# Windows Media Player question (Can't watch video full screen)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-media-player-question-cant-watch-video-full-screen/136405>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 12, 2002, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-media-player-question-cant-watch-video-full-screen/136405 "2002-11-12T07:09:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2002, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-media-player-question-cant-watch-video-full-screen/136405/1 "2002-11-12T07:09:23Z")

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So all of a sudden last night I loaded a video and it wouldn’t go to full screen. Thought maybe something was wrong with the video so I loaded the video I had just got done watching and it wouldn’t go full screen either. Then I thought maybe I didn’t have enough RAM to display it (512MB RAM, 32MB Video) so I closed several programs and it still didn’t work. Rebooted, no dice. Today it was working fine, but I have no idea why as I haven’t tweaked anything. Now it’s not working again. I’m running XP Pro and WMP 8 (not the beta one.)

Does anybody have any clue as to what might be going on? Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2002, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-media-player-question-cant-watch-video-full-screen/136405/2 "2002-11-13T11:13:07Z")

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Does _anybody_ have _any_ ideas? Could I possibly be the only person on the SDMB that this has ever happened to?