windows media player help

[Guest]

does anyone know how to stop windows media player 9 from loading on startup

--jenn

 

[roger]

Hi Jenn,

does anyone know how to stop windows media player 9 from loading on startup?

--jenn

From:

WMP mini FAQ
http://www.nwlink.com/~zachd/pss/pss.html

"If WMP is launching at the start-up of your system, this is likely
because 3rd party trojan spamware has infected your system.
"iedll.exe" for some reasons registers WMP to launch on system
start-up - possibly to cover it's own tracks? Regardless, get and run
the (free) LavaSoft AdAware anti-spyware software (or SpyBot anti-spy
software, or the dedicated CoolWebSearch/iedll.exe killer program),
which will clean up iedll.exe. Then you will want to go to
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run" in
regedit.exe. There you will likely find a value name entitled
"loader". If this has the data value pointing to wmplayer.exe, delete
this registry value"

Good luck

 

[Willie]

I "Borrowed" this info from someones answer to a Windows Media question
earlier...Hope it helps;

Willie

Visit the Windows Media Player Newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsmedia.player

Windows Media Player FAQ
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/player/faq.aspx

WMP mini FAQ
http://www.nwlink.com/~zachd/pss/pss.html

Windows Media Player Support Center
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=FH;[LN];wmp

Good luck