Vista - Media Player Starts Automatically, All the time

On my Vista box media player is starting in the background without being asked. How can I prevent this? It starts up and sucks cpu. Also, sometimes when I exit media player, the process remains.

thanks!

Adam
go to start search type msconfig hit enter go to startup remove check mark from media player.
Chuck
"adam.hodge" <no@spam.com> wrote in message news:0C97F0E5-6B8F-4FA3-A39E-181DFC6E2011@microsoft.com...
On my Vista box media player is starting in the background without being asked. How can I prevent this? It starts up and sucks cpu. Also, sometimes when I exit media player, the process remains.

thanks!

No, that is for startup at boot. What I mean is that the process just starts running in the background even though I end it. I think websites are starting it but the process won't exit.
"Chuck" <chickr@cox.net> wrote in message news:uZOQeuuyHHA.1100@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
Adam
go to start search type msconfig hit enter go to startup remove check mark from media player.
Chuck
"adam.hodge" <no@spam.com> wrote in message news:0C97F0E5-6B8F-4FA3-A39E-181DFC6E2011@microsoft.com...
On my Vista box media player is starting in the background without being asked. How can I prevent this? It starts up and sucks cpu. Also, sometimes when I exit media player, the process remains.

thanks!

It's using 7-10% of my cpu even though I've totally disabled it. If you kill
the process, it comes back to life within minutes even if nothing else is
running that could possibly trigger it. I've disabled all media related
services, eliminated all startup folder commands, all registry "run" and
"runonce" entries even slightly related to medai, changed all file type
defaults to other players, disabled access on default programs -- but it
still starts.

I do not use media player and do NOT want it running in the background using
10% of my CPU to no known purpose. Please someone come up with a stake
through the heart or whatever it takes to kill this zombie.

thanks,
TEK!

"Chuck" wrote:

> Adam
> go to start search type msconfig hit enter go to startup remove check mark from media player.
> Chuck
> "adam.hodge" <no@spam.com> wrote in message news:0C97F0E5-6B8F-4FA3-A39E-181DFC6E2011@microsoft.com...
> On my Vista box media player is starting in the background without being asked. How can I prevent this? It starts up and sucks cpu. Also, sometimes when I exit media player, the process remains.
>
> thanks!

Found it! The software for the Dell Bidirectional Gyro Mouse Remote Control
starts wmplayer.exe no matter how many times you kill the process. You can
stop wmplayer completely by following all the other steps, plus on a Dell
with Advanced Remote, disable the WMPControllerService service. I'll try to
get a patch from Dell.

Thanks,
TEK!

"TEK!" wrote:

> It's using 7-10% of my cpu even though I've totally disabled it. If you kill
> the process, it comes back to life within minutes even if nothing else is
> running that could possibly trigger it. I've disabled all media related
> services, eliminated all startup folder commands, all registry "run" and
> "runonce" entries even slightly related to medai, changed all file type
> defaults to other players, disabled access on default programs -- but it
> still starts.
>
> I do not use media player and do NOT want it running in the background using
> 10% of my CPU to no known purpose. Please someone come up with a stake
> through the heart or whatever it takes to kill this zombie.
>
> thanks,
> TEK!
>
> "Chuck" wrote:
>
> > Adam
> > go to start search type msconfig hit enter go to startup remove check mark from media player.
> > Chuck
> > "adam.hodge" <no@spam.com> wrote in message news:0C97F0E5-6B8F-4FA3-A39E-181DFC6E2011@microsoft.com...
> > On my Vista box media player is starting in the background without being asked. How can I prevent this? It starts up and sucks cpu. Also, sometimes when I exit media player, the process remains.
> >
> > thanks!