Powershell Stop playing media - Powershell snippet Updated January 02 2026
This will stop playing media in most any windows app. A Youtube video in a browser will pause, etc.

Copy to Clipboard $Signature = @" [DllImport("user32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto)] public static extern IntPtr SendMessage(IntPtr hWnd, uint Msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam); "@ if (-not ("Win32Functions.Win32Stop" -as [type])) { Add-Type -MemberDefinition $Signature -Name "Win32Stop" -Namespace Win32Functions } # Define Windows Constants $WM_APPCOMMAND = 0x0319 $APPCOMMAND_MEDIA_STOP = 13 # Using STOP instead of PAUSE $HWND_BROADCAST = [IntPtr]0xffff # Calculate lParam: (Command




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