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MP11 hogging serious resources.
After solving my WMP homegroup "play to" problems (seen here) rather easily, there's one thing I'm noticing as a drawback.
Every so often - and whenever I launch WMP, WMC, or browse any of my media libraries - a process called wmpnetwk.exe takes off and hogs some serious CPU and RAM. (Along the lines of >90% CPU and >75% RAM.)
In my Googling, I've found that you can halt it by launching services.msc and stopping the Media Player Sharing service. Those uninterested in sharing their media have disabled it altogether and changed the startup to "manual" and it solves their problem.
I, being interested in the Play-To feature and the fact that my desktop PC is active as a sort of media/file server for other computers on my LAN, have to keep this service running. I do disable it when it gets in my way, but I leave the startup option set to "automatic" in services.msc. Under system performance settings, I changed the prioritizer to schedule for programs rather than background services, and that seems to help a little, too.
Is this a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't situation? I want to have the sharing and streaming and all that enabled, but I don't want WMP to go through and re-index ALL my content every time I open a player or browse a folder. In my searching, I see it's been a problem for a while now, predating WMP11 and WMC by a couple years.
Does anyone know if there is there a way to control this runaway process?