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Having my own domain won't help as there's no way to tie it to the Microsoft account once it has been created.
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It may be a new Microsoft idea or a temporary condition or a Microsoft reaction to the "mediacenter key" Windows 8 installation hack and the like. Right now there is the "rename account" link just below the email that reports "the email account cannot be changed". It is too illogical to be permanent.
Anyway, the right thing to do is to use a Microsoft Mail (Hotmail?) for the Microsoft Account. It will not go away prior to Microsoft and Windows 8. It is always possible to do that, but all bonuses like additional Sky Drive space will be lost.
In the beta Windows times I have configured several Windows 8 machines. Now I have exactly one real Windows 8 machine and my language settings still occasionally change on their own. The worst inconvenience is that programs either see or not the Ctrl+Shift+0 shortcut.
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That's fine, but I don't want to have to reinstall her laptop just to change the associated account. That seems to be the only option at present.
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in user accounts you can add another account, the option looks to allow you to add a microsoft account although I haven't tried it through to completion and the option may only be there because the PC i saw this on was configured with a Local account.
I did try a microsoft account but I didn't want to run my local applications as an email address as they log things to a server using the windows user name. So I then added a local account and deleted my microsoft account
This doesn't help if your mother has been using the appstore etc but it may help if the account is still new enough to be mostly unused
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I recently tackled this and found that it's a known issue that email addresses or liveIDs can't be changed right now. I've used my own domain for years now, while that domain isn't working, and they send the email to my current email account.
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Perhaps you could make a new MS Account, then use Windows Easy Transfer to migrate her data and settings over to it?
Disclaimer: I have not tried this.
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This is, partially, in response to the recent "CCCC" thread, but I am also curious to know your opinion in terms of media players, and, I feel that: if I start a new thread, it will get broader exposure than if I just add this to the "CCCC" thread.
Until recently, I only used VLC, then I began to notice that certain video files (.mkv format) showed a kind of grid-like pattern in the background that was visually disturbing: those same files, played in WMP, without changing any system settings in Win 7/64, or any settings in nVidia's settings for the GeForce 7100GS card, looked significantly better.
Whether the apparent difference in visual quality is due to my somewhat atypical (?) hardware configuration: nVidia GeForce 7100GS driving a six-year old, 720p capable, 32-inch LG teevee, via HDMI=>HDMI ... I have no idea.
On the other hand, certain video files, in several different formats, that play without error in VLC, cause a complete freeze of my Win 7/64 system when played with WMP: keyboard, mouse unresponsive; no BSOD; reboot required.
And, your verdict ... is ?
thanks, Bill
"So long as … social condemnation, which, in the face of civilization, artificially creates hells on earth, and complicates divine destiny, with human fatality … so long as three problems of the age: degradation of man by poverty; ruin of women by starvation; dwarfing of childhood by physical and spiritual night: are not solved: so long as social asphyxia shall be possible … so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless." Victor Hugo, "Les Misérables," 1862
modified 4 Jan '13 - 20:25.
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BillWoodruff wrote: verdict
You should stop watching so much pr0n! 
Seriously, I've only ever used VLC or WMP.
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Happy New Year, Ahmed,
The only prOn I've seen in many years was when I last looked in the mirror. Here at home, I have spray-painted the only mirrors black, and I maintain careful vigilance outside the home, to avoid any stray reflections.
I also had to stop watching CNN when they began inserting subliminal photos of myself in newscasts. I still have not located the secret cameras they were using.
I hope you haven't had this problem, yourself.
yrs, Bill
"So long as … social condemnation, which, in the face of civilization, artificially creates hells on earth, and complicates divine destiny, with human fatality … so long as three problems of the age: degradation of man by poverty; ruin of women by starvation; dwarfing of childhood by physical and spiritual night: are not solved: so long as social asphyxia shall be possible … so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless." Victor Hugo, "Les Misérables," 1862
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I've been using mostly/only VLC on Windows and VLC/iTunes/Quicktime on Mac.
I don't think I ever was able to make WMP work on any PC that I touched (except maybe an early version that only played basic sound and video formats)
Nihil obstat
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BillWoodruff wrote: GeForce 7100GS card
I think it's time for an upgrade...
