Windows media player taskbar vista

Windows 7 Media. Sign in to vote. Hi, In previous versions of the WMP was able to see video from the taskbar, now the preview superba not let me do this, it would be possible to make the preview of the video is made permanent, while other tasks are performed? Friday, April 24, PM. Ferguson 0. No, the taskbar no long has a WMP toobar addition.

Rating posts helps other users. I see video in full motion real time as a popup on the taskbar, when I point at the icon of a running WMP12 instance. Hello everyone! I'm here to ask you a simple question on windows media player taskbar icon. How can I fix it? Thanks for your help. Sunday, May 10, PM. Have you tried manually re-setting the icon? Marked as answer by Mark L. Ferguson Tuesday, May 12, PM. Ferguson 0. Mine works. I would guess you have some damaged system files.

To run the System File Checker tool, follow these steps: 1. If Explorer crashes for any reason you can't get the tray icon back without first killing the mpxptray.

Having the volume controls as menu items? Come on Sometimes that Information Popup window is quite handy when you really want it With the tray control you have to right click the tray app, unhide the media player, find the app in the taskbar, then activate it.

However as I said above I still prefer it over the Mini Mode. Windows is kind enough to tell me that it won't allow it to install because of compatibility issues. I clicked the "Check for solutions online" button, but it was unable to find any solutions big surprise.

However I was pretty confident that there was only one or two applications that were actually incompatible with Vista. Since I noticed that the executable I downloaded was a self extracting archive, I figured I'd poke around the files it extracted.

It even gave me the path where it dumped everything. Low and behold I found mpxptray. I copied it to a new folder in the Program Files and ran it.

Apparently it has no file dependencies because it ran just fine. Right click the tray control, open options, check "Run Tray Control at Startup" and your install is done.