wmplayer dies not unload

Just about every time I pull up the task manager, wmplayer is loaded. I found
out about this after I exited it, lost the player, and picture, but the sound
was still playing along. Until I found it was in the task manager, I had no way
to turn that off.

How do I get wmplayer to quit when I tell it to ?
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I think you'll find that this has been addressed recently (and often) on the
windows media player newsgroup. If you search there, I'm pretty sure you'll
find it.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...&lang=en&cr=US
Hope this helps you find a solution...
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"" wrote:

> Just about every time I pull up the task manager, wmplayer is loaded. I found
> out about this after I exited it, lost the player, and picture, but the sound
> was still playing along. Until I found it was in the task manager, I had no way
> to turn that off.
>
> How do I get wmplayer to quit when I tell it to ?
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On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:38:04 -0800, IkidUnot
<> wrote:

>I think you'll find that this has been addressed recently (and often) onthe
>windows media player newsgroup. If you search there, I'm pretty sure you'll
>find it.
>http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...&lang=en&cr=US
>Hope this helps you find a solution...

Nope, lots of questions but only 1 answer and that was useless. reinstall
vista..
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How about this one? I never heard from the peson if ths was helpful, and I
don't know if this is how your WMP process starts...
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/com...b-7bc34c0ff043
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"" wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:38:04 -0800, IkidUnot
> <> wrote:
>
> >I think you'll find that this has been addressed recently (and often) on the
> >windows media player newsgroup. If you search there, I'm pretty sure you'll
> >find it.
> >http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...&lang=en&cr=US
> >Hope this helps you find a solution...
>
> Nope, lots of questions but only 1 answer and that was useless. reinstall
> vista..
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Sorry for another post, but:

if that doesn't work, I'd go hunting for why or what starts the WMP process
(I presume it starts at boot time - which is unnecessary, I believe).

You can use MSconfig or Sysinternals' program called "Autoruns". If it
isn't started at boot time, you can still figure out what starts it using
"Process Explorer", again from Systinternals (www.sysinternals.com) This
and Process Monitor are very good "hunting" programs. Good luck...

-me.
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"" wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:38:04 -0800, IkidUnot
> <> wrote:
>
> >I think you'll find that this has been addressed recently (and often) on the
> >windows media player newsgroup. If you search there, I'm pretty sure you'll
> >find it.
> >http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...&lang=en&cr=US
> >Hope this helps you find a solution...
>
> Nope, lots of questions but only 1 answer and that was useless. reinstall
> vista..
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> more pix @ http://members.toast.net/cbminfo/index.html
>

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:32:02 -0800, IkidUnot
<> wrote:

>How about this one? I never heard from the peson if ths was helpful, and I
>don't know if this is how your WMP process starts...
>http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/com...b-7bc34c0ff043

I have no idea what that's even saying. I'm just going to remove all
associations to it.
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What devices are attached to the system?
Is Media Center running? What applications are running when this happens?
Can you check what command line the player is running with? I believe the
SysInternal's "Process Monitor" tool should show you that.

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Just about every time I pull up the task manager, wmplayer is loaded. I
found
out about this after I exited it, lost the player, and picture, but the
sound
was still playing along. Until I found it was in the task manager, I had no
way
to turn that off.

How do I get wmplayer to quit when I tell it to ?
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more pix @ http://members.toast.net/cbminfo/index.html

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:58:36 -0800, "zachd [MSFT]"

>What devices are attached to the system?
>Is Media Center running? What applications are running when this happens?
>Can you check what command line the player is running with? I believe the
>SysInternal's "Process Monitor" tool should show you that.

It's a common problem, and re-installing vista or WMP IS the only solution, but
there's no way to re-install WMP since it's part of the Vista installation.

It's more or less a 3rd party program. I have many others that can play the
files it plays. It's just simpler to use WMP in most cases. It grabs relevant
codec's in 80% of the files. Without it I have to google to find a working
codec.

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How would reinstalling WMP fix this problem? Could you be specific in what
element you think needs to be reset?

If I'm right and there's an extant reference count on the player from some
other element/application, wouldn't reinstalling the operating system be
doomed to failure since later on you would again have that same rogue
element again holding a reference count to the player and again preventing
WMP from unloading?

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On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:58:36 -0800, "zachd [MSFT]"

>What devices are attached to the system?
>Is Media Center running? What applications are running when this happens?
>Can you check what command line the player is running with? I believe the
>SysInternal's "Process Monitor" tool should show you that.

It's a common problem, and re-installing vista or WMP IS the only solution,
but
there's no way to re-install WMP since it's part of the Vista installation.

It's more or less a 3rd party program. I have many others that can play the
files it plays. It's just simpler to use WMP in most cases. It grabs
relevant
codec's in 80% of the files. Without it I have to google to find a working
codec.

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On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:59:37 -0800, "zachd [MSFT]"
<> wrote:

>
>How would reinstalling WMP fix this problem? Could you be specific in what
>element you think needs to be reset?
>
>If I'm right and there's an extant reference count on the player from some
>other element/application, wouldn't reinstalling the operating system be
>doomed to failure since later on you would again have that same rogue
>element again holding a reference count to the player and again preventing
>WMP from unloading?

It's a recent problem. I disagree with the fix to re-install Vista. But Ido
agree with the possible causes of adding 3rd party codec's outside of WMP. WMP
is not a be-all end-all application. It won't play some files no matter what
you do. In that case you need another player, and most likely different
codec's. I presume this is what happened when I ran across some MKV file a week
or 2 back. I use Vdub, that's supposed to handle MKV fine. But it couldn't.
went to the MKV site. or rather www.filext.org to find out what to use with it.
It's an ancient file type. The links at filext were dead, but not the ones at
sourceforge. I found a player, but no editor or converter. So, it was more
trouble than it was worth, so I don't use MKV files any more, but I suspect the
damage was done.
For all I know it could have been any of 1000 other causes that screwedup WMP.
And still I'm not alone with this problem, and there is no fix at the message
boards.
The problem didn't always exist.
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