double-click .mkv opens vlc without the GUI

[graysky]

Just installed 1.0.3 and when I double-click a video file a new windows options entitled, "VLC (hardware YUV overlay DirectX output" that has no buttons/VLC GUI. How can I disable this behavior?

[VLC_help]

Remove %appdata%\vlc folder.

[rickd24]

I couldn't find this folder to delete it. I looked in C:\Documents and Settings\xxxxxx\Application Data\ but didn't see it there.

Am I looking in the wrong place? How do I find %appdata%? Can you be more specific to where it's located? Thanks.


Rick

P.S. Why should I have to do this in the first place? Why isn't it just working the way it did with all previous versions?

[rickd24]

I couldn't find this folder to delete it. I looked in C:\Documents and Settings\xxxxxx\Application Data\ but didn't see it there.

Am I looking in the wrong place? How do I find %appdata%? Can you be more specific to where it's located? Thanks.


Rick

P.S. Why should I have to do this in the first place? Why isn't it just working the way it did with all previous versions?

Well, I just got my answer. It turned out that my installation wasn't complete. There was a window about "Privacy and Network Policies" that required me to click on the OK button. The problem was that the window didn't pop up to the front of all of my other open windows, it was buried beneath a few of them. And it wasn't showing in my Taskbar either. I didn't see it until after I had closed the windows on top of it. Once I saw the window and clicked on OK, the player worked just fine.

By the way, I just checked in C:\Documents and Settings\xxxxxx\Application Data\, and the vlc subfolder is in there now. So the reason it wasn't there before must have been because the installation wasn't completely done.