WMC kicks on when quiting certain application

[grimlock16]

When I close a video game, currently Guild Wars, WMC kicks on after i quit the game and I'm really puzzled as to why.

I have other video games but I'm not currently playing them on W7 so not sure if its just the one game or others do this. The only other game I have had installed does not do this. I just find it puzzling WMC decides it needs to load when i close that one game..

w7 64 bit
7100 build
up to date on updates

 

[johngalt]

Could it be that it is trying to play a video when you kill it?

 

[grimlock16]

no, there is no video when I close it, I just hit the X close button and or the exit button and it comes up sadly..

 

[mikinho]

Do you have any addins installed that would monitor for closing apps? A launcher type application?

 

[grimlock16]

nope no monitors except for antivirus running, well and windows firewall.. but nothing related to that.

 

[johngalt]

Have you tried re-installing Guild Wars to see if it still occurs? Are you using any type of No-CD patch for GW, or else any sort of trainer / crack for it? Other than those, I have no idea why WMC keeps starting up like that....

 

[grimlock16]

No, I have no no-cd patch or anything, I have a legit account with GW which is an online MMORPG. I have tried reinstalling it but same.. Its just weird I was just curious if anyone else had this problem I guess not so far

 

[johngalt]

Nope - so I think it might be a combination of things.

have you modified your WMC in any way? What other apps are you running? What about while playing GW, anything else running that you can stop (such as IMs, background services, etc)?

I think that GW is trying to load *something* and that something is somehow associated with WMC - hence WMC loads.

Unfortunately, I don't have GW nor an account to play so I cannot verify this - hopefully someone else with the game can verify if something can be set to load on exit.

 

[grimlock16]

No I did not modify WMC in any way.. the only thing i did was adjust the quality of recordings but that was it really..

Guild wars has a client download you can download at guildwars.com even if you don't have an account but takes a long while to download all the content.

The only thing running in the background is antivirus and cpu monitor but nothing out of the ordinary.. it's probably just some fluke.. idk

 

[johngalt]

Is your AV set to ignore the GW directory?

 

[grimlock16]

how could I ask it to ignore it's directory?

 

[valtonray]

i know this is a very old post but since i was doing a search for guildwars players on the forums i figure i'll answer it incase someone else has this problem. the user or someone else on the user's pc set an argument in target location of the shortcut being used, in this case it would be something like gw.exe-mce telling the game it can be launched from WMC and also reopening WMC when the game is closed regardless of where it was opened from. to fix the problem remove "-mce" from the target field under properties.