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| | Still Trying to KILL wmplayer.exe DEAD, DEAD, DEAD Vista sp1 Wmplayer.exe is causing me grief. I can't burn a CD because the drive is in use by... you guessed it...wmplayer.exe. Yes, I can start task manager and kill it and restart the burning program. Not at all clear how it's getting started. Some suggest that it's being started by mobsync.exe when I insert a flash drive. Since I always have a flash drive inserted... Often, but not always, I can't eject a flash drive because it's in use. Killing wmplayer usually, but not always releases it. I rename wmplayer, it comes back. I renamed the file, and the one in the prefetch cache and turned off system restore. Turned off automatic updates. Two days later, I try to burn a CD and can't...wmplayer back. Is there a dummy file that just sleeps that I can rename as wmplayer.exe and make windows quit reinstalling it? I don't want windows to sync anything or play anything or index anything. When I insert media or a flash drive, I want a drive letter assigned and NOTHING else. I don't want wmplayer to run EVER. How do I stop this invasive program??? Thanks, mike |
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| | Re: Still Trying to KILL wmplayer.exe DEAD, DEAD, DEAD Have you considered checking the default actions for media insert and, where necessary, disabling Media Player from there? Open Control Panel then AutoPlay. "spamme0" <spamme9@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:glmj7h$8n9$1@xxxxxx Quote: > Vista sp1 > Wmplayer.exe is causing me grief. > I can't burn a CD because the drive is in use by... > you guessed it...wmplayer.exe. Yes, I can start task manager > and kill it and restart the burning program. > Not at all clear how it's getting started. > Some suggest that it's being started by mobsync.exe > when I insert a flash drive. Since I always have > a flash drive inserted... > > Often, but not always, I can't eject a flash drive because > it's in use. Killing wmplayer usually, but not always releases it. > > I rename wmplayer, it comes back. > I renamed the file, and the one in the prefetch cache > and turned off system restore. Turned off automatic updates. > Two days later, I try to burn a CD and can't...wmplayer back. > > Is there a dummy file that just sleeps that I can rename as wmplayer.exe > and make windows quit reinstalling it? > > I don't want windows to sync anything or play anything or index > anything. When I insert media or a flash drive, I want a drive > letter assigned and NOTHING else. > > I don't want wmplayer to run EVER. How do I stop this > invasive program??? > > Thanks, mike |
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| | Re: Still Trying to KILL wmplayer.exe DEAD, DEAD, DEAD Richard G. Harper wrote: Quote: > Have you considered checking the default actions for media insert and, > where necessary, disabling Media Player from there? Open Control Panel > then AutoPlay. Quote: > > "spamme0" <spamme9@xxxxxx> wrote in message > news:glmj7h$8n9$1@xxxxxx Quote: >> Vista sp1 >> Wmplayer.exe is causing me grief. >> I can't burn a CD because the drive is in use by... >> you guessed it...wmplayer.exe. Yes, I can start task manager >> and kill it and restart the burning program. >> Not at all clear how it's getting started. >> Some suggest that it's being started by mobsync.exe >> when I insert a flash drive. Since I always have >> a flash drive inserted... >> >> Often, but not always, I can't eject a flash drive because >> it's in use. Killing wmplayer usually, but not always releases it. >> >> I rename wmplayer, it comes back. >> I renamed the file, and the one in the prefetch cache >> and turned off system restore. Turned off automatic updates. >> Two days later, I try to burn a CD and can't...wmplayer back. >> >> Is there a dummy file that just sleeps that I can rename as wmplayer.exe >> and make windows quit reinstalling it? >> >> I don't want windows to sync anything or play anything or index >> anything. When I insert media or a flash drive, I want a drive >> letter assigned and NOTHING else. >> >> I don't want wmplayer to run EVER. How do I stop this >> invasive program??? >> >> Thanks, mike |
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| Vista Home Premium 64bit | Re: Still Trying to KILL wmplayer.exe DEAD, DEAD, DEAD Have you tried disabling the "Windows Media Center Extender Service" in services? (start, type "services.msc" (w/o quotes), then find above and disable.) Good luck! Mollie |
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| | Re: Still Trying to KILL wmplayer.exe DEAD, DEAD, DEAD Let's step back to the beginning: ~why~ is the player using the CD player at that time when you're trying to burn? If the player isn't burning, I don't believe it's going to try to acquire a lock on the burner: that seems like something else might be going on. What app are you using to burn? As regards "not starting the player" : you're starting services (mobsync, for example) that use the player. As regards "killing the player": what you're trying to do there is not supported. Third party system-destroying tools such as vLite might give you what you want there, but : you really would be taking a hammer to your system and breaking it. -- Speaking for myself only. See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. -- "spamme0" <spamme9@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:glmj7h$8n9$1@xxxxxx Quote: > Vista sp1 > Wmplayer.exe is causing me grief. > I can't burn a CD because the drive is in use by... > you guessed it...wmplayer.exe. Yes, I can start