How to Keep Windows Media Player on Top in Windows 7?
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Windows 7 comes with Windows Media Player 12 and it does not allow you to dock the media player to the taskbar as it has been redesigned. You can surely preview the media player from the taskbar but you cannot keep it on top so that when you go about browsing online or view other windows. (Hint: If you want to dock WMP on the taskbar, you should downgrade from WMP 12 to WMP 11)
But you can keep the WMP on top so that you can still view the media player while browsing other Windows.
Here are some of the examples of Windows Media Player on Top of other Windows
So how to keep WMP on Top in Windows 7?
Go to the Now Playing mode (View –> Now Playing) or use the Keyboard Shortcut Ctrl + 3.
Right click on the Windows Media Player screen and check Always show Now Playing on top
Now which ever window you browse or view, the Windows Media Player will stay on top.
You can also resize the WMP window to the smallest size and keep it on one corner so that it will not disturb the other work that you might be still doing while having WMP on top.
What to do if you temporarily dont want WMP on top?
Just use the Minimize button on the top right corner (or use the keyboard shortcut to minimize and maximize windows)
If you are using WMP, you can also learn how to use Windows Media Player as Alarm Clock? and Read how to keep Windows Media Center on top of other Windows?
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Very interesting. The player needs a special menu selection to keep its window on top, should the focus shift to a window beneath it.
I am curious: does this mean, even in Windows 7, there isn’t (yet) a function built-into to window manager itself to selectively keep *any* window “on top”?
I’m thinking of the small push-pins in each window’s corner that serve this function in window managers in other operating systems … nothing like that available, in functionality at least, without going to third-party utilities?