Neil
Fri Mar 14 16:22:45 PDT 2008
You've said randomly - but is there a pattern ? It might be worth
lookin in the windows scheduled tasks folder to see if a video or
playlist has been added to run frequently ?
What other media software do you have on that PC other than what's
installed by default in XP ?
Cheers - Neil
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:48:03 -0700, Shasaja
<Shasaja@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>I don't think that's it. Media player opens randomly, not just when I boot
>my computer. It will often re-open immediately after I have closed it (this
>has happened as many as 5 times within 2 minutes). That site also suggests
>using Ad-Aware to remove the Trojan in question, which I have done several
>times since this problem started occurring.
>
>"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:40:02 -0700, Shasaja
>> <Shasaja@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>>
>> >Recently Windows Media Player has started opening on its own. I never use
>> >this program, and I have not changed any settings on my computer which should
>> >effect it. It frequently interrupts me while I am performing other tasks,
>> >including minimizing applications that take up the whole screen. Is there
>> >anything I can do to stop this?
>>
>>
>> Check Item number 13 on ZachDs page :
>>
http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html#wmp9
>>
>> Check carefully to see if there's something not right there.
>>
>> HTH
>> Cheers - Neil
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