Wednesday, March 14, 2007

how i beat vista media player 11

i got a new laptop about a month ago and it came with vista. pretty cool looking, and some of the new features make finding programs really easy, but not a huge leap in operating system technology or anything. my biggest problem with it is that 20 seconds before the end of each song in my playlist, it would skip for a couple seconds. this was driving me crazy!!!

dell: no help
ms: see dell

i finally found the solution in the microsoft support community forums here:
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.mspx

note that i found this under the main vista group, not under media player.

for those of you who may run into the same problem, the solution is pretty easy: go to control panel, click on sound (wherever that is now), find your sound device and open its properties. go to the enhancements tab and check the "disable all enhancements" checkbox. that instantly fixed my problem. such a relief! i hope someone else with this problem finds the same relief.

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