WMP 11 setup ???

Under player. What I'm trying to inhibit is the tiny player that first opens when you click on a media file, pauses a moment then the full player opens on the screen. Other computers I've seen with WMP 11 open to the full player immediately, no mini player-no pause- just Play! Now.

I found this from a web site. it's easier to repeat it here but the web site is below;
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Main menus

There are two options for the format of the main menus:

* A new style pop-up menu.
* A conventional menu bar, which is referred to as classic menus.

Both these formats contains bugs in their keyboard navigation, but the bug in the classic menus is more severe, and so it's recommended that you use the new style pop-up menu, which Windows Media Player uses by default. If you want to change between the two formats, press CTRL + M. The two menu formats are described in the next sections.
New style pop-up menu

* Press ALT to open the pop-up menu, which contains sub-menus for File, View, Play, Tools, and Help. As usual you can open the selected sub-menu by pressing RIGHT ARROW or ENTER.

BUG WARNING: The first time that you open this pop-up menu after you have logged into the computer, none of the keystrokes for navigating the window work. However, if you press ALT + TAB the pop-up menu closes, and if you then press ALT, the pop-up menu works correctly.
* To close the pop-up menu, press ESC.
* To directly open the File menu, press ALT + F as usual, and similarly for the View, Play, Tools, and Help menus.

Classic menus

There is a severe bug in the keyboard navigation of the conventional menu bar. If you press ALT to move to the menu bar, then the two standard keystrokes to leave the menu bar, ALT and ESC both don't work. There are work arounds, but it's easiest to use the new style pop-up menu.
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http://vip.chowo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/jaws/Windows-Media-Player-11-Guide.html#main-menus

Mark

I'm working thru regedit on another machine-side by side- to try and find the difference. I've seen all sotrs of other answers to similar questions and can't believe that I'm the only one this has ever happened to. I've tried removing WMP11 back to ten, same behavior. This is XP pro so I should be able to go back to 9 but the remover fails with a vengeance. If I try to reinstall ten on itself I get a message that the WMP 10 downloaded from Microsoft is not for this version of Windows. Say what? I'm about ready to hose the media player stuff in the registry out and then try a repair install. Is there any way to re-install the media player from the XP CD?

It's at the FAQ I noted. In fact, that's where I got the info to do the last toasting.

After I yanked every kind of knot in it's tail, was to remove WMP 11, try removing 10, the use a registry cleaner to kill everything associated with windows media player to where it tried to open files with good old WMP nine, but failed with one of those 'Expected file version was ---" then did a repair install from the genuine xp cd-not much driver fuss, fixd the wups2.dll thing, got all the updates, made a ghost of right then before gently installing WMP10 and that is what's working now-no wierdness-the user is satisfied enough to leave well enough alone. Check the oil and weld the hood shut so to speak.