Winamp 5.52 Released (security patch)

Lawnmower233 · 12th February 2008, 18:27

Why does WinAmp need to write to the registry?

@Omega X: Yeah that's what I was saying. After July '07 my Vista user experience required very little UAC prompts as most programs by then that would have needed Administrator privileges had services running from startup: Steam, Ad-aware 2007, Punkbuster, BitDefender, etc.

As I said in my thread, either WinAmp makes a service or it makes itself not need Administrator Privileges. Please explain to me why a media player that just keeps a library needs to edit the registry.

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12th February 2008, 18:27	#11
Lawnmower233 Banned Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Republic of Ireland Posts: 36	Why does WinAmp need to write to the registry? @Omega X: Yeah that's what I was saying. After July '07 my Vista user experience required very little UAC prompts as most programs by then that would have needed Administrator privileges had services running from startup: Steam, Ad-aware 2007, Punkbuster, BitDefender, etc. As I said in my thread, either WinAmp makes a service or it makes itself not need Administrator Privileges. Please explain to me why a media player that just keeps a library needs to edit the registry.