Need Help with Command-Line switches

[Kendall]

Hello,

I'm trying to create an entry in the registry that will play a short
video in full screen once.
I've placed the following entry in:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce]

"C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe" /fullscreen /play
/close c:\shortclip.wmv

This will play the video, but not in full screen and media player will
not close once the video has finished.
It also will start to play while the welcome screen is still up, so
you miss the first 5 seconds of the video.
I'm pretty sure there is a way to do this, because on a fresh install
of windows, the short little clip of the windows xp logo coming
together (intro.wmv) is displayed before you go through the
registration process.

These are the only command line switches I know about. Are there any
others?

/play
/close
/fullscreen
/embedding run as an OLE server <---- what is this????


Thanks,
Kendall

[zachd [ms]]

http://www.nwlink.com/~zachd/pss/pss.html#commandline
covers the options that I'm aware of. Fullscreen isn't one. :(

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Post by Kendall
Hello,
I'm trying to create an entry in the registry that will play a short
video in full screen once.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce]
"C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe" /fullscreen /play
/close c:\shortclip.wmv
This will play the video, but not in full screen and media player will
not close once the video has finished.
It also will start to play while the welcome screen is still up, so
you miss the first 5 seconds of the video.
I'm pretty sure there is a way to do this, because on a fresh install
of windows, the short little clip of the windows xp logo coming
together (intro.wmv) is displayed before you go through the
registration process.
These are the only command line switches I know about. Are there any
others?
/play
/close
/fullscreen
/embedding run as an OLE server <---- what is this????
Thanks,
Kendall