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Also, while it is open, it keeps dominating the pc control by making it the active application every few seconds. If I go to another window it soon reverts back to WMP as the active application.
This is a new computer. It didn't happen at first, but started happening a few days after installing iTunes. I realized I was still running Vista SP1 so I downloaded and installed SP2. It ran for a while ok then after a few hours of running the WMP began opening again.
sometime it starts at startup, and sometime it starts after the computer is up and running. The last time it began happening I was in the middle of another windows software update and was not actively working on the computer. Just letting the update run.
It won't let me disable it with the task manager either. As soon as I stop the application it opens right back up again.
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Hello MikeNevers,
Thank you for your post.
Click 'Start' >Type Services in the search box
Click 'Services' with the gear icon
On the left, find the service for (Windows Media Player)
Double-click the service, and change the startup type from Automatic to Manual.
Please let us know if this did or didn't help to resolve your problem.
Cheers
Jason Microsoft Answers Support Engineer Visit our Microsoft Answers Feedback Forum and let us know what you think.
I searched my documents and settings map for viruses with the lastest AVG free version and it came up with a trojan horse infection and moved it to the vault. This solved the popping up of WMP :D!
Furthermore the trojan was named "Trojan horse Agent2.BMMK"
Cheers and I hope this was helpfull to some ^^
EDIT: I also have the Lycosa keyboard but have never had a problem with the WMP pop-ups until today. Might have been the keyboard but then again everything went fine after the removal of the trojan.
I bought a Lycosa keyboard and this immediately started happening. Looks like Razer needs to clean up it's act.
Hello 15874852,
I'm totally agree with you..i have been reading and trying every suggested solutions..and as of yet..I can't stop the WMP from popping out! urrghhh >"""<
It definitively can't be my keyboard error as im using DELL studio laptop. Been suffering since the past 1 month..it's just annoying!! it just keep popping out!
Last time my laptop used to have DELL docks on desktop now, when I click on the dell docks option, WMP appear. Same thing happen when I click on all the browser icons! Google chrome, IE, Firefox, Safari...whenever I click on any of them, WMP will appear!
To go online, I have to go through "Tracing" folder, click on it, only then I'm allowed to go online.
Oh please..may Lord showers His love and mercy on anyone who can solve this issue.
Hello MikeNevers,
Thank you for your post.
Click 'Start' >Type Services in the search box
Click 'Services' with the gear icon
On the left, find the service for (Windows Media Player)
Double-click the service, and change the startup type from Automatic to Manual.
Please let us know if this did or didn't help to resolve your problem.
Cheers
Jason Microsoft Answers Support Engineer Visit our Microsoft Answers Feedback Forum and let us know what you think.
Running Windows 7 - this did not work for me, and my virus and full system scan found nothing either. Also, my keyboard is a simple microsoft keyboard with no media controls on it.
