my system used to be stable, I use Winxp, but then installed winamp 5.0 and notice when I open a website that if the Media Library window opens to display the website of the radio station a la Club977.com style, there is another popup window that screws up my system. It takes the whole system down… anyone else noticed that. 3 times now!
Kenneth
I think the latest versions of Winamp have a few bugs. I used v3 for ages, and then a couple of months ago downloaded the latest one (5.02, my version says), and things just went up the spout / down the toilet from there. I open the program, and it takes a good couple of minutes for it to start up, and also does weird things with the media library.
It’s a decent program, though, nice bells and whistles (but missing some things that were useful - like ‘remove duplicated’ files from the playlist), and looks fairly good. I use Win 2000, though.
Edit - Just downloaded 5.03 - seems to be better. Started within seconds, and hasn’t tried to kill me yet, although it may be plotting…
Isn’t it just a ploy by Microsoft to maintain their vicelike grip with Windows Media Player? If they can allow non-Microsoft software to “crash” your computer, or perform more slowly, then Microsoft will be a natural choice.
To add some perspective, most of the applications that slow down and crash my PC (running WinXP) are those from Microsoft, with Outlook leading the pack.
Oddly enough it was Media player that was crashign my other system, Win98SE on it!
Kenneth