DRM is Digital Rights Management. It is meant to keep bad guys from playing a song they paid for and downloaded, on a different computer or device (it controls that crap). I personally DON’T CARE about DRM, because I don’t buy music online, or on iTunes (a despicable application/site). Everything I play was ripped from a CD I own (as a legal backup), or something I downloaded free of charge on the NET. Many record labels have sites with free downloads, as do bands MySpew web pages. So those are not protected, DUH. The mfpmp.exe process seems to have trouble understanding that.
WARNING: After I did this, some of my media (a good chunk of it) wouldn't play, so I undid what I changed here.
So I have my new home Vista (Fist-ya) computer and every time I play a music file, this one process called mfpmp.exe goes nuts. Its Windows new answer to DRM, protecting the rights of the stupid, I suppose. I got sick of my songs perpetually sputtering as I listen and did some digging around and found some tips on removing the annoyance. None worked, so I did this;
Booted my PC into Safe Mode (hit F8 as the machine starts to boot..Repeatedly).
Pick Safe Mode and login as myself, or Administrator, if I am not an administrator.
Open Explorer and browse to C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\
Scroll down to the file mfpmp.exe and right click it and click Properties.
Click the Security Tab and highlight the Users group.
Click the check box for Full Control.
Click Apply, then close the box.
Right click on the file again and pick Rename.
Rename the file to mfpmpa.exe.
Hit enter and reboot. No more mfpmp.exe, at least until Microsoft drops an update down to replace it, which will happen soon I am sure.
My music now plays perfectly, no sputters, jerks or pauses. Go figure?
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