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| Thread ID: 35465 | 2003-07-13 13:53:00 | Media Player mysteriously starting up | amitluis (4153) | Press F1 |
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| 159421 | 2003-07-18 05:04:00 | Susan: I did run Adaware with the latest reference file but I will do it again when I get back home tonight after work. Will also try those programs you mentioned about? They are definitely "safe" programs right? Tommy: Yeah, I was curious about that as well but for some reason I cannot find the url it tries to connect to. I just the error dialogue box stating that the path is invalid , or something to that effect. |
amitluis (4153) | ||
| 159422 | 2003-07-18 06:15:00 | Media player has an automatic update facility. This is because when you copy tracks from a Cd into Media Player only the track numbers are shown and it is necessary to get the details from the internet which is done by clicking on "Get Album Info" button when Media player will connect to the internet and get the details and fill them in. This is is quite miraculous to watch. As a back up in case something changes or you havent done it you can schedule Media Player to do it itself, which is probably what is happening. In Media player go to Tools/Options then click on the "Player" tab and under "Automatic updates" you have options "Once a day" "Once a week" "Once a month" so pick "Once a month: if you are not copying a lot of music. Best of luck. |
abjp (278) | ||
| 159423 | 2003-07-19 00:33:00 | Abjp, my version of Media Player (6.4) does not (appear to) have an automatic update facility. I've double-checked in the options as well. Moreover, I've been using this version for over 5 yrs now without any of this happen before. And no, it's not trying to connect to get "Album info" either - I've checked all that as well - this version does not even have the CDDB functionality that I think you are referring to. Susan - will hopefully do what you've suggested tonight. Thanks everyone for your assistance - I'm sure we can crack this ! |
amitluis (4153) | ||
| 159424 | 2003-07-19 02:55:00 | My non geek solution to this would be to uninstall, remove, delete, wipe and then get rid of Media Player and re-download it. | mark c (247) | ||
| 159425 | 2003-07-19 03:08:00 | Might I suggest updating WMP to a more recent version? | Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 159426 | 2003-07-19 03:37:00 | what more important is what is makeing media player start up. there must be something in startup doing it (or a driver of some sort). i would be inclinded to what programs are running in the background and also any files, dll etc are open. if its only doing it sometimes it could be a bit of a job tracking what it is :( |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 159427 | 2003-07-19 03:52:00 | This is one on weird problem! Here is a idea 1. Go throw windows Media Player& see if there is any urls listed in Media Player, which is the same as what comes up at start up. |
stu140103 (137) | ||
| 159428 | 2003-07-20 16:36:00 | Susan: I've now run Adaware and Spybot with the latest definitions. I was quite intrigued when Adaware picked up additional files, given that I ran it probably only about 3 days ago with the same definition file. Spybot had a registry reference to Media Player that I thought was unusual; I've deleted that and let's see if any of this helps. I've also emailed you the results of HijackThis and BHOList as requested. Tommy: As mentioned earlier, we're unable to find out what the url it connects to is. Mark: I don't think it's MediaPlayer per se that's causing it, rather it's some other application that uses Media Player. Let's see, I might do that if all else fails. ChillingSilently: My PC is quite old and 6.4 serves my needs perfectly. I did install ver.7 ages ago and it was too bloated for my(and my PC's) liking. Tweak'e: I've checked all that you've suggested. No urls listed. I wonder if ver.6.4 even keeps a history as I could find no way of enabling it. Cheers ! Amit |
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