Friday, December 11, 2009

Disable Send unique player ID through Windows Media Player.

Disable Send unique player ID through Windows Media Player.

Windows media player is not interested in personal information. It provides audio and video to your computer through media server. The server identifies your computer with ip address and player id number. The player id is prepared from a globally unique identifier (guid). The id is generated by the windows media player setup program through standard operating system functions and windows media player saves it for logging.

You can disable this, by following these:
  1. Go to start > run menu,
  2. enter "regedit"
  3. Navigate to the registry path listed below: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Preferences
  4. Find SendUserGUID (If you can't find the value in the registry under the exact location (i.e. it does not exist) - please right click in the right pane of the window and create it.)
  5. Now, right-click and modify the binary value of SendUserGUID to 00 (in Value Data write 0000 00)
The changes take effect after a restart or logoff.

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