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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.
Thank you Marilyn, I have tried numerous ways to try to fix this and so far, I have not had anymore trouble. Why are so many people having this same problem with Windows 7? Will Windows be sending an update out to correct this?
Thank you,
Marilyn, this did not fix the problem of the Media Player opening on it's own and not being able to close it, as well. I do not know what to do at this point. I have reinstalled Windows 7 64-bit on three seperate occassions, plus attempted all of fixes that have been online. I can barely use my computer. I look forward to your help or Microsoft's help in getting this resolved.
Thank you,
I think this might be a keyboard problem as someone suggested upthread. I'm troubleshooting a friend's computer that has this problem and it's exactly as everyone has described above: WMP keeps jumping up as the active program and prevents you from typing. I noticed that if I only used the mouse that the problem didn't happen. I wiggled the keyboard cable once and WMP jumped into the foreground. I wonder if you guys might try a different keyboard and see what happens. Good luck...
