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I downloaded the trial of poweramp, and although the program itself worked swimmingly, I am less than pleased with its side effects on my computer.
By default, it automatically took over the display of information about mp3 files I had. hovering over them displayed a large box full of information I don't need, nor care to see. Also, my details pane (the box at the bottom of vista/7 windows) also had unneeded information added to the list of things displayed. Consequently, now half of the items I am used to seeing don't even show up anymore because the items added by poweramp take up the whole box (info such as conductor, mood, composer, sample rate, etc...various things that were hidden or not appearing by default before poweramp was installed)
unchecked all the options giving poweramp control of my explorer and now the context menus are gone when right-clicking files (that never bothered me much though), and the huge box of information that appears on hovering over items is gone...except now the box that appears on hover is not the one that appeared before installing poweramp, it doesnt even show info in the tag data of mp3s like it used to, just file name and size. also my details pane remains filled with, what I consider, junk information. Poweramp has been uninstalled for two days now and so far I have not been able to find a solution which will reset my details pane or fix the hover box. The fact that even after uninstalling and using the exe file in the FAQ section to remove poweramp, my computer is still modified to something I don't want just because a developer thought it would be okay to default options which change how your computer behaves without first giving the user even a heads up about it.
it may not seem like much to you, but making options, which are unnecessary to the function of the program, that modify the os itself defaulted to on has turned me off from even considering getting a liscense. i'd much rather find another program.
By default, it automatically took over the display of information about mp3 files I had. hovering over them displayed a large box full of information I don't need, nor care to see. Also, my details pane (the box at the bottom of vista/7 windows) also had unneeded information added to the list of things displayed. Consequently, now half of the items I am used to seeing don't even show up anymore because the items added by poweramp take up the whole box (info such as conductor, mood, composer, sample rate, etc...various things that were hidden or not appearing by default before poweramp was installed)
unchecked all the options giving poweramp control of my explorer and now the context menus are gone when right-clicking files (that never bothered me much though), and the huge box of information that appears on hovering over items is gone...except now the box that appears on hover is not the one that appeared before installing poweramp, it doesnt even show info in the tag data of mp3s like it used to, just file name and size. also my details pane remains filled with, what I consider, junk information. Poweramp has been uninstalled for two days now and so far I have not been able to find a solution which will reset my details pane or fix the hover box. The fact that even after uninstalling and using the exe file in the FAQ section to remove poweramp, my computer is still modified to something I don't want just because a developer thought it would be okay to default options which change how your computer behaves without first giving the user even a heads up about it.
it may not seem like much to you, but making options, which are unnecessary to the function of the program, that modify the os itself defaulted to on has turned me off from even considering getting a liscense. i'd much rather find another program.
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