lornamatic

So it’s almost 3am. Hey, blogging time!

I came across this post by Sree Kotay, former Viewpoint CTO, and it reminded me of those early days when Viewpoint was still MetaStream, and it was all about putting fast and beautiful 3D content on the web. It was all cutting edge, exciting and new…

A big contrast to the reputation the player ultimately got, which is, I think, a little unfair. Read Sree’s comments here, if you want the details.

But anyway. Today I got prompted to install the Viewpoint Media Player upgrade. C’mon, are you kidding me? I haven’t installed that since like, 2001. But AIM installs it, and I finally just got around to trying Triton (no small deal for me, since I’ve been using AIM 2.3 for, oh, a few years now) . There are probably still a few other things that slip it in, too (you can tell who finked you out by looking in the MetaStreamID.ini file).

So as a public service announcement, and because I feel at least a little responsible for that damn installer, here’s the easy way to disable that little turd (mostly) forever.

Step 1. Go here:

Step 2. Change this:

to this:

Step 3. Then, just save the file.

Easy as pie. VWPT can’t launch anymore, because you’ve just reminded it that you never gave it permission to launch in the first place. Worst you’ll ever get is a little EULA prompting you to click OK, which I hope you can figure out how to take care of on your own.

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