Comments on: Windows Media Player 12 – wmplayer.exe or wmpnetwk.exe 100% CPU – FIX

By: Aileen

Aileen — Fri, 03 May 2013 04:52:08 +0000

Hello, I enjoy reading through your post. I wanted to write a little comment to support
you.

By: AAS

AAS — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 11:19:36 +0000

Grandioso, gran solución, me funciono muy bien y a si ya solo lo activare cuando yo quiera…

By: joseph ferrante

joseph ferrante — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:00:10 +0000

I looked in the directory you said in windows 7 cant find that file.

By: Michale Foshee

Michale Foshee — Mon, 21 May 2012 02:12:22 +0000

One thing I’d like to say is always that before acquiring more computer memory, check out the machine directly into which it would be installed. In case the machine is usually running Windows XP, for instance, the actual memory limit is 3.25GB. Applying more than this would easily constitute just a waste. Make certain that one’s motherboard can handle this upgrade quantity, as well. Good blog post.

By: liam

liam — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:05:46 +0000

Woa, I know its been months, but just in case anyone else happens to run here, let me address what Geoff was having issues with.

The problem you’re experiencing is because you did not delete the wmdb file, or rather, you didn’t place a dummy with 0 bytes. It is important that you try to make it 0.

To do this, you’d goto the folder in question, create an empty file (with Notepad for instance, by Right Clicking in an empty space, selecting New, then Text Document), and then rename this new file to your wmdb file, which should usually be CurrentDatabase_372.wmdb.

For that to work, you’d have to either rename the wmdb file that’s already in place or delete it. If windows tells you that the file cannot be changed cause its in use, it means your Windows Media Player is open, or at least its process is still active. To solve that, you have to goto the Task Manager, and kill the process belonging to Windows Media Player.

By: Geoff Leonard

Geoff Leonard — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 15:56:13 +0000

Hi:

On the face of it this sounded good to me but in practice WMP simply recreated the CurrentDatabase file every time I played something in WMP! So I still have 100% CPU and no solution.

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:37:04 +0000

my file you said to tweak was allready read only so I went into the file media player and just right clicked all the blue configuration files and put them to read only. Hopefully will have the same effect but I wouldn’t really know

By: GieJay

GieJay — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 11:58:14 +0000

Awesome! Thanks for these great solution, it was really frustrating me, I disabled the wmpnetwork but that wasn’t really a good solution cause I still need my Xbox to work as an extender. Now my xbox still works and cpu is down to zero, thanks!