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Windows media player pause when switching users

  • Oct 18, 2025
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A started music playback continues to run in the Windows Mediaplayer in a switch user. How you stop the playback, we will show you in this practical tip.

Windows media player for switching users stop

The music reproduction is by default active in the Background and let the other account, not more taxes. There is the Windows media player you can also start. The runs parallel, in an additional process. Because of this double play is likely to be, in practice, only rarely desirable, to prohibit this behavior in the options of the application:
  1. Start Windows media player. To access the menu, click with the right mouse button on a free place of the top control bar, or press the [Alt] key.
  2. Open the command "view | Plug-Ins | options".
  3. Go to the tab "Player".
  4. There you activate the Option "stop playback when the user is changed".
  5. Confirm one by one with "Apply" and "OK". The Change without a restart to take effect. The playback stops in the future, as soon as Windows shows the login Dialog. Also, after logging in to the original user account, the playback must be started on request, new.
WMP stop when changing user
In a further article we will show you how to use the image in Windows media player turn.

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