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Windows Forum / Windows Media / Player / August 2005Cann't leave minimal mode (task bar) anymore. (WMP 9 and 10).
I cann't resize the wmp 9.0 anymore from minimal mode (in the task bar) to any other size. The problem exists whether wmp is checked on the toolbar or not. Upgrade to wmp 10.0 does not help. I've tried various keyboard shortcuts - no change. The problem refers to one user only on the WIN XP SP2 system. Other users are not affected. Is there a way to "repair" WMP as it is for other programmes like MS OFFICE ? Rainer. Does http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html#offscreen help?  Signature(speaking for myself and doing this in my free time) See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. -- >I cann't resize the wmp 9.0 anymore from minimal mode (in the task bar) to > any other size. The problem exists whether wmp is checked on the toolbar [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Rainer. Thank you for your help. However, if I right-click on the WMP icon, not all of the options are available. I may only choose RESTORE; MINIMIZE; CLOSE. RESTORE starts no action. If I click MINIMIZE, nothing really happens of course but thereafter this option has changed to MAXIMIZE instead. When I click MAXIMIZE I can see "the icon flying away from the task bar across the desktop and leaving the desk top across the right edge" within one tenth of second. Thereafter the icon is back again on the task bar. Another right-click then shows the MINIMIZE option again. I can choose a skin from the appropriate subfile while WMP is on the task bar and the skin will open. Thus I can make use of the WMP this way. However, if I want to change the active skin to full mode, the WMP disappears again and I am back with only the icon on the task bar. Rainer. 'kay. Launch WMP. Once you see the taskbar icon, use the "right-mouse click" BUTTON on your keyboard to switch back out of skin mode. Signature(speaking for myself and doing this in my free time) See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. -- > Thank you for your help. > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Rainer. > 'kay. Launch WMP. Once you see the taskbar icon, use the "right-mouse > click" BUTTON on your keyboard to switch back out of skin mode. No difference in behaviour between keyboard and mouse. Rainer The difference should be that the right-click button operates on current app regardless of mouse position. So you want to launch WMP. At that point it should be offscreen. If you press the right-click button on the keyboard, that should give you the context menu for WMP. This would let you choose "Switch to Full Mode" and escape the skin you're stuck in. Does this not happen? You can reset the X and Y manually too, but the above is just a little easier in theory. Signature(speaking for myself and doing this in my free time) See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. -- >> 'kay. Launch WMP. Once you see the taskbar icon, use the "right-mouse >> click" BUTTON on your keyboard to switch back out of skin mode. > > No difference in behaviour between keyboard and mouse. > Rainer Sorry, but doesn't work. Tried again today as proposed by yourself. No action - no pop-up menu at all when I click the "right-click-button" on my keybord". Of course the button works with other applications. Rainer. Reset the values SkinX and SkinY under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Player\Skins - or even just remove the value for "CurrentSkin"... Signature(speaking for myself and doing this in my free time) See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Now Playing: "Temptation" by "Moby" in WMP10. -- > Sorry, but doesn't work. Tried again today as proposed by yourself. > No action - no pop-up menu at all when I click the "right-click-button" on [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Rainer. > Reset the values SkinX and SkinY under > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Player\Skins - or even just > remove the value for "CurrentSkin".. Sorry, no effect. I even copied the skin-registry values from another user on the same system (without these problems) into the registry of the current user. Didn't help either. Rainer. |
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