If you are sick of Windows Media Player opening up the whole player every time you run a song then you can do this tweak that will set it to just open the mini player when you play a song;

  • Open windows media player
  • Click now playing > more options
  • Click the player tab
  • Make sure ‘start the mini player…’ is checked
  • Now you have to add something in the line underneath, basically any word that will be in music files that you start (examples below)
    • add mp3 if all your music files are mp3′s
    • add the drive name if all files are kept in the one drive (eg. C:)
  • Click apply
  • Done
Start the Mini Player