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Quickie: Disable Alt-Shift-P Media Player

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My latest victory against Windows Media Player: disabling alt-shift-P. I don’t know how many times I hit that by accident and it loads up wmplayer.exe, freezes while it does a bunch of stuff, and then I can close it.

Solution: I had the mini player toolbar thing enabled. So right-click the task bar, and un-check Windows Media Player.

Alt-Shift-P is mine again.

Now if I can just figure out how to make mobsync.exe stop loading wmplayer.exe every time I plug in my phone…

March 12th, 2009 at 10:51 am

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  1. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you… just what I needed. :-)

    David Heys

    23 Apr 09 at 4:46 am

  2. me too, thank you very much.

    Anonymous

    2 Dec 09 at 1:03 am

  3. Thank you!!!!

    AAA

    15 Dec 10 at 9:49 am

  4. Thanks!!

    Aurora

    8 Jun 11 at 12:51 am

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