annoying windows vista bug

[cujo]

i've searched google for an answer to no avail.

basically, i can close windows media player and it'll close and not be in my processes list. a little while later i'll go look in my processes and see it's been opened again. WTH!!?? it's really irritating because when i try and play a song or video it'll start playing but you only hear audio. the program doesn't actually open up again.

anyone experiencing this or know of a fix?