Re: WMP 9 - no full mode?

anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 09/01/04 

Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 21:09:12 -0700

Turns out the fix was not gpedit, but instead I needed to
run regedit. For some undesirable reason, our corporate IT
types had pushed a registry entry that disabled anything
but the basic skin mode. Fliping the appropriate bits with
regedit turned all th eusual features back on!

It was an ugly problem, but it looks great now!

astrobuf
>-----Original Message-----
> Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the
bone and astrobuf
>said
>> I have just downloaded and installed WMP 9.0 on my Win
2K
>> laptop. For some reason, when I start the application,
the
>> VIEW full mode button is grayed out. The full mode icon
on
>> the upper right is not functional. The option to auto
>> dowload updates is grayed out as well. I've deinstalled
>> WMP 9.0 and the hotfix's for it and reinstalled twice
with
>> not fix. What is wrong? How do I fix it?
>
> Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the
bone and
>BlondieUK said
>> For some reason, Media Player 9 in XP Pro has got stuck
in skin mode.
>> The option for switching to full mode off the View menu
is greyed out
>> and none of the other shortcuts or icon switches do
anything either.
>> Have tried upgrading to MP10 beta to see if it would
reset options to
>> default but no joy. Now rolled back to MP9, still the
same.
>>
>> Anyone got any suggestions??
>>
>> Thanks guys...
>>
>>
>> Terri
>
> Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the
bone and zachd
>[ms] said
>> Run gpedit.msc and change the setting under
>> Local Computer Policy:User Configuration:Administrative
>> Templates:Windows Components:Windows Media Player:User
Interface
>> , provided of course that your network admin is okay
with thi. Some
>> network admins deliberate turn off the full mode in
order to prevent
>> access to some player features.
>- -Zach
>
>I tried it and while it was not configured, I set it to
disabled and my
>problems are now fixed and I have full mode.
>
>Please let me know if it fixed yours...
>
>Mark
>
>
>.
>