🚀 go-pugleaf

you ask some valid points about too many cooks spoiling the broth. I was
wondering in all you playing, did you discover how to make the RemoteCenter the
default DVD player?

Bubba Harper wrote:

> I'm sure I'm not the first person to complain about this, but the threads
> only go back so far and I cna't find any references to it anywhere. I just
> rebuilt my system with these specs:
>
> PIII 850
> Tyan Tiger 100 motherboard
> 512 Meg Ram
> Diamond Viper 550 video Card
> HP9310 CDRW
> Creative Encore 12X w/DXR3 card
> Soundblaster Live! Platinum 5.1 with LiveDrive II
> Intel Ethernet card
>
> Everything is in working order and I couldn't be happier with the
> configuration! The DXR3 video leaves something to be desired, and I'm
> interested in finding out more about the H+ drivers that everyone is talking
> about, but will read for more information on that. So what am I complaining
> about? Let's see, since installing the software that comes with all of my
> wonderful toys, I've got about fifty creative programs running in the
> background and popping up all over the place and fighting with each other
> and with Windoze as to who is going to play what! I upgraded the remote
> manager, and now all of a sudden I have this OnScreen remote that I have to
> disable after every reboot! What the hell is this for? It's a graphical
> representation of the remote and functions like the remote but I have the
> remote so why put it on the screen, besides, if I'm sitting at my computer
> why do I need the remote when everything is but a mouse click away in the
> appropriate areas. How can I disable this permanently? That and every time I
> put an audio CD into a drive, the deluxe CD player pops up, the Playcenter
> player pops up, and then the remote player wants to play it also! My
> computer is starting to remind me of our Federal government! While everyone
> hates Mickey Soft, You have to give them credit for having integration down
> pat! Creative, are you listening? Why are you giving me so many players and
> hogging all my resources with your little monitoring programs and stuff. I'm
> so over all of this system tray stuff. I don't even load my Anti virus Auto
> protect anymore. If I let every little monitoring program run on all the
> software I have installed, I end up with 65% resources to start with! By the
> time I load one program, it's down to 50%! Okay, so here's the scoop. I like
> the remotecenter, but it doesn't have the CDDB capability. That and the fact
> that the minute I start an Audio CD, Creative thinks that I want to watch
> their goofy little visualization while it's playing and automatically full
> screens my desktop. I can't find out how to disable that. All I can find is
> I have to go to the option of Switch back to desktop everytime! What a pain!
> I haven't found out how to turn it off in MS's media player but when I do,
> I'm turning it off there also. If I'm listening to a cd on my computer, it's
> usually when I want to do something else on there and don't have time to
> watch the pretty colors, if I'm not on the computer and just using it as a
> player, the last thing I'm doing is looking at the pretty colors! I feel
> like I've been thrown back into the sixties and forced on bad acid trips!
> Next is this disk detector stuff. It's built into windoze, why does creative
> think they need to reinvent it? Why not play nicely together and just
> integrate into Windows with file associations? Okay, I know how to disable
> Audio HQ from starting up, but wouldn't it be easier to integrate that
> control into windows volume control without running another six applets?
> Nice little buttons on the Audio properties like the advanced settings. I
> don't use my EAX settings when I'm listening to music so I had to unload the
> autoEAX that creative tried to load also. I love it in the games but very
> seldom am I sitting at my computer trying to recreate a concert hall! Not
> saying it's not fun at times to play with but usually, it's the last thing I
> think about (usually I'm sitting there in my financial program trying to
> figure out how much money I've spent on this stuff!). Okay, whenever I put a
> DVD into the drive, I have two creative programs trying to decide which is
> going to play it. Disc detector detects it and tries to play one program and
> the DVD player that came with the drive wants to play it also, and I usually
> end up with a GPF between the two or a little "notice" that another program
> has control of the drive and it never ends up playing until I go to the
> Start menu and manually start the DVD from there. Then the remote doesn't
> even integrate with the DVD player. Did something go awry in my installation
> somewhere? I'd love to hear if you guys are as frustrated as I am about this
> and what you have done to tame Creative's lust for resources and controls!
>
> Thanks!
>
> Bubba