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hello people

when I close vlc, while its windows disappears, the application still works (when I check the task manager)

how do I fix this?
its big time since vlc update has appeared.. whats happened?

I had this problem too, the VLC player would continue to stream after
closing the player.

I found my solution on the FAQ page here : http://www.videolan.org/support/bug-reporting.html

The Windows version of VLC has an entry in the Start Menu that completely resets your VLC setup. It is called: "Reset VLC defaults and quit."
(Uninstalling VLC does not remove it's old settings.)
Double check that your issue still exists.

Doing this fixed the run-on problem & also fixed
an intermittent hotkey issue I had.