I'm having trouble with a shortcut-key combination, which always opens up Windows Media Player, even if I'm inside another program. The combination is Alt+Shift+P, and I'm trying to set it as a shortcut key combination within Adobe InDesign, as it is much more convenient than the one specified for the action concerned. But when I go to the correct box, in which the new combination should be entered, and press Alt+Shift+P, it just opens up Media Player, which is now driving me mad!!! I've discovered, incidentally, that exactly the same things happen, for example, if I go to Record New Macro in Word. So this means I can't use it within any program. I can't find any reference to this problem on Microsoft's website, and I'm wondering if my machine is perhaps set up in some bizarre, unique way - although I haven't changed anything related to this since it arrived, I don't think. Finally, when I go to WinXP help, there are instructions to change shortcut keys for particular programs (search WXP help for "specify shortcut keys"), but when I follow these instructions, the file wmplayer.exe, which is presumably the one I have to select to change this setting (you'll understand what I'm going on about if you read that help article), doesn't contain the options specified (and in any case the article says you can't use "shift" in this process!!!) Am I recuded to having to uninstall Media Player, and then reinstall it each time I need it (which is often)!!!??? Any help would be deeply appreciated! Max

Do you have a Nvidia graphics card? If you do, it might be a shortcut key combination in the Nview Desktop settings. Fed up with Windows? Try Ubuntu Linux

I do, but I just checked and all the "Nview desktop manager" are disabled... Thanks anyway. Any other ideas?

Also, I've just spoken to a friend, who gets exactly the same response to Shift+Alt+P, and his machine has a Radeon graphics card... (Thanks again...)

From Windows Media Player's Help file: Restore the Player from mini Player mode ALT+SHIFT+P

Hi Max Sleeman, tonysathre, Bryan, hi everyone Briefly looked in to it on a Dell with, if I am not mistaken, a Intel graphics/video card and experienced the same thing happening. Note: Windows Media Player wasn't running at all. I Googled for Dell shortcut keys Alt-Shift-P, or something like that and tentatively concluded that it may have some thing to do with a program called EZbutton*, further investigations are scheduled for tomorrow. * EZbutton is a quick launcher for the Media player app that comes with certain laptops. Typically installed in a C:\Program Files\EzButton folder. Do you have such a folder, named EzButton, on your hard disk drive? If yes, do you have a EzButton process running in your Task Manager? If yes again, what happens if you kill that particular process and than press [Alt]+[Shift]+[P]key combination? BTW, never realized, correction knew, there were that many shortcut keys within the Windows Media Player. Obviously not a frequently used program by myself. %-) Controlling Windows Media Player with Keyboard Shortcuts. (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/ knowledgecenter/howto/WMP10_shortcuts.aspx) Best Regards and Wishes, The Count, Co-webmaster of mesich.com Above is a temporary address

Hi Max Sleeman, tonysathre, Bryan, hi everyone No progress has been made at this end so far, sorry... Best Regards and Wishes, The Count, Co-webmaster of mesich.com Above is a temporary address