Windows Media Player 12: How to permanently display the list pane

Thanks for answering whatever question you answered here but this isn't the problem people posting here are having - as usual MS policy, the question was a math question and your answer was a color.

 

 

 

All of the normal options as mentioned above regarding Organize → Layout → etc. but to get this to work I also did the following:

→ play video in your playlist or start playing playlist to populate in sidebar

→ right-click anywhere on playing video

→ Video

→ make sure both are checked:

    √ Fit Player to Video on Resize

    √ Fit Player to Video (this has to be checked for this to work)

→ right-click and Show List

→ test by clicking through each selection.

If list closes, just close WMP 12 and re-open and it should work. Now if I could only get rid of that rating column.

 

 

this appears to be the correct solution , might i add 'fit player to video' button is probably miss labeled and works backwards to its intended labeling or what the words mean , because lets face it , microsoft ppl are often idiots , logically ,' fitting a player to the video' would eliminate the list pane and not keep it , in the english language anyhow, i am still trying to figure out microspeak and i am a highlevel genius  

thanks minty fressh , i had mine working correctly yesterday , then wasted a good hour trying to figure out what i did yesterday and why today its doing microstupid(microspeak) ____

And here I thought there was something wrong with my installation of Windows Media Player 12 since it wouldn't remember my preferred settings upon startup. I too want the list pane to show permanently when I open Media Player and when I load a new batch of videos. It's very annoying to have to click Show List Pane every time I open a new batch of videos to check if they're cued in the right order.

About the solution suggested by the moderator/Microsoft support personnel... It doesn't make sense to create a playlist for a set of videos I'm only going to watch once. I would have to delete the playlist after watching the videos and that's another hassle aside from creating the playlist in the first place.

I know this isn't related to the issue at hand, but I have another concern. I also want Media Player to not resize the window with the video played so I unchecked Fit player to video. The result is that Media Player stretches bigger than my screen. I can't see the right and bottom edges anymore. How do I make the window open maximized to fit my screen perfectly each and every time I play a video? I click maximize each and every time, but when I restart Media Player or open a new video, it goes back to being oversized. (Note: I don't mean full screen. I want the window with the list pane to launch maximized.) Basically, all I want is for Windows Media Player to remember how I configured it last and stick to it.

my favorite windows media player was version 9 something

have had it for a long long time and loved it on XP

wish I could keep that... but noooo windows must want user to have the latest 12

very disappointed at version 12 for this very issue

one other thing - can not choose background colour on the playlist

and another annoying thing - the horizontal scroll bar for the playback appears to be much smaller and a thinner target for my mouse, now it's just like a line-- hey i'm getting old i wish them scroll bars were as large as before.

really hoping the next windows media player is a step forward, rather than a step backward

or does anyone know how to install older version of windows media player?