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Clarke - 29 Jun 2004 00:24 GMT

I am using XP Home. When I log on as any of 3 users
windows media player opens during boot, stays open and my
sound disapears. If I restart the computer, my sound is
back until I log in and media player opens again. This is
a new problem and I have not changed any settings or
added any software for over two weeks.

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zachd [ms] - 29 Jun 2004 08:29 GMT

Does
http://www.nwlink.com/~zachd/pss/pss.html#startup
help you clean this up?

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>I am using XP Home. When I log on as any of 3 users
> windows media player opens during boot, stays open and my
> sound disapears. If I restart the computer, my sound is
> back until I log in and media player opens again. This is
> a new problem and I have not changed any settings or
> added any software for over two weeks.

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Clarke - 29 Jun 2004 23:53 GMT

No!. Sorry it took so long to get back. Thanks for your
reply. The only file that was in question from that sites
programs was c\windows\csrss.exe. I did not delete or fix
this file. I tried pcdoctor and one other fix site. No
solving this problem yet. A deep file search does not
produce any files related to the ones described on the
website. I have ad-aware and Norton virus scanned. I am
clean by these software programs. Thoughts? Thanks again.

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zachd [ms] - 30 Jun 2004 07:31 GMT

The player should likely be starting up based upon
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
or so. Unfortunately, WMP doesn't have any ability to set itself to start
on startup, so ... I'd have little idea how it got put in that position
other than that the only real known cause of this is 3rd party nastyware.
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-Z

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> No!. Sorry it took so long to get back. Thanks for your
> reply. The only file that was in question from that sites
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Clarke - 30 Jun 2004 23:12 GMT

Thanks for trying. I agree that a third party "new" bug
has gotten my WMP9. I have been using all known programs
to find or identify this and clean it up, but all
programs give me an all clean message. I guess I am stuck
for now. Who needs sound anyway.

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>The player should likely be starting up based upon

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersio
n\Run

>or so. Unfortunately, WMP doesn't have any ability to set itself to start
>on startup, so ... I'd have little idea how it got put in that position
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Clarke - 30 Jun 2004 23:16 GMT

I forgot. The is no startup reference in the HKEY you
described. No loader, no nothing except what should be in
startup. Some day I will get an answer and post it.

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>The player should likely be starting up based upon

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersio
n\Run

>or so. Unfortunately, WMP doesn't have any ability to set itself to start
>on startup, so ... I'd have little idea how it got put in that position
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