Windows XP Media: Full screen issue

Afternoon chap and chappettes.

I have an issue with Windows XP Media. Whenever I play a video, it expands to full screen. Now I have checked Windows media player, and I am pretty sure its not down to that. I believe it is down to the media centre.

Any idea how I can stop it? As it is very annoying as you can very well imagine.

 

Blinky Are you sure the "remember" feature of Windows is being used? When you open the Media and it is full size, click the double squares at the top right or just double click the bar across the top to get it minimized, shape it where you want it, then close. Next time you open it it should be the size you designed before closing. That's the way it is supposed to work. If this doesn't cure your problem something else is wrong.

Try this once, you may be surprised at your success.

 

When I say fulll screen, I mean totally full. No bar, anything. It takes over the entire screen. The only way to get out of it is to head back to the XP log in screen.

The mouse disappears also.

 

Blinky,

If it happens again try using the *hotkey* for full screen: Alt + Enter
That should switch you out of 'full screen' (notice that I said 'should')
HTH

B

 

Grrrrrrrr. Is still does it.

I think the video is being played by the media centre, as th alt and enter effects windows media player, but not the actual video.

 

Blinky,
It has to be a setting in Windows Media Player, see the attached photo, then check your setting, then see if this helps. If not try one of the numerical settings (ie 50%)

 

I've set my player to the settings displayed, and it still does it.

It must be to do with Windows media centre.It even does it for real audio. It's almost as if it plays on top of them.

 

Hi there,

I've been having the same problem and have so far been unable to find a solution. Basically Windows media player just defaults to full screen, but not conventional full screen, like when you hit Alt + Enter, it is completeley full screen, there is no mouse cursor and the only way to get out is to go to task manager. Any advice would be appreciated! Have reinstalled Media player 10 on Xp, still the same.....registry setting perhaps?

 

I'm not the only one!

 

This sounds like the sort of thing that Microsoft Support is good at fixing. It is also the sort of thing where you should have a couple of free Microsoft support calls unless you have OEM systems and in that case, the OEM folks should offer support.