# Windows media player- playing a certain file on startup.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-media-player-playing-a-certain-file-on-startup/151904>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 31, 2003, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-media-player-playing-a-certain-file-on-startup/151904 "2003-01-31T17:23:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Atrael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Atrael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atrael)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-media-player-playing-a-certain-file-on-startup/151904/1 "2003-01-31T17:23:07Z")

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I’m trying to make a small video for my wife when I’m away on business. I’m looking for a way to tell windows media player to open up a certain file, and then go to full screen mode on start-up. I know back in the “old” days, you used to be able to use different command line prompts to start a program, then perform a series of actions. For example;

c:\windows\mediaplayer.exe /c:\my music\song.mp3 /f (for full screen)

Does anyone know if this is possible now? I can’t find any documentation, and have tried various combinations from the prompt, with no luck. Thanks.

Oh, and I’m using WMP 7.01

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**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-media-player-playing-a-certain-file-on-startup/151904/2 "2003-01-31T19:11:25Z")

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Have you tried the switches listed in KB article [241422](http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;241422)? At least some of them work with WMP 9, so they should work with 7.

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**Author:** ![Atrael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Atrael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atrael)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-media-player-playing-a-certain-file-on-startup/151904/3 "2003-01-31T20:30:36Z")

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_sigh_…you know I swear to god I looked there…I’ll play with those tonight. Thanks Number