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Windows Media Player in Windows 7

Tom Warren   on 28 October 2008 - 23:39 · 6 comments & 37651 views

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Microsoft has built a neat little control into Windows 7 to reduce the many launch surfaces for Windows applications.

According to Chaitanya Sareen from the Windows team at Microsoft, only 3% of users enable the taskbar control for Windows Media Player. Microsoft saw this as an area for improvement and built a control for when media player is minimised.


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#1 Adduc on 29 Oct 2008 - 01:27
Would work nice for email apps and other task-bar icons that operate with actions like notifications on email, alerts on file sync or backup, or pausing / resuming a timer. Neat little improvement I never would have thought of.
(2 replies) #2 P1R4T3 on 29 Oct 2008 - 07:36
I always select the WMP toolbar when minimizing. You get all the controls and the taskbar gets less messy.
But a good addition though. Now speaking of taksbar, Taskbar Shuffle is a great application that helps you moving stuffs in your taskbar. Its there's any feature like that in windows, then it would be more than welcome.
#2.1 +xiphi on 29 Oct 2008 - 08:43
They showed that you can now move the icons on the taskbar in the Keynote demo.
#2.2 P1R4T3 on 29 Oct 2008 - 11:46
xiphi said,
They showed that you can now move the icons on the taskbar in the Keynote demo.


Didnt know that.
Thx for the tips.
#3 +lcg on 29 Oct 2008 - 11:01
A very neat improvement.
#4 gorash on 01 Nov 2008 - 02:30
I'd like to do that with programs other than WMP... e.g. Foobar.

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