Why Does Windows Media Player Not Close?

[LedHed]

After closing it from the program the app is still active in Task Manager and is using 30mb of RAM and CPU cycles. WTF?

This is in Windows 7 Pro btw.

[Kingcarcas]

What's the name of the process? Could be something else it's tied into, like the extender service or something.

[LedHed]

wmplayer.exe *32, I have also noticed this on a few other programs like AIM and firefox.

it's like W7 is leaving open their executable to reduce load times, I mean I have 8Gb of RAM but I'd still like the programs to turn off.

[Earzz]

I also had this problem, with me it was Windows Sideshow what was causing the problem.
Just try to disable it, Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Windows Sideshow > Windows Media Player.

Hopefully this will work for you.