Windows Media Player won't release files

[Tumps]

Sorry if in wrong section, please move if needed!

After watching a video or listening to Music on WMP, I then try to cut and paste the file somewhere else or delete it

but I can't because WMP hasn't closed (it's waiting in background) and released the file....

I have to keep going into Task Manager and close WMP there.......

Any clues on how to solve this???

[cluberti]

Might want to get a process hang dump of the wmplayer.exe process when it's in this state (no UI, but hasn't closed out) to see what it's doing.

[ricktendo]

Happens to me too sometimes...I just open the taskmgr and kill it