Making Media Player Classic have the focus when active?

[DRP]

I use Media Player Classic to view videos on the computer. It's a great program but there's one thing I find annoying about it. If it's already open (but not playing anything) and then I double click on another video file in the file system, MPC doesn't automatically take the focus back when it starts to play the new video.

WMP does take the focus back whenever it starts to play a new file. How can I make MPC behave the same way?

[BillyB]

What I think you mean by 'focus' is the file association with a certain player. You might always want DAT files to play with Classic player for example, so you have to set your OS to do that automatically.

It depends a bit on your OS, since XP is the easiest. Find the file that you'd like opened by WPC and right-click on it. From the menu choose properties then the General tab. Is shows the type of file and what it's being opened with. Click the Change button and choose the WPC from the propram list and click OK.

Win98 is the same sort of thing, except you go through the folder options (at the top of Windows explorer for example) and choose File Types tab and choose a program manually.

[DRP]

No. By focus I mean that the MPC window should become the active window and therefore uppermost of all current open windows as soon as it starts to play a new video.

At present it doesn't do this on my W2K installation. The program window while still open remains where it is. ie. if you use Windows Explorer to double click a video file and Explorer is maximised and over the top of MPC, then double clicking the video file loads that video into MPC but it remains hidden from view because Explorer is covering the MPC window.

With WMP this is not the case, because as soon as a new video is loaded into WMP by whatever means, the WMP window then takes the focus and becomes the uppermost top window and is therefore visible immediately without having to click the taskbar icon.