Control hiding anchor window in Media Player

This setting hides the anchor window which is normally shown when using Windows Media Player in compact or skin mode.

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Description:
When you switch windows media player to compact or skin mode, it will normally display an anchor window that can be used to go back to the full display easily. As soon as you close this window, it is hidden and it has to be restarted for the change to take effect. It requires windows media player 8.0 or higher. This setting also restricts the users from re-enabling the window. For this, go to start > run menu, enter regedit and navigate to the registry path listed below. If the subkey \preferences is not present, create it as explained below. Now, create dword value name donotshowanchor, if this value does not exist. Right-click it and modify with the data value 1 to hide and 0 to display it. Click ok to close the registry.

Level: Recommended For Novice Users

Registry Entries

Path: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Preferences\]

Location: Current User

Value Name: DoNotShowAnchor

Data Type: DWORD (DWORD Value)

Enabled Value: 1

Disabled Value: 0

Action Type: Add an Entry

Screenshots

First, click the 'Start' button, and select 'Run'. In the resulting dialog box, type "regedit".

Second, go to the <b>[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Preferences\]</b> key, right-click on the right pane and click on "New > DWORD Value" to create a new DWORD value with the name "DoNotShowAnchor".