Mac Forum / Applications / Media Player / August 2007

I have a new Acer Aspire 3100 notebook running Vista Home Basic. It locked
up, ie, failed, every time I tried to Hibernate or Sleep it. After a bunch of
hit-or-miss time with the Task Manager, it appears that Windows Media Player
sometimes loads itself up as a Process (not as an application), and in that
state, the PC locked up everytime I tried to Hibernate it. If I manually end
the Process of Windows Media Player in Task Manager, it seems to work every
time.
1 - Has anyone else encountered this?
1.a. - Is Media Player a likely suspect?
2 - How can one keep Media Player from loading ITSELF as a process? Thanks.
JL