ElfjeTwaalfje

Yesterday I bought a NW-A805, a Sony to prevent the troublesome iPod ware. Nice player, bad-to-worse supporting software. I can understand why people avoid Sony for this. Anyway. First I was unable to install the SonicStage 4.3 software supplied on the CD. I got an error: "Installation process for sonicstage 4.3 has been terminated (2051,20703)" After intense searching and trying a lot of stuff a got a hint somewhere (I unfortunately forgot where, as to give credit to the guy or girl ;-). Here is the fix. It has something to do with a file being locked (as is normaly the case in any Windows operating system, Sony take note!) I downloaded Unlocker here http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/ I looked for msvcp60.dll in the system32 folder of windows (c:\windows\system32) With Unlocker I unlocked all processes. On my PC two processes failed but that proved to be no problem (essential system process) Installed SonicStage 4.3 without a problem! Reboot (msvcp60.dll will be locked again) After that I connected my player and ... SonicStage crashed with an Omgjbox.exe error. Thanx to the solution provided by torpedo here http://www.atraclife.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=3564 that was solved quickly (take care of the locking of msvcp60.dll) Took me a whole evening to do what should have been a breeze, blame on you Sony for releasing this kind of entertainment software. Hope this is usefull for those getting frustrated by Sony mallware.