Windows Portible Device Shell Service – WPDSHSERVICEOBJ.DLL

Wpdshserviceobj.dll will be found in your Windows\System or System32 folder. It installs with Windows media Player as the Windows Portable Device Shell Service Object that installs as part of Microsoft's Windows Media Digital Rights Management. Windows Media Digital Rights Management (DRM) is a platform to protect and securely deliver content for playback on computers, portable devices, and network devices. You're most likely to use this technology when writing or transferring copyrighted information to a protible device such as an MP3 player.

An overview of Windows Media Digital Rights Management can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/drm/default.mspx.

Update information can be found at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/891122/.

If you have an older version of this file, a default setting in Windows Media Player Digital Rights Management could allow a user to open a web page without requesting permission. You'll find more information at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/892313.mspx.

You may also find a file called wpdtrace.dll on your system. It is a trace utility that installs with this same program. While these files shouldn't need to be running all the time, you may need to have them running to access (play, transfer, etc) copyrighted content.

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