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Sascha Benjamin Jazbec wrote:
> simply do not use Windows Media Player but any other program, like
> Winamp or the Like and set this alternate program as the default player
> and your Problem stops forever.
>
> On my older ThinkPad T23 (16MB DirectX8 Card / Vista-Basic-Mode) the
> WMP11 even dares to tell me he cannot play DVDs - Every other Player
> does play them perfectly smooth!
>
> So forget this messy program - it's all about DRM-****.
>
> On my XP Partition on the Notebook I reverted WMP11 back to WMP10, which
> runs well ( and plays DVDs, too. )
>
> Sad, this Thinkpad is full Vista-capable, just no Aero - I can live with
> that, but that such simple functions like DVD playback now require a
> Aero-compatible card is just silly and one reason for me not to buy the
> Update to Vista-Business, but stick with XP Professional on it.
>
> SBJ

Vista is just MS going through its DRM phase. Hopefully they'll get over
it soon.

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> "Travis King" <Anonymous@none.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:ulWDuS4%23GHA.3312@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> I'm complaining about it (mfpmp.exe) again. It's eating 60MB of RAM
>> and 11% of my CPU! That's terrible. How much resources and CPU is
>> mfpmp.exe eating for you guys? Why is mfpmp.exe necessary, anyway? I
>> mean, really, what does it do and what good is it? I don't see
>> mfpmp.exe when running WMP11 on XP, but I do in Vista. Anyone know?
>> Thanks.
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