Hi

I'm running Windows XP SP2. Starting this morning, Windows Media Player has
started loading as soon as Windows starts up; and if I close it, it loads
again a minute or so later. This goes on happening however many times I
close it. I have updated both Spybot Search & Destroy and Spyware Blaster
today, and run Spybot's "Check for Problems" but it didn't find anything,
and WMP is still doing its Jason impersonation. What could be causing this,
and how does one stop it from happening?

Dave

I'm cross-posting this to microsoft.public.multimedia.windows.mediaplayer.

"Dave Logan" dsl.pipex.com> wrote in message
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Hi

I'm running Windows XP SP2. Starting this morning, Windows Media Player has
started loading as soon as Windows starts up; and if I close it, it loads
again a minute or so later. This goes on happening however many times I
close it. I have updated both Spybot Search & Destroy and Spyware Blaster
today, and run Spybot's "Check for Problems" but it didn't find anything,
and WMP is still doing its Jason impersonation. What could be causing this,
and how does one stop it from happening?

Dave

I've even tried going to "Set Program Access and Defaults", setting
RealPlayer as my default media player, and deselecting "Enable access to
this program" for WMP. I then rebooted and WMP immediately loaded!! In "Set
Program Access and Defaults", WMP is still disabled. yet it still won't go
away!!!! HELP!

"Dave Logan" dsl.pipex.com> wrote in message
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| I'm cross-posting this to microsoft.public.multimedia.windows.mediaplayer.
|
| "Dave Logan"...

If you're sure that you are free of malware, see if you can find where it's
starting from.

wmplayer.exe is version 8 or newer Windows Media Player.

mplayer2.exe is version 6.4.9.1125 Windows Media Player also included with
XP.

Open System Information...
Start | Run | Type: msinfo32 | Click OK |
Click the [+] next to Software Environment.
Click on Startup Programs.
Look in the right hand pane for any referrence to wmplayer.exe or
mplayer2.exe.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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This is easy to fix

Hi Wesley

"Wesley Vogel" <123WVogel955@comcast.net> wrote in message
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| If you're sure that you are free of malware

All I can be sure of is that the latest versions of Spybot Search & Destroy
and Spyware Blaster don't find anything; and nor does the latest version of
McAfee AntiVirus.

| see if you can find where it's starting from.
|
| wmplayer.exe is version 8 or newer Windows Media Player.
|
| mplayer2.exe is version 6.4.9.1125 Windows Media Player also included with
| XP.

According to WMP's Help + About, I have version 9.00.00.3250

I should add though that wmplayer.exe *is* listed in the right pane if I
click on Running Tasks.

Dave

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| Hi Wesley
|
| "Wesley Vogel" <123WVogel955@comcast.net> wrote in message
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Hi Alec

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Okay let's see. You can ignore the one's where it says wmplayer.exe in the Process column, we only want to see processes which open
the wmplayer.exe file.

Mcafee is going to be in there since it accesses .EXE files (it wouldn't be a very good virus scanner if it didn't) so we can ignore
those as well. You can put "*mcshield*;*mcafee*" (without the quotes) in the Exclude line of the filter dialog to ignore those.

Prefetch is unimportant as well, add ";*prefetch*" to the end of the Exclude line.

Try that to narrow it down. You can save the report to a LOG file which you can attach to your post instead of using a screenshot.

:)

Hi again Alec

"Alec S." <@> wrote in message news:OnDjbBvzGHA.4796@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

| Okay let's see. You can ignore the one's where it says wmplayer.exe in
the Process column, we only want to see processes which open
| the wmplayer.exe file.
|
| Mcafee is going to be in there since it accesses .EXE files (it wouldn't
be a very good virus scanner if it didn't) so we can ignore
| those as well. You can put "*mcshield*;*mcafee*" (without the quotes) in
the Exclude line of the filter dialog to ignore those.
|
| Prefetch is unimportant as well, add ";*prefetch*" to the end of the
Exclude line.
|
| Try that to narrow it down. You can save the report to a LOG file which
you can attach to your post instead of using a screenshot.