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n°1796654
04-02-2008 at 05:00:14 AM

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EXT64 wrote :

I still love my XPs. I also can still get them here at college because they "suggest" (they won't help if Vista Screws you over) you use XP for engineering. I do plan on trying Vista out this summer ( :non: ), but that is because it is free through my college (as is XP and Office). Man, I can see why people stay here forever :lol:


I got vista through my university, but it's a european N SKU so it has no WMP or movie maker, quite a PITA, and you can't install them. I don't know why it's a european licence, I live on the other side of the world :heink:

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n°1796661
04-02-2008 at 05:52:17 AM

randomizer wrote :

I got vista through my university, but it's a european N SKU so it has no WMP or movie maker, quite a PITA, and you can't install them. I don't know why it's a european licence, I live on the other side of the world :heink:


Can not even install WMP....thats ****....


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n°1796662
04-02-2008 at 05:57:28 AM

No joke, the installer closes after a few seconds of trying to reach the first screen. I can get movie maker to install and run if I add WMVCore.dll to system32, but I can't export any videos so it's useless anyway. I haven't found a way to get WMP to install yet. There was supposed to be a "media restore pack" back in early '07 which downloaded the required .dll's from windows update when you tried to install WMP, but that no longer exists.


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n°1796665
04-02-2008 at 06:05:45 AM

ouch...was that not some kind of law suit that caused this abomination to be created...


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n°1796666
04-02-2008 at 06:07:33 AM

EU anti-trust rubbish.


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n°1796669
04-02-2008 at 06:19:33 AM

I guess they want to sell more Apple machines or make the Apple commercials seems like they make sense(you know all those....ohh we play music.....WOW).


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n°1796878
04-02-2008 at 10:10:32 PM

^ :lol:

@randomizer: Have you tried VLC Player? (not the best, but gets the job done)


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