How to Start Windows Media Player 11 in the Now Playing Tab
October 27th, 2007 . by TommyRight click on the shortcut for Windows Media Player 11 and click on ’Properties’. In the ‘Target’ field, after the ” ends, type ‘/Task NowPlaying’ (without the single quotes).
Example: If the shortcut looks like ["C:Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe" /Prefetch:1] change it to ["C:Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe" /Task NowPlaying].
Hi,
Thank you for this tip on opening WMP usefully.
Now, can you tell me how to do this directly in Registry? That way I know what’s going on under the hood, Thanks so much !
Hi!
Thanks for commenting.
I have also looked for a way to enable this in registry directly, but without success.
For reference, here’s a few other commands like NowPlaying:
/Task MediaGuide
/Task CDAudio
/Task CDWrite
/Task Library
/Task SkinViewer
/Task PortableDevice
Thanks a $1M for the quick response !!
& when I find the Registry answer,
I’ll return here to share it
or, when I get off my laziness & use one of the Registry change programs to find out exactly where that parameter is recording itself to Registry!
hmmm, this would be an excellent project to practice in a Virtual Machine …..
I use HotKeys Plus,
& was able to add the ” /Task NowPlaying ”
parameter in the parameter field,
so when I hit my HotKey combo,
WMP opens like I want it to !
(even tho’ I prefer the new Home Theatre edition of Media Player Classic, that contains current codecs for .flv, .swf, mpeg4, etc.)
I looked for it today but couldn’t find the registry change myself (using procmon).
Hope you have better luck