MiniPlayer on Windows 11 does not work [#19615]

[philw]

I was trying to use the "Micro Player" on Windows 11, latest version, MM5 latest version gold. A small modal says:

The MicroPlayer is not yet enabled. To enable it...

And those instructions probably worked for earlier versions of Windows, but if this relies on "toolbars" then I think it's not going to work any more as they didn't put them in Windows 11 as far as I'm aware.

[Peke]

Hi,
Windows 11 do not support Taskbar Apps and thus Micro Player is not available.

[jduffus]

Realized this today when setting up a new machine on Win11. No more custom taskbars.

Maybe you should disable that option on Win11 installations?

[Ludek]

Hi, this issue is tracked as https://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=19615

The only workaround for now is installing ExplorerPatcher: https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher