
You may try to select another toolbar like Links and activate it and deactivate it, repeat, repeat, repeat until Windows Media Payer shows up. You may not see it appear at first, since explorer process (that contains taskbar process) has to be refreshed. Right-click on TaskBar, hover Toolbars and select Windows Media Player.Run Windows Media Player and minimize it.Click Yes to User Account Control pop-up.Right-click on WMPTaskbarInstaller64.inf and click Install.Your user account must be part Administrators group or you know Administrator password to install for this install to work. You must set-up Windows Media Player first and played at least 1 audio file.

The source of the wmpband.dll comes from Windows 7. The WMPTaskbarInstaller64.inf file is old style (Win95) installer file that installs task-bar Windows Media Mini-Player dll (wmpband.dll) for your computer.

1 click install and and proper uninstall - no registry files required.This was a innovative feature, that oddly got removed? Well, this installer will get it back for you. Moreover, it displays the currently playing album, artist and provides next song pop-ups. The WMP Mini-Player allows you to access the media player right from the Taskbar or system tray area. Windows Media Player 12+ version was missing the one of the best features of older Windows Media Players (WMP) and that was the mini-player that appeared when you minimized it.
