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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.
I am also having this problem. I am running Vista on an Acer laptop. As suggested before, the problem does seem to be related to the keyboard. It started a month ago after I accepted a Windows update. I sometimes see the multi-media volume bars pop-up prior to Windows Media Player opening. It used to open another media player, until I uninstalled it. I also get the problem with the volume seeming to suddenly go out and sometimes, the Internet Connectivity multi-media button clicks out on its own. I too have tried all the stated suggestions but am still having the problem.
I had this problem and it wasn't my keyboard; it was actually my Logitech G35 headset. Turns out that one of the buttons was programmed to start Windows Media Player and sometimes that button was getting accidentally pressed, or if the headset was on my desk it was sometimes permanently pushing the button.
I used SysInternals Process Explorer (procexp) to look at the running wmplayer.exe process, which told me that it had a parent process called g35.exe, and that was then a giveaway as to the cause of the problem. This might be a useful trick to help you find out what keeps restarting Media Player.
The underlying issue is that the three G35 buttons have to be assigned to something and because I didn't want to use that button, I assigned it to Media Player.
I had this problem too. I ended up changing the batteries in my logitech mouse and keyboard a few hours ago and it seems to have fixed it, for now at least.
GP
