Rob;3029639 Wrote:
Quote:
> When this happens, press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to start Task Manager, select
> the
> Processes tab and you'll find the wmplayer.exe process is already
> running
> (although it doesn't appear on the Applications tab). Select it and
> choose
> End Process.
>
> I've no idea why, but some bug in Vista causes wmplayer to start
> whenever
> the PC is restarted or brought out of sleep, but without its window
> showing.
> You can't run two instances of wmplayer, and as Vista assumes you're
> trying
> to run a second instance when you click Windows Media Player, it
> silently
> ignores you.
Here's how I solved this bs wplayer.exe problem. It was hogging up too
much memory in my case for an app that is not even running. Just create
a small batch script to kill the process and schedule the batch script
to run after you log in. The script is this:
-echo START
date /t
time /t
For /F "tokens=2" %%n in ('tasklist ^| Find "wmplayer.exe"') Do Set
task=%%n
echo %task%
TaskKill /PID %task%
Set task=
echo END-
and I named it "kill_wmplayer.exe" and saved it into my documents
directory. It could be made shorter because some of the echos were for
debuging while creating it. I also redirect the output to a logfile so
I can see when it works or not, but you don't need to do that either.
The scheduler was the hardest part! I finally had to make it trigger
after I log on and then I make it delay 1 minute and restart every 1
minute for 5 minutes because the wmplayer.exe may not have already
started when the scheduler runs. And making the script start on
startup was a joke with all the bs security issues - and I'm admin!
Oh, and the GOM player idea may be a much better played - but it does
not solve the wmplayer from starting up when the computer is turned on!
However, from your suggesstion I am going to start using the GOM
player! I did a little research and it does sound better than
wmplayer. Just the fact that Microsoft is cramming their player down
my throat and preventing me from uninstalling it is enough reason for
me to use another player.
Good luck!
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