disable windows media player metadata retrieving (WXP-Pro)

[dafyk]

This setting prevents the Player from automatically obtaining media information from the Internet for CDs and DVDs played by users.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Wind owsMediaPlayer]
"PreventCDDVDMetadataRetrieval"=dword:00000001

1=on
0=off

This setting prevents the Player from automatically obtaining media information for music files such as Windows Media Audio (WMA) and MP3 files from the Internet.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Wind owsMediaPlayer]
"PreventMusicFileMetadataRetrieval"=dword:0000 0001

1=on
0=off