Windows Vista boot-time reads of iTunes media

Question

I sure hope someone here know SOMETHING about why this happening. I have a few movies in my iTunes library. I never watch them within iTunes, instead I always sync them to my iPod touch to watch them. However, a short time ago, I accidentally double-clicked on my download/purchase of Poltergeist, and the movie played for a few seconds in iTunes. I stopped it. I didn't intend to play it. Now, when I boot up my laptop, and open up the Resource Monitor to watch what happens during start-up, I see the svchost.exe process reading up to half of the Poltergeist.m4v movie file...about 550MB of it. It's a 1.2GB file, but it consistently sits there and reads up half of it at every boot. Why the heck is svchost.exe doing that? Why does this process need to read all that data at start-up? I don't have iTunes open, and I don't have my iPod hooked up. I don't like it. It contributes to a slow start-up. Maybe there's some sort of action I can do on the movie within iTunes to tell this process, "Hey, you don't need to bother reading this file!" ???

Answer 1

Nope, that didn't do it, Katrina. And that sounded like a really good suggestion, too. The movie is still being read up by svchost.exe (over 500MB of it) with every boot. Obviously, I don't want to delete the movie. It was a purchase. But I just don't see any other way to make it stop doing that.