Media Player is still running when Microsoft Media Center is open

When I used to open the Media Center to view images, WMP never turned on unless I played music. Now he runs and use about 50% CPU just to look at a few pictures.  I stopped using Process Explorer - process to kill, but he did it again.

I have not found a way to disable Media Center or WMP.  I'm only interested in turning off to avoid the 50% CPU usage and would like to know how to to this topic.  I have Vista SP2 and WMP 11.

Thanks for your help,
Canoetoday

Hi canoetoday,

Good to hear that the problem is solved and your efforts to solve this problem is appreciated.

You can disable windows media player turn for anything which requires audio.

Thank you, and in what concerns:

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