The Last Straw

I couldn't get WMP 9.0 + whatever the latest downloads
were, to play perfectly legal original CD's that run
everywhere else. They even run fine using the CD player
in acccessories on the same machine, without rebooting or
anything.

Or at least they used to. In disgust I delated the media
player and deleted the media player in the trash bin.

It wasn't until I rebooted and saw the NTLDR not found
message that I vaguely recalled something about "you can't
uninstall blah blah blah" I'll give my Norton Restore
disks a shot. The was no warning. I have faithfully
downloaded every patch immediately, I have updated Norton
daily. I can do no more, except go swimming with the
flightless denizens of the South Pole.

This was the last straw, this message is being sent from a
friend's machine. Should MS realize what they've done and
wish to make amends, I can be reached at
or area code 530, phone 277 followed by
3456. Otherwise it's one more iron fastener in the wooden
container of Microsoft's remains.

regards,

Doug Keachie

 

Listen here, retard;
By "deleting media player in the trash bin", you ended
up trashing your Operating System. Also, you win the

Retard Jack-Off Prize.


P.S. It ain't Microsoft's fault- its yours |!!!|

 

Note that WMP has no concept of "legal" CDs. A CD to it is just something
with data on it, and WMP can make no judgments upon the content of the CD.
Thus Daft Punk's commercial _Discovery_ CD is functionally equivalent to my
personally produced/recorded The Zach Robinson's _Kate_ album. It is
completely impossible for WMP to make a value judgment upon whether the CD
is rippable or not.

If you're having troubles playing CDs, it has nothing to do with "legal"
(that's not even a concept during WMP's CD playback) and everything to do
with some sort of CD driver failure. Since the other CD Player works, it
sounds like a failure with the CD driver's digital support, which WMP
uniquely uses and CD Player does not.
http://www.nwlink.com/~zachd/pss/pss.html#usedma

Yeah, that's not a great choice with any application on your system ever.
But while it's inadvisable to do that with WMP, it's not deadly.

Well, first off, penguins rock, so you're not in terrible shape there.
Second off, WMP's deletion could not possibly have caused an NTLDR message.
Stomping on WMP just leaves your system-once-running in a quirky inadvisable
state. NTLDR is in no way reliant on WMP, so the association of the
deletion of WMP to a failure with NTLDR is inaccurate.

Respectfully, I know WMP (or at least most of it), and whatever problem
you're dealing with currently in regards to NTLDR has nothing to do with
WMP. I could try to help you troubleshoot the WMP/CD problems, but the
NTLDR issues is most definitely not WMP. For help with the NTLDR issues,
you'd need to talk to non-WMP MS support.

-Zach