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toolbar notification

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Dave

Flightless Bird
When you have the player minimized and the toolbar showing whenever a song
switches or when you mouse over the toolbar a notification box pops up
displaying what song is playing.
Is there a way to disable that notification or to move where it pops up at?

I'm using WMP11 with Win XP SP3.
 
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Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]

Flightless Bird
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 08:37:01 -0700, Dave
<Dave@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>When you have the player minimized and the toolbar showing whenever a song
>switches or when you mouse over the toolbar a notification box pops up
>displaying what song is playing.
>Is there a way to disable that notification or to move where it pops up at?
>
>I'm using WMP11 with Win XP SP3.



Yes - you can disable the toolbar itself (for starters) as it sounds
(sic) like this isn't something you want at all.

In a blank part of the taskbar, to the left of the click - right
click, and from the menu shown select Toolbars, then uncheck the
"Windows media player toolbar"

This feature was removed anyway in windows 7 / WMP12 so it won't
bother you any more if you update from XP.

If you want the toolbar player but *not* the popup, ZachD's site
indicates some changes you can (carefully) make to the Windows
registry using regedit : http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html#deskband

"Can I change the timeout for the pop-up (toast) window in the taskbar
player? " : Set the value to 0x0 as shown, to prevent the flyout/popup

HTH
Cheers - Neil
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