Another thing I lost when upgrading my domain was my several hundred rated songs in Media Play (V9 or V10, I can't remember). I rated the songs over a period of two years or so. In the old player there was a Ratings tree node that open out to 1,2,3,4,5 stars with lists inside.
I found the old WMDB file on my old hard drive. I renamed the current one buried deep under the Users folder and tried to trick the player into using the old one with the same name. WMP V12 opens up empty, and the UI has changed utterly, leaving me hopelessly bumbling around in it trying to figure out why the library navigation tree is tiny and where all the files are. I know it's an attempted hack, but it fails confusingly and utterly. The V12 UI is a stinking incomprehensible abomination. This is just another misery I add to my whiteboard which contains a growing list of complete f**k ups following the domain changeover. I have ISAPI filters broken; domain groups being ignored; NTFS permission problems; application settings reset to defaults; SQL Server authentication problems; tedious recreation of ASP.NET apps; etc (and I've not even listed the misery my wife is having with dozens of her app settings being reset). In the last few days I've lost about 24 man-hours in unpaid time trying to get our office network back to a productive state. Is this the future of computing? I can't see it getting any better. As each year passes and I upgrade machines and networks, the apocalyptic tangle of versions, products, compatibility issues and inter-dependencies just gets worse and worse. The Windows operating systems and all of the tools, products, kits, drivers, devices and options that hang off it have passed critical mass and I'm getting radiation burns. Surely I'm not alone. At least complaining makes me feel better. Greg
