According to a ton of sites around ye olde web, you can cut your load times in World of Warcraft by running Windows Media Player 11 in the background.

A blogger on Wired.com tested it and reported:”By opening Windows Media Player, leaving it idle, minimizing it, then playing WoW, I did in fact notice shorter loading times, specifically in high-traffic sections of the game.”

Coming soon from Microsoft, a press release stating “It’s not a bug, it’s a feat…wait, it does what, now?”

Never fear, though…the Blizzard Quality Control Team (”Controlling quality with an iron fist”) is all over it.

Blizzard is aware of the “issue” and are looking into it.

If the gods of free entertainment are with us, there’ll be a mix-up and announce free transfers from WMP 11 to less-populated servers, unless you were trying to transfer to a PvP player from a PvE player. The “official” response so far? Well, Dath with Blizzard said this on the WoW forums:

From what I understand, 2 can do that if your computer spends too much time thinking. It basically tells the game that it can think more often than being constrained by a time limit. You might experience similar behaviors with timingmethod 1 with a media program up, such as Windows Media Player. Those programs change the timing systemwide while they’re running.

For those of you counting along at home, please place a hashmark under “Signs of the Apocolypse”, subheading “Microsoft Helps Third-Party Program Run”.

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