Windows Media Player opens up to everything
 

Ok, I don't really understand this. Every time I insert a piece of hardware into one of my laptop's ports, whether it's plugging in my printer or inserting my SD card into its slot, the Windows Media Player program automatically opens up. Clearly my printer should have nothing to do with WMP for instance. I use Windows Vista as my OS (no comments on bashing Vista please, as that is irrelevant to solving the problem).

This isn't a file association issue unlike other troubleshooting problems people have on the net. If my WMP opened to a file type I didn't want, I would simply change the configuration to open up to the file types I want (control panel --> programs --> default programs --> associate a file type or protocol with a program). But my problem seem to occur whenever my laptop registers with an inserted hardware.

I tried a thorough search on this issue, but google searches come short on this. Help please?????

Re: Windows Media Player opens up to everything
 

Update your drivers ?

When did it start ?

Re: Windows Media Player opens up to everything
 

I can't remember it started. But it certainly didn't happen at first. I'd say it started happening around earlier this year, and became noticeable a few months ago.

And what about the drivers? If this issue began happening more recently, I wouldn't say that the drivers were out of date in the first place. I dunno why this issue is happening now.

Re: Windows Media Player opens up to everything
 

Restore it to a s far back as you can? I doubt it'll restore months back though, but it's worth a shot.

Re: Windows Media Player opens up to everything
 

Seems like all the autoplay and possible registry issues that I could think of didn't fix the problem.

Time to delete wmp. =)

Re: Windows Media Player opens up to everything
 

Update wmp or change the autoplay options.