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Answered Windows Media Player 12 Now Playing window too small

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      Friday, May 08, 2009 2:58 AM
       
       
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      When opening a video with wmp 12 the "now playing" window always opens as a very tiny window or, if "fit player to video" is checked, adjusts itself to the size of the video. When manually adjusting the size of the window and then closing the application and opening a new video, the "now playing" window goes back to being tiny. I have tried checking and unchecking both "fit player to video" and "fit video to player on resize" under "video" on the right click menu.

      With previous versions of windows media player it was possible to adjust the window size and have all the videos adjust to that size. Is this a bug or a new feature? Or is there a way to change back to the old way?

      I'm using windows 7 RC x64.
       

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    • Wednesday, June 17, 2009 8:26 PM
       
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      I think this is expected behavior. Have you tried playing the video in the Library view?

      edit: I think I found something of a workaround but maybe its not entirely what you want. If you open Windows Media Player (without opening a file) and switch to the Now Playing view, hold the ctrl button while resizing the window. Then exit and open a file. On my computer it will pop up at the same size I had just resized it to. 

      -Nick
      • Proposed As Answer by chrisnella Monday, July 13, 2009 3:14 AM
      • Marked As Answer by DavidGunnarsson Saturday, August 15, 2009 4:49 PM
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    • Sunday, May 10, 2009 4:34 PM
       
       
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      bump
       
    • Sunday, May 10, 2009 11:16 PM
       
       
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      Had that problem at first but went away after I maximized the window while in "now playing".
       
    • Monday, May 11, 2009 2:22 PM
       
       
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      That seemed to work now that I tried it but only one time. When I try to replicate it the window stay the same size every time I open a new video and does not care what size it where before I closed it.
       
    • Wednesday, June 17, 2009 8:26 PM
       
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      I think this is expected behavior. Have you tried playing the video in the Library view?

      edit: I think I found something of a workaround but maybe its not entirely what you want. If you open Windows Media Player (without opening a file) and switch to the Now Playing view, hold the ctrl button while resizing the window. Then exit and open a file. On my computer it will pop up at the same size I had just resized it to. 

      -Nick
      • Proposed As Answer by chrisnella Monday, July 13, 2009 3:14 AM
      • Marked As Answer by DavidGunnarsson Saturday, August 15, 2009 4:49 PM
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    • Monday, July 13, 2009 3:15 AM
       
       
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      -Nick FV is exactly right. worked perfectly man. thanks.
       
    • Sunday, November 22, 2009 4:27 PM
       
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      Select View, Video Size, deselect Fit Player to video ... done 
      • Proposed As Answer by EricTN Monday, November 30, 2009 3:39 AM
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    • Monday, November 30, 2009 3:39 AM
       
       
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      Walter A1's solution is the correct solution.   The confusion wouldn't be there if "Fit Player to Video" wasn't already checked as the default setting.  Clearing the checkmark solves the issue.
       
    • Thursday, May 06, 2010 12:39 PM
       
       
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      Walt's didn't work for me. Nick's did.
       
    • Saturday, May 08, 2010 5:32 AM
       
       
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      I second ubjazzed - Walt's solution did nothing. Nick's worked.
       
    • Tuesday, July 13, 2010 4:53 AM
       
       
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      I just had the same thing happen.   Things were just fine, then it started opening up at about 1200x60 size.  

       

      Nick's workaround did work, but why did it happen in hte first place.

       

      Funnny.....