Windows Media Player 11 Won’t Minimize to Taskbar

Posted on November 28th, 2007 in Vista by Tom

This has nothing to do with PowerShell :p

That said, I was sitting here working on ye olde blog when I thought “I want to listen to some Foo Fighters”…then I minimized WMP and it just…minimized. I wanted mini mode, where I get all of the controls on the taskbar…it works on my laptop, why not my desktop?

I don’t know why this took me so long to find. Wait, yes I do. I was looking all over WMP 11 for the setting. Turns out it isn’t there. To get WMP 11 to minimize to the taskbar (aka, mini-mode), right click your taskbar, go to toolbars, and make sure Windows Media Player is checked. Maybe I turned that off on my own a while ago and forgot it was there. I can’t remember the default behavior.

What makes this all more amusing is that I have a Logitech G15 keyboard, which has all of the controls right on top…


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  1. Luke said,

    on May 3rd, 2008 at 5:30 pm

    I was looking for this >>
    Cheers mate

  2. singhy said,

    on September 10th, 2008 at 1:35 pm

    nice one

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