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[email protected] January 31st 10 01:53 PM

How to deal with task bar
 
I am using XP SP3, I am trying to look at a series of .mov files in a
folder, one file at a time.
When I double click on one of the .mov files, it quite naturally
executes Quicktime V7.0 to 'play' the .mov, since that is the default
for .mov files.
What I don't like is that Quicktime always opens to play the .mov with
its 'play' button (and its other controls too) hidden behind the task
bar at the bottom of the screen.
I can manually shrink Quicktime's window so as to expose the play
button, but how can I make Quicktime come up automatically on top of
the task bar, so's I can see the quicktime controls?

This may be a dumb question, and if so, I am sorry. But I really
would like to know.

Anyone?


Jerry January 31st 10 09:37 PM

How to deal with task bar
 
Move the mouse to a blank area on the taskbar, right-click, select
Properties and in the Taskbar appearance window uncheck "Keep ther taskbar
on top of other windows".

wrote in message
...
I am using XP SP3, I am trying to look at a series of .mov files in a
folder, one file at a time.
When I double click on one of the .mov files, it quite naturally
executes Quicktime V7.0 to 'play' the .mov, since that is the default
for .mov files.
What I don't like is that Quicktime always opens to play the .mov with
its 'play' button (and its other controls too) hidden behind the task
bar at the bottom of the screen.
I can manually shrink Quicktime's window so as to expose the play
button, but how can I make Quicktime come up automatically on top of
the task bar, so's I can see the quicktime controls?

This may be a dumb question, and if so, I am sorry. But I really
would like to know.

Anyone?




Jerry January 31st 10 09:37 PM

How to deal with task bar
 
Move the mouse to a blank area on the taskbar, right-click, select
Properties and in the Taskbar appearance window uncheck "Keep ther taskbar
on top of other windows".

wrote in message
...
I am using XP SP3, I am trying to look at a series of .mov files in a
folder, one file at a time.
When I double click on one of the .mov files, it quite naturally
executes Quicktime V7.0 to 'play' the .mov, since that is the default
for .mov files.
What I don't like is that Quicktime always opens to play the .mov with
its 'play' button (and its other controls too) hidden behind the task
bar at the bottom of the screen.
I can manually shrink Quicktime's window so as to expose the play
button, but how can I make Quicktime come up automatically on top of
the task bar, so's I can see the quicktime controls?

This may be a dumb question, and if so, I am sorry. But I really
would like to know.

Anyone?




J. P. Gilliver (John) February 2nd 10 08:21 AM

How to deal with task bar
 
In message , Jerry
writes:
Move the mouse to a blank area on the taskbar, right-click, select
Properties and in the Taskbar appearance window uncheck "Keep ther taskbar
on top of other windows".

[]
I can manually shrink Quicktime's window so as to expose the play
button, but how can I make Quicktime come up automatically on top of
the task bar, so's I can see the quicktime controls?

[]
Or set the taskbar to autohide.

Can you select some sort of full-screen mode in Quicktime (or is it, but
behind the taskbar)? VLC, for example, toggles with F11 (and it comes in
front of the taskbar, even though I think I have taskbar set to keep on
top), and it also has another toggle (involving the H key IIRR) to
hide/make visible the controls.
--
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** http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for ludicrously
outdated thoughts on PCs. **

"The first objective of any tyrant in Whitehall would be to make Parliament
utterly subservient to his will; and the next to overturn or diminish trial by
jury ..." Lord Devlin (http://www.holbornchambers.co.uk)

J. P. Gilliver (John) February 2nd 10 08:21 AM

How to deal with task bar
 
In message , Jerry
writes:
Move the mouse to a blank area on the taskbar, right-click, select
Properties and in the Taskbar appearance window uncheck "Keep ther taskbar
on top of other windows".

[]
I can manually shrink Quicktime's window so as to expose the play
button, but how can I make Quicktime come up automatically on top of
the task bar, so's I can see the quicktime controls?

[]
Or set the taskbar to autohide.

Can you select some sort of full-screen mode in Quicktime (or is it, but
behind the taskbar)? VLC, for example, toggles with F11 (and it comes in
front of the taskbar, even though I think I have taskbar set to keep on
top), and it also has another toggle (involving the H key IIRR) to
hide/make visible the controls.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
** http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for ludicrously
outdated thoughts on PCs. **

"The first objective of any tyrant in Whitehall would be to make Parliament
utterly subservient to his will; and the next to overturn or diminish trial by
jury ..." Lord Devlin (http://www.holbornchambers.co.uk)


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