Over the last few weeks i have been passively watching a (mostly) quiet battle taking place on my desktop.
For no particularly good reason I decided to install Windows Media Player, Winamp, _and_ Real Audio One. I think i was trying to watch pirated copies of southpark without loosing my cool 'hand-written' winamp skin for playing mp3s. (http://www.winamp.com/skins/detail.jhtml?componentId=49837) Ever since then, whenever i opened any type of media file, one of those three apps would pop up, and shouting out with a 'ding' and a dialog box that it was no longer the default app for that file type. Not too unusual. i would just choose 'no don't make yourself the default type' and 'don't check in the future'. It never seemed to end though. Sometimes the battle would really heat up, and i could watch the icon changing back and forth from the winamp lightning bolt to the realaudo 'R'. Flashing back and forth as one app or the other took the next trench. Sometimes there would be a 2 way standoff where half the icons were one app, and the other half another. Then suddenly about a week ago, an uneasy truce broke out across the desktop. The files weren't associated with _any_ media player, and had the dull unknown filetype icon. Some hawkish library thinking it was winning, or perhaps in a desparate attempt to hang on, had set off some doomsday code, wiping out my mp3 file associations all together. I tried to manually associate mp3's with winamp, but it didn't do any good, devastated from it's many battles, it couldn't even lift it's head to recieve the coveted registry entry. All that time spent 'monetizing' my desktop, and they end up shooting each other and falling over dead. Man Windows is fucked up. -Lkb _______________________________________________ Bits mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sugoi.org/mailman/listinfo/bits
