wmplayer.exe running after Vista boot up

[IreneL]

This is just 3 months old Vista desktop and already started slowing down while bootup. Am facing this problem since a week, so today I checked the Task Manager and found that wmplayer.exe and wmpnscfg.exe are running with the startup and eating pretty good resources. So could this be the problem?

[Agilent]

These processes starts with Windows only if you have anything connected with your device. Any external device.

Is there something connected with your desktop?

[IreneL]

Wow, thanks for that useful info mate. I think that was the problem. Yes, I use to have connected two devices, one is pendrive that I use as extra memory and one WD external Hard drive for backup. But as you said I removed them and now my boot up time has improved to some extent.

But the only problem left is still wmplayer.exe can be seen running with windows. Is that safe?

[attitude.ashwin]

Just keep Task Manager opened and launch Windows Media Player and see if any changes occur in that wmplayer.exe. I mean, if you get two such process running. Also how much memory is it eating when WMP is not running.