[gui-talk] winamp 5.5

[wcmerritt at gmail.com]

I believe you're talking about the "classic" option. You can also
elect not to install the visualizations, which are for those light
dependent sighted folk. I think that if you uncheck visualizations,
then classic will already be selected when that question comes up
later.

Wayne

On 1/19/09, albert griffith <albertgriffith at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I use the same version without difficulty.  However, it asks you to install
> a remote component, a tool bar, agent, and an advertisment for Emusic.  You
> need to decline all of these offers.  It may be easier if you just
> uninstalled the program, deleted the Winamp files from programs and beegan
> again.  You also will want to select the installation method that gives you
> the most control.  I just can't think of the name of it right now but you
> will when you see it in the installation options.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of tribble
> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 6:27 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of NFBnet GUI-TALK Mailing List
> Subject: [gui-talk] winamp 5.5
>
> For those audiophiles on the list, I just purchased winamp 5541pro to get
> rid of the annoying little message asking if I wanted to upgrade every time
> I played a song.
> I tried running it and while it played the song I selected, I discovered I
> could not exit the application by hitting alt+F4. I tried a number of things
>
> to get rid of the process and finally resorted to using the task manager and
>
> hitting end task.  This completely hosed my system -- everything froze -- no
>
> sounds played, even system sounds, and since I had no idea what was
> happening without seeing the screen, I did a hard reset.
> Now things are back running, but I'm afraid of listening to any music.
> Did I make a mistake buying this thing? Is it known to be inaccessible? If
> so, I wonder if I could get my money back.
> In any event, I need to reassign all the file associations if I don't want
> this winamp rearing its ugly head every time I need a media player.
> Any help is grreatly appreciated!
> I set it up with classic skin and installed everything except some agent
> that I didn't quite know about, as I didn't want an agent cluttering my
> startup.
> I hope I can use this thing.  If I get it running I'll tell the list.
> TIA
> --le
>
>
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