wmpnetwk.exe
| File Name: | wmpnetwk.exe | ||
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| The wmpnetwk.exe process is an executable file of Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service. It is responsible for sharing Windows Media Player libraries. | |||
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| The wmpnetwk.exe process is a non-essential process. Disabling it or enabling it is down to the user's preferences. | |||
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| Jim |
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86 1 Report Abuse | |
| Used by Windows Media Player. If you share media with other computers, leave it on. Otherwise, you can turn it off. | |||
| Jay C. |
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8 0 Report Abuse | |
| Has about 10 host processes running from 5k to 115k in memory. Don't know what it does, will remove and see if CPU cools off. | |||
| Txguy |
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9 0 Report Abuse | |
| If wmpnetwk.exe keeps tying up resources you can disable Windows Media Player media sharing. 1. In Windows Media Player turn off media sharing in the library tab right click on it > click "media sharing" unclick the media sharing tab and click ok 2. Turn off the "WMPnetwk.exe" service Under the "RUN" command in the start menu type "services.msc". Then Scroll down to "Windows media player network sharing" Double click and under startup type set to disabled. | |||
| no user |
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2 7 Report Abuse | |
| non of these solutions seem to exist in windows 7 media player | |||
| Jeff |
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4 0 Report Abuse | |
| If you share media with other computers on your network this is a good thing to have start up or you can turn it on just by opening windows media player and clicking off (if you dont want it to come on during startup) | |||
| Paul |
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0 0 Report Abuse | |
| Thanks Txguy. My disk was doing 100% disk access and when I turnd this off it went to 13%. WOW!! Thank you Sir. | |||
| Justin Case |
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4 30 Report Abuse | |
| During the periodic bug hunt, the process showed 50% of CPU resources were being used somewhere, and it was this one. Turned it off, and experienced dramatic increase in system performance! | |||
| Burlroad |
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2 0 Report Abuse | |
| Used Txguy's instructions and turned wmpnetwk.exe off. We'll see if it frees up any resources. | |||
| Amin Regine |
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44 15 Report Abuse | |
| Very dangerousidentity hijack mal/spyware | |||
| Alex |
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3 0 Report Abuse | |
| Fantastic! Spread the word, this really takes a lot of wear of your HDD. | |||
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