What changed on your system? It sounds like you either updated DirectX,
DirectShow, or your video card drivers when this started happening...

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"Myrgee" <chupa.cabra@verizon.net(ReMoVe)> wrote in message
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> Recently WMP started playing my .wmv files in a seperate window
> "ActiveMovie
> Window". It is a seperate window on top of WMP, don't know why all of a
> sudden it started doing this. It only does it with wmv's. Also I seem to
> have lost the WMP toolboar option when minimized. I tried uninstalling and
> reinstalling, no joy.