The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Help, Windows Media Player - Major Problem !

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by supremelord, Apr 6, 2005.

  1. supremelord

    supremelord Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    93
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    ok whenever i play a movie or anime or something in windows media player 10 in full screeen mode, after like 10 mins it makes it back to small screen ... and then i make it full screen but after 10 minutes it does the same thing over agian ...

    how can i fix this ?



    ** Dell Inspiron 9300 ... Centrino 2 ghz ... 1 Gig Ram ... 256 Nvidia Geforce 6800 Go ... 100 Gig Hardrive ... 17 inch WUXGA screen with Truelife ... 8 x Dual DVD Burner ... Wifi **
     
    supremelord, Apr 6, 2005
    #1
  2. pcharouz

    pcharouz Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    128
    Messages:
    585
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Just use a different player
     
    pcharouz, Apr 8, 2005
    #2
  3. pcharouz

    pcharouz Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    128
    Messages:
    585
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    OR
    -Reinstal Windows media player 10
    -Reinstal codecs
    -If it worked before try system restore
    -Reinstal windows
     
    pcharouz, Apr 8, 2005
    #3
  4. gecko

    gecko Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    50
    Messages:
    313
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Funny this happens to me when I'm using Firefox. Weird how they could be related.

    Yea switch media players. I'm using mplayer 6, and I used to use BSplayer(until they started chargin money for it) now media player classic.
     
    gecko, Apr 12, 2005
    #4
  5. olyteddy

    olyteddy Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    468
    Messages:
    1,369
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    <blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by gecko
     
    Last edited by a moderator: May 8, 2015
    olyteddy, Apr 13, 2005
    #5
  6. alfie

    alfie Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    4
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Try turning off your screen saver, if its set to 10 mins.
     
    alfie, Apr 14, 2005
    #6
  7. gecko

    gecko Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    50
    Messages:
    313
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Ah, u mean the basic and pro versions. They used to only have the free version. Now for the extra stuff u have to buy the pro.
    I try to use freeware whenever I can. Most freeware is even better than stuff u pay for.
     
    gecko, Apr 14, 2005
    #7