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Colin Mullikin wrote: I think it's time for an upgrade
Well, yes, Colin, that's very generous of you to offer; but, please, don't spend too much; I am not a "gamer," and with a six-year old 720p teevee, I may not be able to see much difference beyond what I see now.
thanks, Bill
"So long as … social condemnation, which, in the face of civilization, artificially creates hells on earth, and complicates divine destiny, with human fatality … so long as three problems of the age: degradation of man by poverty; ruin of women by starvation; dwarfing of childhood by physical and spiritual night: are not solved: so long as social asphyxia shall be possible … so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless." Victor Hugo, "Les Misérables," 1862
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BillWoodruff wrote: Well, yes, Colin, that's very generous of you to offer; but, please, don't spend too much
BillWoodruff wrote: I am not a "gamer," and with a six-year old 720p teevee, I may not be able to see much difference beyond what I see now.
You might not be able to "see" differences, but it many cases it would provide speed improvements. Lots of things in normal PC usage use the GPU to do things. There are tons of video cards out there that are exponentially better than yours for under $75.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Mostly I use Media Player Classic for video and foobar2000 for music. I've never really had any problems with that combination. 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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I was using Crystal Media Player untill a few months ago, when I switched to VLC, and the range of file it plays pretty well is very good.
But...there is always a but...it does annoy me because there are files that VLC just shows a green screen for, or runs at four times normal speed, that WMP or CMP handle just fine.
And, then I got a Nexus, so I installed VLC on that. Oh dear. And took it right back off again, since the number of files it does play is so small...so for Nexus I am using DICE player instead.
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BillWoodruff wrote: On the other hand, certain video files, in several different formats, that play without error in VLC,
For this very reason I use VLC.
Veni, vidi, vici.
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Like Colin, I also use Media Player Classic but it's now called Media Player Classic Home Cinema (mpc-hc).
And the current/active development is at http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/
You can download the x86 or x64. I also run Win7/x64. It works for me when I watch movies with happy ending. 
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Looks interesting. I couldn't find any docs for the API though...
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I use Windows Media Player because it's there and I know how to rip CDs with it.
What's a VLC?
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: What's a VLC?
A mediaplayer[^] that plays almost anything, without the need to install any codecs. They're builtin.
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
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I used to watch tons of anime, so i started using WMP, it was ok, but then switched VLC, and also was fine but i found that sometimes it just froze, never knew why.
But the best i have found yet is the GOM player, plays a lot of video formats, is light weight and if you ever get a file for which you dont have the codecs to play it(it is not common to occur this) will show a message to a page where you can download the required codec.
Nothing like a good cup of coffee to awaken the coding beast within.
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'Potentially' members of CP have heard all the jokes of the world. 'Realistically', they are just killjoy's.
Sentenryu
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The Gom Player [^] looks interesting; I'll check it out, thanks. I see the Gom player does not support playing .flac audio files, which I listen to often, but it does support .ogg.
I note that on CNet both Gom and VLC have over 48 million downloads [^].
Happy New Year !
yrs, Bill
"So long as … social condemnation, which, in the face of civilization, artificially creates hells on earth, and complicates divine destiny, with human fatality … so long as three problems of the age: degradation of man by poverty; ruin of women by starvation; dwarfing of childhood by physical and spiritual night: are not solved: so long as social asphyxia shall be possible … so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless." Victor Hugo, "Les Misérables," 1862
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I find WMP is more stable and has a way better design than VLC (which looks like it was designed for Windows 3.0, if that.) I use WMP for common audio (mp3 & wma) and VLC for uncommon audio and most movie files.
(When VLC first came out, it constantly crashed on my computers, but the last few releases seem relatively stable.)
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This day, like on many occasions in the past, I couldn't read a video from the web because it requires a codec that I don't have.
In the first place, I find it rather inconvenient that you need to find and download a codec file just to watch a video. But, well, we are used to that, they call it progress.
But what irks me most is the mentally challenged error message given by Windows Media Player in such situations: "the required codec is not installed". Why do I say mentally challenged ? Just because to fix this you need to know WHICH codec is required. Exactly the information that is never given by WMP. Just four letters. Why on earth do they keep these secret ???
You will tell me that there are utilities around to tell you the FourCC of a file. Agreed, but I wish you good luck when the file is known as a http URL...
Grrrrr, user-unfriendliness !!!
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Then download the file.
And use VLC instead of WMP and never install a codec again.
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