that respect,
than every graphics program I've ever loaded.

If I understand what you did, you simply let that time limit expire, but did
not uninstall it, nor reset so that Media Player should handle the file type
of your video files.

They haven't done anything that Microsoft can, or should, protest about.

Uninstall that trial version, if you can. If not, go to Tools | Folder
Options | File Types and use the Change button to reset the Opens with
option.

Oh, by the way, this newsgroup is intended for the discussion of Microsoft
Access database software. Your post would be on topic in a newsgroup devoted
to Media Player or the Windows Operating System.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP