Desktop shortcut for Windows Media Player 11

[Ron Hirsch]

I've searched high and low in Google and the MS knowledge Base, but cannot
find a way to create a desktop shortcut for Windows Media Player 11.

This is of course not a "calamity", just a minor inconvenience. I used a
workaround and generated a shortcut for a WMA file. Double clicking on it
opens Media Player 11, and starts playing the song, which I can then stop to
do whatever I want to do in WMP 11.

But I see no path in XP Pro, fully updated and patched, to create a "normal"
desktop icon for WMP 11.

Does anyone know the path to do this??

Ron Hirsch

 

[George Gee]

My Computer\C\Program Files\Windows Media Player.
Locate wmplayer, right-click, select 'Create shortcut',
drag to desktop, or cut and paste onto desktop.

George Gee

 

[Ron Hirsch]

Hi George,

I didn't realize the WMP was prominently visible in the listing under
Program Files. I somehow got an erroneous impression that MS had secreted it
away somewhere. <G>

Once you reminded me that it is clearly there (I should have looked
earlier), creating the shortcut was of course no problem.

Thanks for your prompt reply.

Ron

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My Computer\C\Program Files\Windows Media Player.
Locate wmplayer, right-click, select 'Create shortcut',
drag to desktop, or cut and paste onto desktop.

George Gee

 

[George Gee]

Hi Ron

Glad to see you got it sorted.
Thanks for the feedback.

George Gee