War on My Desktop

But for all the things that are nice, there are several things that are annoying as hell. I tried many photo management programs for Windows for my parents to use. I finally got what was supposed to be one of the best, but it's just adequate and still not terribly easy to use. I really was getting sick of the media player war on my desktop. I had finally decided to buy one of the "deluxe" versions of a player to just get it to quit bugging me and be able to rip good MP3s. So I got a good deal on MusicMatch. I was trying to rip a CD, so I insert the disc, MusicMatch starts to look up the CD track info, and then Real Player leaps in front wanting to play the CD I had just put in. I didn't recall changing my preferred CD player program from MusicMatch to anything else, but apparently Real Player had. So it tries to look up the CD info as well, grabs the CD resource, MusicMatch complains it can no longer access the CD, then Real Player crashes and locks up the machine. But hey, at least Windows gives you the choice of several total crap media players to choose from, unlike other less popular operating systems. Let's not also forget it has a better selection of OS fixit, anti-virus and anti-spyware as well.

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