imgburn thinks windows media player is open

[shadow ho-oh]

when i start burning my iso, there comes an error saying that windows media player is open and must be closed even though its not there. so i tried opening it and closing it again and unplugging my headphones AND muting the sound system and it still says Windows media player is open and must be closed. Any help??

Edited August 9, 2010 by shadow ho-oh

[mmalves]

Tried rebooting the computer? You could also try using Process Explorer to find and kill whatever process is holding your burner.

[LIGHTNING UK!]

If it says media player is open then the wmplayer.exe process is running.

 

Use Task Manager or Process Explorer (as mmalves mentioned) to kill it.

[shadow ho-oh]

well i didn't do anything and just left it for a couple hours and it worked again, but this problem comes up quite a bit for me so next time it happens i'll try it. thanks for the advice. I'm a complete noob at fixing technological errors.