Boo to Playitall Media Player

Well, there was going to be a video... I say was because when I went to go preview it I realized it was FREAKIN HUGE (4gb which is max for AVI). So I went on a search for a good program to chop it up and make pretty macaroni art out of it. But anyways, during my search I stumbled across a video player boasting to be able to play larger AVI files. So I downloaded it, ran virus scan etc. It was clean... CLEAN. But, it still didn't work. I'm not one to keep a program around if it's not going to do the job I've tasked it for, so I went and uninstalled it. Well without any warning of "you should close everything before uninstalling" or anything like that, it proceeded to punch holes in my registry pertaining to ALL of my file associations. I was unable to run any .exe files, .com files or any other software files, I was able to open pictures, but that was about it. I couldn't even run regedit or get to the command prompt from Start>Run. Luckily for me I still had firefox open and was able to locate a help file that had some registry files to reallocate file associations. This worked, for the most part.

This morning I went back to searching. And I came across yet another realization. It also corrupted my avi file association and all of my Windows Media Player codec's.

So I say Boo to you Mr. PlayItAll coder. And I recommend anyone who has this get rid of it, but be very careful about it.