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Nope, I was having the problem before I installed anything. I had it before and figured it could have been an install issue, so reinstalled W7, run Windows Update etc. only, didn't install anything else, ran WMP12, then after telling it where to find my media it started throwing a fit.
Could it be due to video files that WMP12 needs codecs for, so it gets stuck? I don't normally use WMP for watching videos, I use another player, but have to import it into there to be able to use it on the 360 should I wish to do that.
Did WMP ever stop hammering your CPU?
I ended up stopping the service but now think of using Media Center and will have to start the WMP service again.
Was curious if the was a fix?
I installed (clean install) my Win7 a week or so after it first came out (via advanced purchace). Ran fine until a week or two ago, then I started having problems with it maxing out the CPU. I could "fix" it temporarily by rebooting, but sometimes it would take an hour to shut down, and sometime I just had to use the reset button!
Some investigation lead me to disable the wmpnetwk service and, so far, it has seemed fine. I hope it will stay fine.
Meanwhile, I need to ask if an update effecting wmpnetwk came out recently? Like I say, the system was fine until recently. I am fine without wmpnetwk.exe running as I don't do any media sharing, and don't even use wmp, but I would like to know why things changed.
Any thoughts?
Scott
If it's anything like my problem it will come back randomly
My CPU sometimes runs at 100%, but I'm pretty sure it's just throttling. Some modern processors slow down their clock speed or shut off some cores when not in much use.