WMP12 at Start Up

Win7 64 Ult...I have looked in Start, msconfig, and WMP12 Options, and I can't find out how to stop WMP from starting up with Windows. Please, any ideas?

When you say WMP starting up with Windows, do you mean that when you login to Windows, the WMP 12 Window shows up as if you opened it? Additionally, as far as msconfig goes, I would suggest going to the "Startup" tab and disabling all the start-up programs to see if this stops WMP from launching.

Darician..Thanks for the reply. I will give that a try.

You had some good suggestions here Did you try the third suggestion that was recommended to you?

Type services.msc in the start search box. click on the "services" gear. When the window opens, scroll down to Windows Media Center (there are 2), right click, choose Properties and set both to 'manual'.

I am going to try them all, one at a time, until something works. I was just looking to get any and all ideas before I tried.

Jacee said:

Type services.msc in the start search box. click on the "services" gear. When the window opens, scroll down to Windows Media Center (there are 2), right click, choose Properties and set both to 'manual'.

Jacee,

Both of the Windows Media Centers are set to manual, but the Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service is set at 'automatic'. Could that be the issue?

Set it to manual and see :)

iluvink said:

Jacee said:

Type services.msc in the start search box. click on the "services" gear. When the window opens, scroll down to Windows Media Center (there are 2), right click, choose Properties and set both to 'manual'.

Jacee,

Both of the Windows Media Centers are set to manual, but the Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service is set at 'automatic'. Could that be the issue?

That shouldn't be it. All that does is allow you to share files from WMP to compatible devices and other Windows PCs but it shouldn't start Windows Media Player up.