Comments on: What is wmpnetwk.exe ? Can I stop it ?

By: Morgan Madej

Morgan Madej — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 04:48:59 +0000

My 4 years old MaxData notebook running Win XP has only 2mb of ram and the Windows Media Player Network sharing Service file was consuming 40k of memory for no reason as I hate WMP!

As from today this file is gone from my Task Manager!

Thanks to your advice I am free at last of wmpnetwk.exe

By: rad_thundercat

rad_thundercat — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:02:03 +0000

With all the bullshit one finds on the web when searching for process explanations, finding this post was like a breathe of fresh air.

Thank you for taking the time to do a nice write-up rather than baiting searchers with SEO hacks.

Keep it up!

By: keith

keith — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 12:34:39 +0000

im running windows 7 and it does the same thing…. just do the second option the first didnt seem to want to work….. oh by the way thanks now my laptop is finally working to the performance it should

By: cb

cb — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:55:23 +0000

thank you!

By: Latonya Moore

Latonya Moore — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:58:13 +0000

What about stopping this in Windows 7????

By: Curt Brunings

Curt Brunings — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:52:58 +0000

Thanks guys!!!!!!

By: Lucas

Lucas — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:21:31 +0000

Thanks! stopping the service with Services.msc was the solution!
It was eating my battery life..

By: Rohit

Rohit — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:53:23 +0000

Nice post!