[Closed] Brief Windows 8 rant

[url= http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.en_GB.html ]VLC media player[/url] will do the trick.

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But people still play things from shiny plastic discs? Wow.

get outside on the bike - starva will be at your mercy in this tetchy state 😀

You get at least 90mins for your lunch and yet you want to complain 👿

I bet its only got a CD optical drive and wont read DVD's...

operator cocks up using equipment and blames equipment.

Simple instructions on MS website about how to play DVD's. First hit when searching 'windows dvd playback'.

Autoplay is disabled by design as it's a security risk - viruses could autorun otherwise.

I fail to see how you installing dodgy software is in any way Microsoft's fault.

Windows Update defaults to auto updating (which is a Good Thing) but you can readily set it not to if you want.

VLC will play DVDs (and indeed, pretty much everything else) and is free.

User Error.

Simple instructions on MS website about how to play DVD's. First hit when searching 'windows dvd playback'.

I think they involved paying a tenner for something you used to get for free...and where is the 'windows store', anyhow? No button on the start menu for that.

Got it working using GOM player now. Except for no audio codecs, apparently. Tried VLC. That was the one that came bundled with all the shite I didn't want,

What I can't understand it why MS would remove a pretty basic bit of functionality, which, autoplay aside, was no problem for the system, forcing you to head off into the wilds and try to find an alternative.

Tried VLC. That was the one that came bundled with all the shite I didn't want.

I don't recall VLC coming with foisterware, but I'm 100% certain that if it now does these days, there will be a tick box allowing you to deselect it. Did you download it from VideoLAN or some random scabby site?

I don't recall VLC coming with foisterware, but I'm 100% certain that if it now does these days, there will be a tick box allowing you to deselect it. Did you download it from VideoLAN or some random scabby site?

It doesn't. What I imagine happened is similar to me the other day. Installed 8.1 on a bootcamp partition last night, quite late...so wasn't paying real attention. Searched for Chrome download, via IE/Bing, clicked the first link as I would always do in Chrome/Firefox/Safari on the mac, and went to a very Chrome like download page. It was Chrome, but with something called wamjam? bundled. Nice of IE to not filter out that sort of stuff.

So in summary, **** IE, but I should have been paying attention.

Looked legit, but they all do, don't they?

No tickbox.

Funnily enough, Jamie, I'm currently reinstalling Chrome to get rid of some pop-up that tries to sell me watches when I'm looking for codecs...

I installed VLC player on my work machine 2 weeks ago as it will play files from our CCTV and no extra payload was installed & I'm pretty sure our thought police IT would be jumping down my throat if anything iffy came with it.

So, windows 8 is shit because you installed some dodgy software? 😆

www.malwarebytes.org

No, because MS have decided it shouldn't come bundled with the same level of stuff that Windows 7 machines did. Which means ordinary users (rather than IT-savvy folk such as yourselves) are at the mercy of whatever ranks highest on google as they look for the functionality they've lost.

What the hell is so exotic about a DVD playing app on a machine with a DVD player stuck into the side of it?

Cougar - running as we speak on the laptop. Only 22 objects so far...

DVD's aren't exotic, they are just becoming/have become redundant!

DVD's aren't exotic, they are just becoming redundant!

That seems to be the plan. Funnily enough I still own quite a few. God I sound like my dad..

you should get with the program, and thieve that shit like the rest of us! 😆

Google would suggest that they sell a media pack which contains the DVD player, which is presumably why they've done it. FWIW I agree, it's a miserable thing not to include, but then there's so many other free options that it's really a non-issue. Thinking about it, I don't think it ever even occurred to me to try to play a DVD natively (in W7), I just installed VLC when I wanted to do it.

Amusingly, VLCMediaPlayer.exe has been flagged as malware by malwarebytes...

Sesosamh77 - this is for you, you degenerate.

😆

Oh ffs. Chrome is still banjaxed despite a reinstall. ..

Amusingly, VLCMediaPlayer.exe has been flagged as malware by malwarebytes...

"vlcmediaplayer.exe" isn't any legitimate name I've ever seen. The executable for VLC is vlc.exe. What you've got there is a trojan, it's nothing to do with VLC / VideoLAN.

Oh ffs. Chrome is still banjaxed despite a reinstall. ..

I thought it might be, reinstalling won't change any settings. You need to disable hostile plugins and probably reset your home page. MBAM may do this for you.

Yep, gathered that. Obviously totally fake download site. Malwarebytes hasn't dealt with it either. System restore next step?

No additional extensions or plugins were showing.

System Restore is a good idea, yes. You'll probably have to reinstall those Windows Updates afterwards.

Hurrah. Yes, IE is buggered also, so that seems to be my only option.

Try MPC-HC if you don't fancy VLC anymore

Here's a legit link, just in case 😉 http://mpc-hc.org/

Cheers. Appears to be sorted now.

I had a similar WTF moment when I first put a DVD in my Win 8 laptop and naively assumed that it would just, you know, play the same way they have in every Windows laptop for the last God knows how many years.

Sure it's easy to install VLC or something but IMO this is firmly in the set of things that a laptop equipped with a DVD player should just do with no messing.

DOesn't specifically help with the windows defaults but I [b]BELIEVE[/b] that ninite is "guaranteed crap-free" and might help you install loads of good shit all at once

Jota - that MPC-HC is exactly what I needed a few hours back. Thanks.