Avast V5 sounds

I have just installed the free version and found that there are 2 additional processes called 'Windows Media Player network.....'
I disabled all sound, restarted, but they are still there.

Any help?

 

Pardon me but how did you make sure that these belong to avast!? Also can you post the exact name of these processes?

 

Those seem to be related to Windows Media Player. Which would have nothing to do with Avast sounds.

 

wmpnetwk.exe & wmpnscfg.exe
You are right of course, its just that they were not there before & now they are.

They are not in the start-up group only avastui has been added

I have done a complete scan with Avast & PrevX

 

They are services not programs and neither are harmful. They are used with WMP.

You can disable the services for them by going to start > run > services.msc and finding Windows Media Player Network Sharing Services and disable that. Im not sure what the other one is.

 

Ok I did that & stopped it (the other one is the config file)
It was set to manual & started.

I rebooted and its back
So I have an issue, I need to trace whatever is calling this service - any ideas

 

You have to stop it and disable it both.

 

Did that too and then found an article
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/wind...exe-and-wmpnetwkexe-and-why-are-they-running/

Gone now, thanks all

I remembered something else that may have done it - Opera 10.52 update
Vista firewall flagged after this update, but it was allowed

 

Ah, maybe they've bundled media streaming server now... another musthave for a browser.