Vista - Media Player stays running after closing

I have all the latest drivers for everyting, and I've installed Klite CODEC
pack (2.81F). Just about every time I close an AVI, typically encoded with
XVID, the wmplayer process continues to run and play the audio for the movie,
until I manually kill it. Even stranger is that it continues to play it even
after I delete it and empty the Recycle Bin (no sharing violation error).

Any enlightenment on how to get the player to quit when asked would be
appreciated. Of course, I can simply remember to press Stop before closing
it, which doesn't really fix anything, but at least I don't have to listen to
it continuing to play.

OS: Vista Ultimate 64-bit
CPU: Intel Core2 Duo
Video card: nVidia 7900GT
Sound card: X-Fi Platinum

I've found the same thing. However, if I stop (push the stop button) before
closing Media Player, then it shuts off. If I shut the program down without
first pushing "stop", then the audio continues.

Barry

"Hector" <Hector@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8D688BB0-499B-4F70-9E40-A7DF69B64A78@microsoft.com...
>I have all the latest drivers for everyting, and I've installed Klite CODEC
> pack (2.81F). Just about every time I close an AVI, typically encoded
> with
> XVID, the wmplayer process continues to run and play the audio for the
> movie,
> until I manually kill it. Even stranger is that it continues to play it
> even
> after I delete it and empty the Recycle Bin (no sharing violation error).
>
> Any enlightenment on how to get the player to quit when asked would be
> appreciated. Of course, I can simply remember to press Stop before
> closing
> it, which doesn't really fix anything, but at least I don't have to listen
> to
> it continuing to play.
>
> OS: Vista Ultimate 64-bit
> CPU: Intel Core2 Duo
> Video card: nVidia 7900GT
> Sound card: X-Fi Platinum