When you go to Control Panel>Services what is the status of WMP?

"Bruce" <Bruce@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have this problem too. And, WMP does not show up in my task manager, so
> that solution doesn't help me at all. I'd love to add the script to my
> start
> up
>
> -echo START
> date /t
> time /t
> For /F "tokens=2" %%n in ('tasklist ^| Find "wmplayer.exe"') Do Set
> task=%%n
> echo %task%
> TaskKill /PID %task%
> Set task=
> echo END-
>
> but have not idea how to take the script and put it in start up. Do I
> save
> it as a Word .doc?
>
> Thanks for any help at all.
>
>
>
> "FlaDude" wrote:
>
>>
>> This is a bug in Vista and so far I have not seen a fix. Whats most
>> irritating is you can't even uninstall WM! Windows is so bad. If I
>> didn't need it for work (most large companies use it) I would use Linux
>> full time. However, because of other BS problems and compatibility
>> issues that cannot get resolved, I am waiting for a new hard drive for
>> my laptop and I am downgrading (if thats what you want to call it) back
>> to XP. I will keep the current harddrive with Vista as a fall back in
>> case I can't get all the drivers for this laptop (dv2315) or in case
>> Vista finally corrects its issues.
>>
>> Good luck with the WM problem!
>>
>>
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