player 11 phoning home

It seems that Microsoft has decided I *WILL* participate in the "user experiance" phone home game because the option to uncheck the damn thing is greyed out. Is this real? If so it's GARBAGE. You want to use my sytem and my bandwidth get the checkbook out!
As an FYI: In order to defeat this garbage I changed all media file associations to other player apps and will NEVER use media player 11 until this is changed and I fully intend to tell every person I know to do the same.

Get back to me after RTM and if it's still that way I'll be right beside you, torch and/or pitchfork in hand (well, maybe a few feet behind you).
Until then, if you want you want to use BETA software, participate in the feedback.
"Austin Myers" wrote in message

It seems that Microsoft has decided I *WILL* participate in the "user experiance" phone home game because the option to uncheck the damn thing is greyed out. Is this real? If so it's GARBAGE. You want to use my sytem and my bandwidth get the checkbook out!
As an FYI: In order to defeat this garbage I changed all media file associations to other player apps and will NEVER use media player 11 until this is changed and I fully intend to tell every person I know to do the same.

Go to Tools > Options > Privacy (tab), under "Customer Experience Improvement Program", uncheck "I want to help make Microsoft software and services even better by sending Player usage data to Microsoft".
In the case of a beta though, I would keep it on personally. -- Andre Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta "Austin Myers" wrote in message

It seems that Microsoft has decided I *WILL* participate in the "user experiance" phone home game because the option to uncheck the damn thing is greyed out. Is this real? If so it's GARBAGE. You want to use my sytem and my bandwidth get the checkbook out!
As an FYI: In order to defeat this garbage I changed all media file associations to other player apps and will NEVER use media player 11 until this is changed and I fully intend to tell every person I know to do the same.