Windows Media player may have just been the default media player on many Windows versions but it was actually pretty decent. The most useful feature was the toolbar that appeared when the player was minimised but for some reason, MS omitted this feature in Windows 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Download the zip file below and extract the wmpband.dll from the appropriate folder according to your system architecture (typically the 64 folder).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Copy the file to the C:\\Program Files\\Windows Media Player<\/strong>\u00a0folder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Using Services.msc<\/strong> (CTRL+R and type it in), stop the Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As administrator, run the following command in the command prompt (CTRL+R and type cmd):<\/p>\n\n\n\n A success message should appear after a few seconds. Launch Windows Media Player and minimise it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Right-click on the Taskbar, go to\u00a0Toolbars, and then select\u00a0Windows Media Player. Click Yes if you get the \u201cThe Windows Media Player toolbar isn\u2019t compatible with this version of Windows\u201d message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Windows Media Player toolbar will now be visible in the taskbar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Windows Media player may have just been the default media player on many Windows versions but it was actually pretty decent. The most useful feature was the toolbar that appeared when the player was minimised but for some reason, MS omitted this feature in Windows 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[82],"tags":[96],"class_list":["post-2402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ict-issues","tag-media"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"james","author_link":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/author\/james\/"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89zH1-CK","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2404,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402\/revisions\/2404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}regsvr32 \u201cc:\\Program Files\\Windows Media Player\\wmpband.dll\u201d<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n