Windows Explorer Hijacking Media Keys

[keenan]

This has bugged me a few times since I installed Windows 7, but I never really spent any time on it, just closed the WMP window and clicked the button instead. Tonight I've had enough.

When I have Windows Explorer in focus and a media file selected, press the Play/Pause button on my keyboard starts WMP (not even the default player for the filetype, and it's not running in the background that I can see) and plays the file. If I have a non-media file selected, the hotkey is just trapped and does nothing. In any other application, the global hotkeys I have registered in foobar2000 work fine.

I can't find an option to control this. Advice?

Edit: I've managed to get WMP not to start by disabling access via the control panel, but the shortcut keys are still getting hijacked by Explorer.

 

[evilsofa]

press the Play/Pause button on my keyboard starts WMP

I'm not sure we can help you without knowing what keyboard you are using. I would guess it's your keyboard drivers opening WMP, and there may or may not be anything you can do about that.

 

[keenan]

I'm not sure we can help you without knowing what keyboard you are using. I would guess it's your keyboard drivers opening WMP, and there may or may not be anything you can do about that.

Don't have any keyboard drivers installed. I hate that junky keyboard software, the keys work fine with the standard HID driver that ships with Windows. Or used to with XP and do outside Explorer, anyway...

Keyboard is a "Logitech Elite Keyboard".

 

[MrMuppet]

This annoys me to no end as well. Is there a solution?

I just want Explorer to ignore and let my media keys be passed on to foobar2000 (usually) like all other programs do, instead of launching whichever media file is highlighted when I want to pause the music in foobar, etc.

My keyboard is a Logitech G11 if it matters, but I think Explorer's the one misbehaving.