There are a few keyboard and mouse shortcuts in Windows Media Player 11 that are handy to know just in case you ever need to use them.

Switching between skinned and non-skinned mode

Non-skinned: CTRL+1

Skinned: CTRL+2

If you have a kid that sometimes "messes with" the media player and it has this weird skin on it (such as the way it looks at the top of this article), CTRL+1 will fix that in short order so it goes back to "full mode", like this:

Getting the menus to show up on the top bar

The keystroke for this is CTRL+M. To hide them, press CTRL+M again.

Going to compact mode

To make Media Player look like this…

…hit the bottom right arrow (the one at the extreme bottom right). Hit it again to bring Media Player back to full mode.

The list pane disappears, how do you bring it back?

If your Media Player looks like this:

You can bring back the list pane on the right by clicking the small down arrow under Now Playing (top left) and clicking Show List Pane.

Like this:

…and then your Media Player will get the list pane back.

Showing the enhancements

If you want your media player to have extra options like this:

…click the down arrow under Now Playing, then Enhancements, then Show Enhancements, like this:

Alternatively you can directly pick what enhancement you want to view from here also (like Color Chooser or Graphic Equalizer).

Removing this panel can be done by clicking the small X at the top right of that pane, or by clicking Now Playing then Enhancements then Show Enhancements again to hide it.

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