How to chnange the aspect ratio of the Media Center window - Useful tip!!!

raymundka

raymundka

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You cannot find this trick on MS Help and support but may like it.

You can toggle between 16:9 and 4:3 aspect ratio (normal and wide screen)
in Windows Media Center the following way:

Keep the Ctrl key pressed on your keyboard.
Drag any edge (side and not the corner!) of the Media center window and move the
mouse until the aspect ratio changes.
enjoy
 

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It's these little things that make it worthwhile - and enable you to reduce your slightly-less-clued-up friends to a state of humbled stupefaction :0
 

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Hello clkarn,

Welcome to the forums.

The aspect ratio is the width/height of the monitor. 4/3 (800x600 etc.) for regular monitors and 16/9 for widescreen monitors. When video or pics are produced at one aspect ratio and viewed at another they can look very odd. This is why viewing a widescreen movie on a 4/3 tv or monitor shows a blank area top and bottom of the screen.

Gary
 

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whenever i start windows media player, it's not showing the cursor, I dont know why? can anybody help me in this matter...????
 

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Thanks for that handy tip.

I was tearing my hair out trying to figure out why the aspect ratio of the Media Centre window had changed and why I couldn't see any settings to change/control it!
 

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Sorry for the 2-year bump...

But I only recently began to use Media Centre, and I could not figure how to change the ratio when it was less than full-screen.

It was maddening....more than you know.

I joined up just to say thanks, if Raymudke is still around.
 

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Neat learn, I too use the media center periodically. I need to get a better tuner, any ideas?
 

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