May 31, 2004 I can't get my WMP 9 to go into mini mode. I have right clicked in the task bar and chose toolbars then windows media player. When I open WMP and then minimize it it just won't go to mini mode. I have Windows XP with 1.7Ghz CPU and 512Mb ram. It used to work and then just stopped one day. Small but powerful How to turn your mini PC into a monster media center A 'stick' or 'mini PC' running Windows 10 can make a great, inexpensive streaming box. Now when you double-click on a file in Windows Explorer, it will open in the mini player by default. On to the screenshots! Windows Media Player 11 on XP (Mini mode) Windows Media Player 11 on Vista (Mini mode) The Vista version is definitely cool with the transparency, but I almost like the XP version better. Restore the Player from mini Player mode. Zoom to 50 percent. Show the Tools menu. Zoom to 100 percent. Show the View menu. Zoom to 200 percent. Go to the Features taskbar features. Show or hide album information in the Rip feature. Move left or right or up or down on menus. Mini-mode was introduced as a shell player powertoy for Windows Media Player 8 in Windows XP and integrated later into WMP 9 Series. Mini-mode has been removed in Windows Media Player 12 in favor of controls in the taskbar's interactive thumbnail preview which lacks volume control, a progress bar and information displayed whenever a new song is.
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I believe I may have solved the problem - that being no mini-mode in taskbar on a xp 32bit machine. (for 64 apparently it is not supported). As it turns out I solved another problem at the same time. My mspaint had disappeared from the computer and eventually I realized that it may have occurred when I removed some windows components through the add - remove programs window. I'd accidentally removed things I'd intended to keep because the process doesn't make it clear when it is removing or adding something. Anyway, popping in the xp cd and re-running this mspaint was back (so was my calculator among a few other things that I hadn't realized had gone, lol). I also noticed there is an option to remove media player and although I can't say for certain this is what had caused the problem because I'd already fixed mini-mode using Rinnaldo's fix (cheers mate - worked a charm), I am willing to bet that it was and this method would have sorted it out - Wuala (sic). Well, if it doesn't this post will at least help those out there whose mspaint has disappeared but keep getting unhelpful advice similar to djrico2006 below (thanks for the help). Although they probably won't find it in here, and signing up to one random web site tonite is enuf for me.
If you are playing mp3 songs on your windows media player then you don’t really need a huge screen feature, often you can minimize the media player but there is a inbuilt option to reduce unwanted screen layouts from the windows media player while you are playing only audio songs, we are talking about “Mini player mode” in windows media player.If you are not sure how to enable it then here are the steps to follow
Mini mode in Windows media player
1. Open windows media player
Windows Media Player Activate Mini Mode
2. Go to Tools and then to the options menu
3. A Player dialog box opens where you will find “Start the mini Player for file names that contain this text” box, check it and add “.mp3” in the text box.You can also add real player format, divx, mp4 format or specific drive.
Windows Media Player 12 Mini Mode
4. Click apply and open any mp3 file, there you have your mini media player playing audio files in mini-mode!
Mini player mode doesn’t work with all the version of windows player (works with windows media player 11).For other version you can right click on your taskbar, go to the Toolbar option and check the windows media player which displays a small media bar in your taskbar!