What's Annie doing in my win.ini?

[Ally]

Hey. I have this...

[annie]
CaptureFile=
VideoDevice=0
AudioDevice=0
FrameRate=667111
UseFrameRate=1
CaptureAudio=1
WantPreview=0
MasterStream=-

....in my win.ini, and would like to know what it belongs to --
something to do with capturing or playing back media streams, but I
really don't feel like uninstalling 10-20 apps and players and codecs
and browser plugins and cards to see what will make it go away (if
they do care to clean up after themselves, that is). I don't even
want it gone anyway, I'm just curious.

Obviously, web-searches involving the string "annie" are likely to
return a lot of pages with Annie being a someone rather than a
something.

Anyone an idea?

~Ally

--
Never send a monster to do the work of an evil scientist.

[Sir_George]

Ally,

The "annie" thing looks like settings from a game or maybe even an old
multimedia application.

I would just comment them out for a while and see if any
game / app doesn't run anymore or isn't regged anymore.

To comment them out, place a semi-colon at the beginning of each line;

;CaptureFile=
;VideoDevice=0
;AudioDevice=0
;FrameRate=667111
;UseFrameRate=1
;CaptureAudio=1
;WantPreview=0
;MasterStream=-

HTH
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"Ally" > wrote in message
4...
> Hey. I have this...
>
> [annie]
> CaptureFile=
> VideoDevice=0
> AudioDevice=0
> FrameRate=667111
> UseFrameRate=1
> CaptureAudio=1
> WantPreview=0
> MasterStream=-
>
> ...in my win.ini, and would like to know what it belongs to --
> something to do with capturing or playing back media streams, but I
> really don't feel like uninstalling 10-20 apps and players and codecs
> and browser plugins and cards to see what will make it go away (if
> they do care to clean up after themselves, that is). I don't even
> want it gone anyway, I'm just curious.
>
> Obviously, web-searches involving the string "annie" are likely to
> return a lot of pages with Annie being a someone rather than a
> something.
>
> Anyone an idea?
>
> ~Ally
>
> --
> Never send a monster to do the work of an evil scientist.

[Ally]

"Sir_George" > wrote:

> I would just comment them out for a while and see if any
> game / app doesn't run anymore or isn't regged anymore.

....which was exactly what I was hoping to avoid :) -- besides, I
suspect anything that reads these win.ini entries would just silently
revert to its default settings if I removed them or commented them
out. Since my current XP installation is but a week old or so, I
might not even notice (because I haven't configured or worked with
most of the not-so-essential stuff yet). Oh, well. It's not that
important I guess.

Thanks,

~Ally

--
Never send a monster to do the work of an evil scientist.