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.

"zachd [ms]" <zachd@nomailplz.online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> What changed on your system? It sounds like you either updated DirectX,
> DirectShow, or your video card drivers when this started happening...

Got the same problem here. It seems from forums, newsgroups a lot are
experiencing this. Havent seen a solution yet.

I'm using Ati all in wonder , latest drivers ( still fairly old though).
Maybe thats the common cause??

Mine happened when I upgraded to 10. I updated all. I then rolled back to 9.
The same problem then affected 9 which had been fine before.

I "removed" 9 via add/remove windows components and picked up a fresh copy
of 10 from windows update site. Made sure I had the latest codecs, dx etc.
I still have the floating window.