Maybe it's IE that causes Media Player to load up. Is there a decent version
of Netscape out there for Vista?
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JL
"jonathan perreault" wrote:
Quote:
> 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
> news:70CDC171-62B7-4535-9371-468A990CC2C0@xxxxxx Quote:
> >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
>