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WIndows Media Player continues running in the background after exiting

Anonymous
2021-04-11T21:01:05+00:00

Hi all,

I'm having an issue where if I close WMP, the actual process continues running in the background. 

For example, if I'm playing my music library and exit WMP via the window close (X) button, or via File menu -> Exit, the process still runs in the background. So what happens is, if later I watch a YouTube video or use any sort of media, whenever I use the play / pause button on my keyboard, whatever I was listening to on WMP continues playing even though I closed the program.

Any fixes or workarounds for this besides opening task manager and killing the WMP process? This only recently started happening, so I assume this may be caused by a recent update?

Currently I'm running the most recent version of Windows 10.

Thanks!

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Windows update

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-04-11T21:58:09+00:00

    Hi KillerSix50

    How are you? I hope you are doing good.

    Welcome to Microsoft Community. I am Juliet, an independent advisor. It's my pleasure to help you today. I know how frustrating this may be for you but I'll do my best to help you :)

    To help troubleshoot error messages and other issues, you can start Windows by using a minimal set of drivers and startup programs. This kind of startup is known as a "clean boot." A clean boot helps eliminate software conflicts.

    Try to perform clean boot and check if it helps, here is the link:

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135

    Note: After you have finished diagnosing, follow step 7 in the article to boot to normal startup.

    I hope it helps! Let me know the result,

    I'll wait for your update.

    source:

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-t...

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-t...

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-04-11T23:20:19+00:00

    Have you tried reverting you update?

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-04-11T23:30:20+00:00

    No, because I'm not sure when this started happening. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling WMP through the 'Add or remove features' menu in Windows Settings, but that didn't work.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-04-11T23:35:14+00:00

    Oh, I see. Let us try another possible resolution

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