wmplayer.exe running after Vista boot up

Why are wmplayer.exe and wmpnscfg.exe running after startup? I have been
checking Windows Task Manager because I have been having problems with slow
boot after I get to the desktop. Windows says that my video is "thrashing"
and close some programs but nothing is running.

zachd
Sat Jun 21 01:57:36 PDT 2008


Is some device attached that might be trying to sync to the player?

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"Escapee" <Escapee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Why are wmplayer.exe and wmpnscfg.exe running after startup? I have been
> checking Windows Task Manager because I have been having problems with
> slow
> boot after I get to the desktop. Windows says that my video is "thrashing"
> and close some programs but nothing is running.

Escapee
Sat Jun 21 03:19:01 PDT 2008

I have a Western Digital external USB hard drive that I use for backup. I was
also using a USB flash drive as extra memory but I have since removed that
because of the incessant disk activity slowing things down. This has
considerably improved my startup time but has not eliminated wmplayer.exe
from running. I have also checked my WM settings and can't see anything that
might be causing it to run at startup.

"zachd [MSFT]" wrote:

>
> Is some device attached that might be trying to sync to the player?
>
>

zachd
Sun Jun 29 13:53:57 PDT 2008


If that USB hard drive is not connected at system boot, does the player
still start... ?

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"Escapee" <Escapee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a Western Digital external USB hard drive that I use for backup. I
>was
> also using a USB flash drive as extra memory but I have since removed that
> because of the incessant disk activity slowing things down. This has
> considerably improved my startup time but has not eliminated wmplayer.exe
> from running. I have also checked my WM settings and can't see anything
> that
> might be causing it to run at startup.
>
> "zachd [MSFT]" wrote:
>
>>
>> Is some device attached that might be trying to sync to the player?
>>
>>