2nd July 2002
Who tried to escape from the clutches of the Windows Media Player? Lockergnomie Robert McKinnon: "Have you ever played a movie (its resolution very, very small) in the Windows Media Player? Then, when you tried to get a better view of what was going on, you made it go 'Full Screen' (Alt + Enter), only to discover that your mouse cursor and just about everything else became really, really big. You couldn't get out of that mode? The first time that this happened to me, I just about had to reformat my computer, and I was only able to get the proper resolution back by going into Safe Mode. I figured out how to get around this quite by accident; simply hit the 'Escape' key, and everything will go back to normal." Sounds simple enough. I've also found a way to turn off WiMP's HTML processing. "Some programs use embedded script commands to deliver synchronized multimedia presentations, advertising, and DRM license acquisition." If you turn the feature off, understand that you may break functionality in the process. In the Registry, navigate to HKCU \ Software \ Microsoft \ MediaPlayer \ Preferences. Make a new dword value named: "Player Script Commands Enabled" (no spaces, sans quotes). Give it a value of 0. To turn it back on, set the key to 1.