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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 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.
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The battery change didn't work. I have now replaced the wireless Logitech keyboard and mouse with the original wired keyboard and mouse and the problem has not reappeared. I therefore strongly suspect that this is a hardware related issue.
Hope this helps some avoid the hours of frustration this problem has caused me.
I'm also having this exact same problem, and i have had it for a couple of months now. I got fed up with WMP and eventually removed it from my system but that wasnt the end.. WMP trys to install itself by opening a window, which just like WMP can not be closed or ended and prompts me to reinstall window media player 9. Anyone else had this issue?
I just got a brand new PC, and the problem has started - like many others, I have a Razer Lycosa keyboard... although it was plugged into my other PC before the new one arrived, and I never had any trouble with that... although it was set with iTunes as default media player.
On the new machine, WMP launches itself at random intervals, and keeps launching itself everytime you close it. It steals window focus, even when minimized, and is generally annoying... Then - like magic - it goes away again ready to surprise me next time I'm trying to do something important!
I've changed the default media player to iTunes on this PC now, so let's see if it is the keyboard... I'll report my findings.