task manager > and kill it and restart the burning program. > Not at all clear how it's getting started. > Some suggest that it's being started by mobsync.exe > when I insert a flash drive. Since I always have > a flash drive inserted... > > Often, but not always, I can't eject a flash drive because > it's in use. Killing wmplayer usually, but not always releases it. > > I rename wmplayer, it comes back. > I renamed the file, and the one in the prefetch cache > and turned off system restore. Turned off automatic updates. > Two days later, I try to burn a CD and can't...wmplayer back. > > Is there a dummy file that just sleeps that I can rename as wmplayer.exe > and make windows quit reinstalling it? > > I don't want windows to sync anything or play anything or index > anything. When I insert media or a flash drive, I want a drive > letter assigned and NOTHING else. > > I don't want wmplayer to run EVER. How do I stop this > invasive program??? > > Thanks, mike |
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| | Re: Still Trying to KILL wmplayer.exe DEAD, DEAD, DEAD zachd [MSFT] wrote: Quote: > > > Let's step back to the beginning: ~why~ is the player using the CD > player at that time when you're trying to burn? If the player isn't Quote: > burning, I don't believe it's going to try to acquire a lock on the > burner: that seems like something else might be going on. > What app are you using to burn? Been using it for ages on xp on the same hardware with no problem. One thing I just realized is that I replaced a USB hard drive with a USB flash drive at about the same time I switched from XPSP2 to VistaSP1 They are known to behave differently. Quote: > > As regards "not starting the player" : you're starting services > (mobsync, for example) that use the player. but I'm waiting till the next system backup before I try it. Unknown tools from unknown developers is risky. When I plug in a usb drive, I want a drive letter assigned...NOTHING ELSE!!! Quote: > > As regards "killing the player": what you're trying to do there is not > supported. stuff is in the latter category. Third party system-destroying tools such as vLite might give Quote: > you what you want there initial install setup. Can I apply it after the fact? , but : you really would be taking a hammer to Quote: > your system and breaking it. I've never found ANY reason to knowingly activate wmplayer. Removing the player system may have unintended consequences with other players that expect certain OS support files. If I can just prevent it from executing, I'd be a happy camper. Renaming the file works for a while. If I could prevent it reinstalling itself, I'd be a happy camper. One man's breakage is another man's fixing. Quote: > |
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| | Re: Still Trying to KILL wmplayer.exe DEAD, DEAD, DEAD MollieAnn wrote: Quote: > Have you tried disabling the "Windows Media Center Extender Service" in > services? > (start, type "services.msc" (w/o quotes), then find above and > disable.) I just looked again. There's a thing called "windows media center service launcher". Says it's only used for TV, but I disabled it too. There were other windows media services set to manual. I disabled all of them. I'll see if that help. I thought I'd also disabled windows update, but it was running. Disabled that too. Will be interesting to see if my system boots. Thanks, mike Quote: > > Good luck! > > Mollie > > |
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| | Re: Still Trying to KILL wmplayer.exe DEAD, DEAD, DEAD "spamme0" <spamme9@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:glue3f$ph0$1@xxxxxx Quote: > zachd [MSFT] wrote: Quote: >> >> >> Let's step back to the beginning: ~why~ is the player using the CD >> player at that time when you're trying to burn? > My question exactly... > > If the player isn't Quote: >> burning, I don't believe it's going to try to acquire a lock on the >> burner: that seems like something else might be going on. >> What app are you using to burn? > imgburn 2.4.1.0 by another application but if you OK out and clear the message box and continue the burn works fine. I assumed it might be a problem with Imgburn. |
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| | Re: Still Trying to KILL wmplayer.exe DEAD, DEAD, DEAD "Dave-UK" <here@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:R--dnXo_fJlLXB_UnZ2dnUVZ8tXinZ2d@xxxxxx Quote: > > > "spamme0" <spamme9@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:glue3f$ph0$1@xxxxxx Quote: >> zachd [MSFT] wrote: Quote: >>> >>> >>> Let's step back to the beginning: ~why~ is the player using the CD >>> player at that time when you're trying to burn? >> My question exactly... >> >> If the player isn't Quote: >>> burning, I don't believe it's going to try to acquire a lock on the >>> burner: that seems like something else might be going on. >>> What app are you using to burn? >> imgburn 2.4.1.0 > When I used Imgburn I got a message about the drive being in use or locked or something > by another application but if you OK out and clear the message box and continue the burn works fine. > I assumed it might be a problem with Imgburn. > (and it works ok in Windows 7.) |
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| Windows Vista Home Premium | Re: Still Trying to KILL wmplayer.exe DEAD, DEAD, DEAD Ok so if your looking to kill mobsync.exe i have just posted a tutorial on how to disable it at the following link http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/22...bsync-exe.html regards Craig |
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