How can I make Windows Media Player ignore global hotkeys in Windows 7?

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Published on 2009-11-09T01:59:38Z Indexed on 2010/03/17 9:01 UTC
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I have Windows 7 and a Logitech G15 keyboard.

One of the programs with the Logitech G15 allows you to control media players such as Winamp with the playback keys on the keyboard.

Problem I'm having is that, even though I have told this program to not control Windows Media Player, every time I use it to pause Winamp, it then hits plays (or unpauses) Windows Media Player. Even more annoying given that Windows Media Player isn't even running as an active GUI program and instead as a background process, so I hear the sound of whatever the last video it was I playing.

If I end-task wmplayer.exe it spins right back up but at least now it has no knowledge of a video to play, but this is annoying.

How can I either

a) Have Windows Media Player in Windows 7 completely unload when I close it, or
b) Have Windows Media Player in Windows 7 ignore any sort of global hotkeys?

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