Thread: mfpmp.exe problem

I'm bad tempered about it (mfpmp.exe) again. It's eating 60MB of RAM as well as 11% of my microprocessor! That's awful. How much resources as well as CPU is mfpmp.exe eating? Why is mfpmp.exe essential, anyhow? I mean, really, what does it do and what good is it? I don't see mfpmp.exe when operation WMP11 on XP, but I do in Vista. Someone know? Thanks.

mfpmp.exe is a "Media Foundation Protected Pipeline EXE". I imagine its DRM module protecting media paths from being hijacked by programs that can attempt to work about DRM media protection.

Do not make use of Windows Media Player but some other software’s, like Winamp or any other multimedia player and set this alternating program as the default player as well as your Problem stops forever.

On my other side ThinkPad T23 (16MB DirectX8 Card / Vista-Basic-Mode) the WMP11 even dares to inform me he cannot play DVDs - Every other Player does play them completely smooth!. So forget this confused program - it's all about DRM-****.

On my XP Partition on the Notebook I reinstalled the WMP11 application back to WMP10, which runs well (as well as plays DVDs, too).

This Thinkpad is complete Vista-capable, just no Aero - I can live with that, but that such easy functions like DVD playback now need an Aero-compatible card is just one motive for me not to acquire the Update to Vista-Business, but stick with XP Professional on it.