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Windows Media Player titlebar bug

Submitted by formula_86 on January 25, 2010 to Annoyance, Bug

When using registry editor to create a custom title bar for Windows Media Player so that it would say "Windows Media Player provided by<whatever you want>" it would work in Windows XP with WMP 8 through to version 10. In Windows 7, you can see the titlebar customisation in the tooltip ontop of the thumbnail for the program in the taskbar, but even when WMP is switched to full mode, the customisation can't be seen.

Make the customisation appear on the titlebar of WMP at all times.

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Discussion (5 comments)

Calum.Cook wrote on January 25, 2010, 7:54pm

Why would anyone want customised title bar text...?

Indrek wrote on January 25, 2010, 8:07pm

Same reason companies insist on putting "provided by ..." into IE's title bar, I guess.

Anyway, I'm hesitant about promoting this. If it were a documented feature, then sure, but registry hacks come with an implicit "at your own risk" clause.

MikeW wrote on January 26, 2010, 1:23am

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visual clutter for vanity.

pedro_cesar wrote on January 27, 2010, 5:58am

Indrek is right. Remember the registry is something we're pulling from way back in time and -thankfully- less sensitive data is been taken out of the registry. Any changes u make to it is @ your own risk, if anything stops working is really unlikely it's a bug.

xombie wrote on January 29, 2010, 2:00am

Er, you want support for a registry hack?

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