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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.
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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.
Update: have been unable to find any way of preventing this periodic hijacking of my machine by WMP. So went into Install/remove > Turn Windows features on or off > Media Features and unchecked everything. Am now using various 3rd party apps to play media.
Will wait and see if that has any effect, and report back.
I have this problem too. Every few days WMP goes berserk. Pops itself up, keeps making itself the active window which makes the computer unusable. Essentially I have to leave the computer alone until it has finished.
At one point I saw something about "update" appear briefly at the bottom of the window. I never explicitly authorised WMP to update itself so this is clearly something that Microsoft has decided it does not need my permission for!
Have tried all the suggestions earlier in this thread about disabling services - no effect whatsoever.
Also tried removing all file associations so nothing should be invoking WMP. No effect whatsoever.
I'd prefer not to have to uninstall WMP but if I cannot find a solution to this I will have to.
PS - I am using Win7 though. Clearly the problem is common to both OS.
i couldn't get rid of it, so i completely removed windows media player, and installed win amp once again, this seemed to get rid of the problem... however on a handfull of occasions win amp has poped up randomly as well, i close it and it pops up again once or twice then shuts down for good.
i really have no idea what is going on here... virus... windows 7 bug... who knowes... :(
