play around with the settings try to find something that requires media
player to run in the background i have the same computer except that mine
aspire 5100 vista home premium, and haven't that problem, althought all the
features like something to keep media or any other program are always set to
run when i run them. hope this helps.
"James LeBas" <JamesLeBas@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have a new Acer Aspire 3100 notebook running Vista Home Basic. Since
>buying
> it two weeks ago, it locked up, ie, failed, every time I tried to
> Hibernate
> or Sleep it. After a bunch of hit-or-miss time with the Task Manager, it
> appears that Windows Media Player sometimes loads itself up as a Process
> (not
> as an application), and in that state, the PC locked up everytime I tried
> to
> Hibernate it. If I manually end the Process of Windows Media Player in
> Task
> Manager, it seems to work every time.
> 1 - Has anyone else encountered this?
> 1.a. - Is Media Player a likely suspect?
> 2 - How can one keep Media Player from loading ITSELF as a process?
> Thanks.
> JL