Thread: mfpmp.exe
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Old 10-29-2006   #5 (permalink)
Sascha Benjamin Jazbec


 
 

Re: it is wmp11 - do not use it.

I pray that Vista will be a major sales flop, that SPP shuts down legit
Vistas, that People will see their good Computers behaving slow as hell and
what else it needs to awake the customers.


"Alias~-" <notever@aolhell.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:eVGkOS5%23GHA.3456@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> 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.
>
> Alias
>>
>>
>> "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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