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Add Windows Media Player Shortcut To Desktop
Desktop Shortcut For Windows Media Player

Zoom to 50 percent. Zoom to 100 percent. Zoom to 200 percent. Show or hide album information in the Copy from CD feature. We have published lots of articles and tutorials about Windows Media Player 11. This time we have prepared for you a list with the most useful keyboard shortcuts. Show video in full screen – ALT+ENTER Switch to full mode – CTRL+1.

Windows Media Player is the media player included with Windows. Like most media players, it has a set of keyboard shortcuts to provide quicker access to options. These are a few of the Media Player’s handy keyboard shortcuts.

PLAY MUSIC WITH KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS

You can play music with the Windows Media Player keyboard shortcuts. Select a audio file in Windows Media Player, and then press Ctrl + P to play it. Pressing that keyboard shortcut also pauses video and audio. To stop the playback, press the Ctrl + S shortcut key. The fast forward button also has a shortcut key. Press Ctrl + Shift + F to fast forward through an audio track.

There are also keyboard keys for volume settings. Press the F8 key to increase volume, and the F9 shortcut key decreases it. The F7 key mutes, or unmutes, the volume.

PLAY VIDEO WITH KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS

The keyboard shortcuts for playing, stopping, fast forwarding increasing/decreasing and muting volume are exactly the same for videos. You can play a video from CD/DVD by pressing Ctrl + J to eject the CD/DVD drive. For full-screen video mode, press the Alt + Enter keyboard shortcuts. To zoom in or out when videos are playing, press Alt + 1, Alt + 2 or Alt + 3. Rewind videos with the Ctrl + Shift + B keyboard shortcut.

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The Windows Media Player has a skin mode that shows visualization effects when playing audio files. You can quickly switch to skin mode, in the shot below, by pressing Ctrl + 2. Press F1 to return to full mode.

Windows Media Player also has a menu bar that you can select options from. Press Ctrl + M to show/hide the menu bar in full-mode as below.

Most albums have box art on the full-mode window. You can expand the size of the box art by selecting it and pressing Ctrl + F6. To shrink the box art, press the F6 key.

Those are just a few of the notable Windows Media Player keyboard shortcuts. Note that there may be some variation for those shortcut keys in different versions of Windows Media Player, but in versions 11 and 12 they should be fine.

Despite what you may have read and despite what all those “Microsoft-is-out-to-steal-your-soul” doomsday bloggers have written, we are here to tell you:

Yes, Virginia, there is a Windows Media Player in Windows 10 and it plays music and video. Not only does it do what it has always done, it’s easy to make it your default media player in Windows 10. And besides making it the default music player and video player, you can create shortcuts for Windows Media Player on your start menu, taskbar, or desktop – YES! Just like the good old days, I tells ya.

Making Windows Media Player your default music player is easy.

Click the start button
Click Settings
Click System
Find Default Apps on the left pane
Scroll down
Find Music player
Click on Groove Player (if it’s set as default) or if not, the big plus sign
Choose “Windows Media Player” by clicking it

OK got it? You set your default video player the same way.

Now if that’s not enough Windows Media Player options for you, you can create shortcuts on your desktop, start menu and taskbar for Windows Media Player, quickly and easily:

Navigate to: C:Program Files (x86)Windows Media Player.

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Find Windows Media Player (application) and right click on it.

Add Windows Media Player Shortcut To Desktop

Choose Pin to Start
Choose Pin to Taskbar
Choose Send to —>Desktop (create shortcut)

Desktop Shortcut For Windows Media Player

See all those naysayers and sensationalists were wrong! Windows Media Player is alive and well in Windows 10.

Windows Media Player Desktop Shortcut