440 seat deployment of Vista

At my company we are in the process of making a decision on upgrading 440
seats to Vista.
The main requirment is being able to open multiple instances of media player.

In testing Windows Media Player, I was unable to locate were you select the
option to allow WMP to open mutiple video files at once. Currently when I am
playing a file and select another file, it opens it in the same player
instance.

As this option is a standard in all players I am sure it is just user
error...If anyone knows were the button is located please let me know...lol

Can I open multiple instances of the Player?
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...stomizing.mspx


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Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User

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"mames1701" wrote:

At my company we are in the process of making a decision on upgrading 440
seats to Vista.
The main requirment is being able to open multiple instances of media player.

In testing Windows Media Player, I was unable to locate were you select the
option to allow WMP to open mutiple video files at once. Currently when I am
playing a file and select another file, it opens it in the same player
instance.

As this option is a standard in all players I am sure it is just user
error...If anyone knows were the button is located please let me know...lol

Hi

Judging by this document it would appear not:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...stomizing.mspx

You can however use the older player 6.4 in this way. No idea why MS decided
not to implement it in their later products.

"mames1701" <> wrote in message
news:E1B942AC-77F1-4BDA-B8A3-...
> At my company we are in the process of making a decision on upgrading 440
> seats to Vista.
> The main requirment is being able to open multiple instances of media
> player.
>
> In testing Windows Media Player, I was unable to locate were you select
> the
> option to allow WMP to open mutiple video files at once. Currently when I
> am
> playing a file and select another file, it opens it in the same player
> instance.
>
> As this option is a standard in all players I am sure it is just user
> error...If anyone knows were the button is located please let me
> know...lol
>
>
>

WOW, that is strange, why would you remove something that people
use...Microsoft adds tons of copyright track and verification stuff that is
worthless and takes out one of the most viable options...it really makes you
wonder if Windows is the right product for a corporate environment. They seem
to gear everything towards teens and kids.

Thank you for your quick response, it looks like there is no reason to
upgrade anytime soon.



"Joe Black" wrote:

> Hi
>
> Judging by this document it would appear not:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...stomizing.mspx
>
> You can however use the older player 6.4 in this way. No idea why MS decided
> not to implement it in their later products.
>
> "mames1701" <> wrote in message
> news:E1B942AC-77F1-4BDA-B8A3-...
> > At my company we are in the process of making a decision on upgrading 440
> > seats to Vista.
> > The main requirment is being able to open multiple instances of media
> > player.
> >
> > In testing Windows Media Player, I was unable to locate were you select
> > the
> > option to allow WMP to open mutiple video files at once. Currently when I
> > am
> > playing a file and select another file, it opens it in the same player
> > instance.
> >
> > As this option is a standard in all players I am sure it is just user
> > error...If anyone knows were the button is located please let me
> > know...lol
> >
> >
> >
>

Looks like your alterntive is gonna be Quicktime.
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Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
My Vista Quickstart Guide:
http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
"mames1701" <> wrote in message
news:E1B942AC-77F1-4BDA-B8A3-...
> At my company we are in the process of making a decision on upgrading 440
> seats to Vista.
> The main requirment is being able to open multiple instances of media
> player.
>
> In testing Windows Media Player, I was unable to locate were you select
> the
> option to allow WMP to open mutiple video files at once. Currently when I
> am
> playing a file and select another file, it opens it in the same player
> instance.
>
> As this option is a standard in all players I am sure it is just user
> error...If anyone knows were the button is located please let me
> know...lol
>
>

Hi

Just a thought, if there are no features that you particularly want from WMP
11 then you can still use Media Player Classic. Click on View, Options, then
Player settings, where you can change it to open a new player for each
media. You can download it here:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multime...-Win2kXP.shtml

Tried this just now and works fine!

JB

"mames1701" <> wrote in message
news:E980395E-B9E0-4604-9B99-...
> WOW, that is strange, why would you remove something that people
> use...Microsoft adds tons of copyright track and verification stuff that
> is
> worthless and takes out one of the most viable options...it really makes
> you
> wonder if Windows is the right product for a corporate environment. They
> seem
> to gear everything towards teens and kids.
>
> Thank you for your quick response, it looks like there is no reason to
> upgrade anytime soon.
>
>
>
> "Joe Black" wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> Judging by this document it would appear not:
>>
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...stomizing.mspx
>>
>> You can however use the older player 6.4 in this way. No idea why MS
>> decided
>> not to implement it in their later products.
>>
>> "mames1701" <> wrote in message
>> news:E1B942AC-77F1-4BDA-B8A3-...
>> > At my company we are in the process of making a decision on upgrading
>> > 440
>> > seats to Vista.
>> > The main requirment is being able to open multiple instances of media
>> > player.
>> >
>> > In testing Windows Media Player, I was unable to locate were you select
>> > the
>> > option to allow WMP to open mutiple video files at once. Currently when
>> > I
>> > am
>> > playing a file and select another file, it opens it in the same player
>> > instance.
>> >
>> > As this option is a standard in all players I am sure it is just user
>> > error...If anyone knows were the button is located please let me
>> > know...lol
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>

"Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" <> wrote in message
news:uBii%...
> Looks like your alterntive is gonna be Quicktime.

Or better yet Quicktime Alternative, plays quicktime files within mediab
player classic without the overhead and bloat.

Dan

> --
> Andre
> Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
> My Vista Quickstart Guide:
> http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
> "mames1701" <> wrote in message
> news:E1B942AC-77F1-4BDA-B8A3-...
>> At my company we are in the process of making a decision on upgrading 440
>> seats to Vista.
>> The main requirment is being able to open multiple instances of media
>> player.
>>
>> In testing Windows Media Player, I was unable to locate were you select
>> the
>> option to allow WMP to open mutiple video files at once. Currently when I
>> am
>> playing a file and select another file, it opens it in the same player
>> instance.
>>
>> As this option is a standard in all players I am sure it is just user
>> error...If anyone knows were the button is located please let me
>> know...lol
>>
>>
>
>

"Dan" <> wrote:

>
> "Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" <> wrote in
> message news:uBii%...
>> Looks like your alterntive is gonna be Quicktime.
>
> Or better yet Quicktime Alternative, plays quicktime files within
> mediab player classic without the overhead and bloat.

Or even better yet, get the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack that has Quicktime
Alternative, Real Alternative and Media Player Classic plus all the
codecs needed for almost everything.

http://www.k-litecodecpack.com/

I think the current is 1.03

In article <E1B942AC-77F1-4BDA-B8A3->,
Mames1701 wrote:

> we are in the process of making a decision on upgrading 440*
> seats to Vista.*

I hope it is a long stretched out process that will allow plenty of
times for some of the problems to be ironed out other than by you <s>

I like and use VISTA but that's on a personal machine -- I'm retired
thank goodness -- but I'd hesitate to mass deploy it until much later
this year.

You need to check out all your hardware for one thing, external and
internal.

Sorry I can't help on the WMP question. There is a Music Pictures Video
section here .....