Interesting... Yes, I installed WMP 11 on XP Pro SP2 and the darned thing was always trying to connect to some site that wanted to sell me something. It was a CPU hog too -- and slow. If it's even worse on Vista I want no part of that. Thanks for the information. DSH "Travis King" <Anonymous@none.com> wrote in message news:uRPc6HoXHHA.4612@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... How is...