I recently bought a new computer with Vista. Prior to this, with XP, when I
inserted a home-made DVD, WMP11 always opened with the mostly blank sidebar
on the right which had a line like "unknown DVD." Right-clicking on that
brought up the "Metaservices" box which allowed me to type the movie's name
and imprint an ID onto the DVD.

Now, WMP 11 opens full-screen and I don't get to identify the movie by
title. How do I get the sidebar back on when the the DVD first loads?
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Thanks, Alex

It auto-full-screens - does it work if you go back to normal non-full-screen
mode?

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"Alex" .(donotspam) wrote in message
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I recently bought a new computer with Vista. Prior to this, with XP, when
I
inserted a home-made DVD, WMP11 always opened with the mostly blank
sidebar
on the right which had a line like "unknown DVD." Right-clicking on that
brought up the "Metaservices" box which allowed me to type the movie's
name
and imprint an ID onto the DVD.

Now, WMP 11 opens full-screen and I don't get to identify the movie by
title. How do I get the sidebar back on when the the DVD first loads?
--
Thanks, Alex

This may sound real naive, but I clicked on "switch to classic mode," hoping
to get something like I got used to with XP, but now there's no toolbar and
pressing ESC does absolutely nothing, so I'm kind of stuck.

Thanks for your link, which I'll explore, but short of resorting to finding
and plodding through a WMD 11 User's Manual, how would I get it out of
full-screen and then change settings?

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Thanks, Alex


"zachd [MSFT]" wrote:


It auto-full-screens - does it work if you go back to normal non-full-screen
mode?

--
Speaking for myself only.
See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
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"Alex" .(donotspam) wrote in message
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I recently bought a new computer with Vista. Prior to this, with XP, when
I
inserted a home-made DVD, WMP11 always opened with the mostly blank
sidebar
on the right which had a line like "unknown DVD." Right-clicking on that
brought up the "Metaservices" box which allowed me to type the movie's
name
and imprint an ID onto the DVD.

Now, WMP 11 opens full-screen and I don't get to identify the movie by
title. How do I get the sidebar back on when the the DVD first loads?
--
Thanks, Alex

I started reading your link and found exactly what I was looking for near the
top where you wrote "A handful of fixes for it are available here." The
"here" link took me to Windows WMP Solution Center, which I suppose has the
answers. I say "I suppose" cause when I slipped in a DVD to try ALT+CTL+DEL
to get out of the full-screen mode, oddly enough, just pressing ESC got me
out.

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I played and ripped from a
regular music CD before trying this. Odd things like that are not all that
unusual with all things Microsoft.

Thanks again!
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Thanks, Alex


"zachd [MSFT]" wrote:


It auto-full-screens - does it work if you go back to normal non-full-screen
mode?

--
Speaking for myself only.
See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
--
"Alex" .(donotspam) wrote in message
...
I recently bought a new computer with Vista. Prior to this, with XP, when
I
inserted a home-made DVD, WMP11 always opened with the mostly blank
sidebar
on the right which had a line like "unknown DVD." Right-clicking on that
brought up the "Metaservices" box which allowed me to type the movie's
name
and imprint an ID onto the DVD.

Now, WMP 11 opens full-screen and I don't get to identify the movie by
title. How do I get the sidebar back on when the the DVD first loads?
--
Thanks, Alex