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UrgeMS.exe seems to be causing issues for a lot of people. I mentioned previously that you can disable the process via security policy, and someone pointed out a registry setting to disable it a little cleaner. I was hoping they'd fix this in the future, but it looks like all they did was make it worse. A recent update made this process a bit, shall we say, heartier. In previous versions, UrgeMS.exe was launched only when Windows Media Player started up; now it seems to launch the process repeatedly while using URGE. Worse yet, the registry fix mentioned no longer works - whatever launches this process explicitly resets the Enabled registry key to true. A user on the CNET forums posted another workaround : replacing the UrgeMS.exe process with an "empty" executable. So while Windows Media Player will still repeatedly launch this process, at least now it won't thrash your disk and use a significant amount of CPU. I've attached the empty executable I'm using - it's simply a new console application...
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