Strange box with magnifying glass opens everytime I open VLC

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Strange box with magnifying glass opens everytime I open VLC

Postby Keael » 14 Jan 2009 20:07

This has only been happening for about a week now, and I'm not sure what I've downloaded that would make VLC do this. Here's a screenshot of what it looks like:

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Re: Strange box with magnifying glass opens everytime I open VLC

Postby VLC_help » 15 Jan 2009 18:22

How do you start the VLC?

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Re: Strange box with magnifying glass opens everytime I open VLC

Postby Keael » 19 Jan 2009 20:50

I just load it up from the desktop, it never used to do this... I have no idea what's going on :|

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Re: Strange box with magnifying glass opens everytime I open VLC

Postby VLC_help » 20 Jan 2009 18:14

Does it happen if you start VLC by double clicking the vlc.exe?

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Re: Strange box with magnifying glass opens everytime I open VLC

Postby Keael » 21 Jan 2009 03:14

Oops! Actually, it only happens when I open a movie with VLC. Which is also when my computer changes to the Windows Vista Basic scheme.

If I open VLC on it's own, then it's fine.. I'm soo confused..

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Re: Strange box with magnifying glass opens everytime I open VLC

Postby VLC_help » 21 Jan 2009 17:47

Have you changed your video output module from VLC settings? Because DirectX 3D should default for Vista and it shouldn't disable Aero.

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Re: Strange box with magnifying glass opens everytime I open VLC

Postby Keael » 22 Jan 2009 18:38

I tried Direct3D and it still happened, so I switched to OpenGL and everything's perfect, it doesn't even switch to windows basic!


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