wmpnetwk.exe

The wmpnetwk.exe process is an executable file of Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service. It is responsible for sharing Windows Media Player libraries.

Recommendation:

The wmpnetwk.exe process is a non-essential process. Disabling it or enabling it is down to the user's preferences.

Users Opinions

Jay C.		Has about 10 host processes running from 5k to 115k in memory. Don't know what it does, will remove and see if CPU cools off. 0 0 Report Abuse
Amin Regine		Very dangerousidentity hijack mal/spyware 0 2 Report Abuse
Kenpachi		Had my hdd running 24/7. Wouldn't care so much if my case and hdd were the quiet type but it was too annoying to ignore. Disabled it and all is peaceful again. Did not hog cpu or ram for me though. Just had my hdd grinding constantly. 0 0 Report Abuse
Yvanoph		Window Media Player 0 0 Report Abuse
Rich		no way other than block/end process with tm or utilities on win7 media player 12?? can it be restarted at a later date if i end process now? uses a lot of resources. advice please?! 0 1 Report Abuse
Alex		Fantastic! Spread the word, this really takes a lot of wear of your HDD. 0 0 Report Abuse
Burlroad		Used Txguy's instructions and turned wmpnetwk.exe off. We'll see if it frees up any resources. 0 0 Report Abuse
Justin Case		During the periodic bug hunt, the process showed 50% of CPU resources were being used somewhere, and it was this one. Turned it off, and experienced dramatic increase in system performance! 0 0 Report Abuse
Paul		Thanks Txguy. My disk was doing 100% disk access and when I turnd this off it went to 13%. WOW!! Thank you Sir. 0 0 Report Abuse
Jeff		If you share media with other computers on your network this is a good thing to have start up or you can turn it on just by opening windows media player and clicking off (if you dont want it to come on during startup) 0 0 Report Abuse
no user		non of these solutions seem to exist in windows 7 media player 0 0 Report Abuse
Txguy		If wmpnetwk.exe keeps tying up resources you can disable Windows Media Player media sharing. 1. In Windows Media Player turn off media sharing in the library tab right click on it > click \"media sharing\" unclick the media sharing tab and click ok 2. Turn off the \"WMPnetwk.exe\" service Under the \"RUN\" command in the start menu type \"services.msc\". Then Scroll down to \"Windows media player network sharing\" Double click and under startup type set to disabled. 2 0 Report Abuse
Jim		Used by Windows Media Player. If you share media with other computers, leave it on. Otherwise, you can turn it off. 2 0 Report Abuse
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