Windows 10: How do I remove the video mini-player that pops up when I click on the quick settings?

I want to universally disable this. This should be very simple, I have no idea why it's so hard.

:)

 

Mouseover causes video and audio files to autoplay in a mini popup window

I've spent two days trying to figure out if this is a feature on Windows 10, or on the HP computer itself, or some weird glitch, and have been unable to find ANYthing.

Quick background: Three days ago I bought a new HP desktop computer with Windows 10 Pro installed. I came to this after using only XP on an old eMachines, so I have no clue what things in recent years are standard or "normal" on Windows, etc.

At any rate, here is the issue: when I slide the mouse cursor onto a video or audio file, it immediately opens up a small popup window of a little mini media player and the video and/or audio starts playing; when the cursor moves off that icon it stops and
disappears, so even if one wanted to move the cursor to the mini player to expand it or pause, etc., it is impossible. This happens on the desktop, in Explorer File lists, from external hard-drive lists, anywhere. It does not matter the format (MP4, MP3, etc)
it just begins playing video and/or audio. The mini player itself has no identifying name on it, so I don't know which it is, i.e. it has no name or logo on the player such as Windows Movies & TV, VLC, Windows Media Player, but it SEEMS to most closely resemble
the Movies & TV app installed with Windows 10.

In settings, I have VLC as the go-to video (MP4) icon, and Windows Media Player for audio (MP3), but regardless, this same mini player pops up and begins playing it. I tried turning off Thumbnails but that had no effect. This is highly annoying and--as far
as I can determine--a completely useless feature. It's not as if one is going to hopefully keep the mouse on that exact tiny icon and watch a whole video in a tiny window?

Does anyone know what in the heck this is, and how I can stop it from occurring?

Thank you in advance for any help, suggestions, or insight.

 

Overclocking / Undervolting guide for Vega 56 or 64?

Here's a quick laundry list:

List of software to use for overclocking and testing
Examples:
Wattman (and how to find and use it, like an overview, including profiles)
Unigine Valley or Heaven (use this for quick testing while changing settings in Wattman and checking for stability / artifacts) ...just suggesting this
How to monitor cores / mem speeds and temps during testing (I've seen screen overlays, and others using GPUz)

Step-by step overclocking in Wattman
Fan speeds
Power limit
Temp limit
Voltages
Core speeds
Memory speeds

 

Quick Access not searching Pictures folder

Summary, that last suggestion didn't work.

• I moved the pictures to another folder temporarily.

• Then I tried to remove the Pictures folder with option one at Add or Remove Folders from This PC in Windows 10 | Windows 10 Tutorials. Even after rebooting, the Pictures folder remained.
• So I tried using option two. Same thing: reboot >> Pictures folder still there.

• Since there were no troubleshooting steps for this scenario, just for the heck of it, I ran through the restore steps. Copied some pictures into the Pictures folder, ran a Quick Access search and initial problem remains: Searching all of QA doesn't find any files in Pictures folder, running search on just the Pictures folder does. I want to run a global search and find matching files in any/all of the Documents, Music, Videos, and Pictures folders.

That article dates from 2015 and I'm guessing is out of date. I hope it didn't create potential future problems in my registry.

Bottom line: I'm still looking for a fix.