How do you start up WMP so that it starts in full screen from a shortcut.

I don't want to have to press ctrl enter. I want windows to run a short
fullscreen video when I startup my computer.

I want to put a shortcut in startup that loads a file with perameters I
want, such as:

Startup in full screen and Play once.

To know how to add this to a playlist would be great too.


Thanks,
Dubhbairn

DUBHBAIRN wrote:
> How do you start up WMP so that it starts in full screen from a shortcut.
>
> I don't want to have to press ctrl enter. I want windows to run a short
> fullscreen video when I startup my computer.
>
> I want to put a shortcut in startup that loads a file with perameters I
> want, such as:
>
> Startup in full screen and Play once.
>
> To know how to add this to a playlist would be great too.

Theoretically any program can be made to run full screen etc by creating
a shortcut to it, and then setting the Run window size on the properties
dialog.

On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 09:12:01 -0800, DUBHBAIRN
<DUBHBAIRN@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>How do you start up WMP so that it starts in full screen from a shortcut.
>
>I don't want to have to press ctrl enter. I want windows to run a short
>fullscreen video when I startup my computer.
>
>I want to put a shortcut in startup that loads a file with perameters I
>want, such as:
>
>Startup in full screen and Play once.

There's a fullscreen switch for the player shortcut - check this page
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...parameters.asp

Copy and past the existing media player shortcut into your Startup
folder. The Right click it, choose Properties and in the box labelled
"Target",add /fullscreen at the end of the path to media player
(separated by a a space)

Cheers - Neil

"D:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe" /fullscreen
or
"D:\Documents and Settings\Dubhbairn\Desktop\Choralone.mpg" /fullscreen

....in the shortcut's target folder do NOT start WMP in fullscreen mode.
I want to put a shortcut in startup that plays a short fullscreen video when
windows starts up.

Can someone try this and get it to work?
And if so, post the shortcut here that works?

Thanks for trying Neil.



"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 09:12:01 -0800, DUBHBAIRN
> <DUBHBAIRN@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> >How do you start up WMP so that it starts in full screen from a shortcut.
> >I don't want to have to press ctrl enter. I want windows to run a short
> >fullscreen video when I startup my computer.
> >I want to put a shortcut in startup that loads a file with perameters I
> >want, such as:
> >Startup in full screen and Play once.
> There's a fullscreen switch for the player shortcut - check this page
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...parameters.asp
> Copy and past the existing media player shortcut into your Startup
> folder. The Right click it, choose Properties and in the box labelled
> "Target",add /fullscreen at the end of the path to media player
> (separated by a a space)
> Cheers - Neil

On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 09:58:57 -0800, DUBHBAIRN
<DUBHBAIRN@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>"D:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe" /fullscreen
>or
>"D:\Documents and Settings\Dubhbairn\Desktop\Choralone.mpg" /fullscreen
>
>...in the shortcut's target folder do NOT start WMP in fullscreen mode.
>I want to put a shortcut in startup that plays a short fullscreen video when
>windows starts up.

I can't see in (1) Where you specified the video to play (it can't
play "nothing" in full screen !)

And in (2) You haven't specified media player as the target, so it
won't work because those parameters can't be passed to an undefined
player.

Instead, use this [Watch for line wrap - this is all one line so copy
& paste at your peril]

"D:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe" D:\Documents and
Settings\Dubhbairn\Desktop\Choralone.mpg /fullscreen

Cheers - Neil