??? strange...it has never crashed for me on my old Win98 machine, and it is one of the most respected ones out there. I'm sorry you had problems with it. I just got tired of Media Player demanding to be in charge and not having the features *I* wanted, so I went looking.

(and those icon changes are the result of making it (or allowing allowing it to become) the *default* player. I have 4-5 decent players installed, and I specify which one I want to play when I click a song. Then I can open a song file in any other player by opening the player first, then finding the song or group of songs I want.)