WinAmp 5.5.1 won't open - has stopped working

[Lawnmower233]

Originally posted by Nunzio390
Well, I only offered a way for you to circumvent your Vista problem, based on what I just discovered earlier today (if you read my other post I linked to).

I do not use Vista and have XP and therefore do not have the problem (thankfully), and as I indicated in the other thread, I will not go near Vista for at least another year, to give the MS devs time to iron out the quirks.

Well you have a right to your opinion but I just get the sense that it's more Vista bashing. Microsoft during the Beta toned down the annoyance UAC caused to the user, immensely. I think it's at a fine level now. And if think you're more experienced than the average user you can just change a value in the registry to disable those warnings on the Administrator accounts, while retaining them on the Standard accounts. It sure beats disabling UAC altogether through msconfig. I think UAC is needed for some things. Maybe not.

Anyway so apart from your own personal dislike of Vista's new way of doing things there's really no other reason not to change. Unless you have only a gig of RAM or under of course.

And WinAmp not running on Vista certainly doesn't qualify as a Vista problem or even a "quirk", at that. As I outlined above it's the exception when it comes to media players. Most don't need Admin. Things in Vista have admin if they're important; like Spybot S&D's "Immunisation" feature being able to change values in IE7's Internet Options for you or this Registry defragmenter I downloaded. Games, media players, IM clients, VoIP clients, etc. shouldn't need to be run as an admin. They should just create a service if they need to do anything out of the ordinary.

At least that's my €0.02.