This is a second try at a problem/post I put-up a few days ago. I had some
names and facts wrong so I think it is best to restart from scratch...

I have setup WMC on a Vista box. Everything works fine except
when I scroll to the Video Library section the first folder is named after
the name of my c: drive
"MediaCenter1" .

This folder contains strange sub folders (16 of them) with titles like:-
Create Disk -- with subfolders - Components, Filters, SFXPlugins, Sonic
Resources, Stte, Styles
en-US -- with one subfolder Intro -- (Some kind of short demo video of
people in a room)
MIX -- with one subfolder Intro -- X02
Aspectratio4X3 (billiards demo). there are 16 in all.

When I go to my C:\ directory I find .wmv with titles like these in the
"C:\Windows\ehome" folder
(along with many .dll's etc.). Clearly WMC is including this folder in my
Video Library. I cannot seem to get rid of it. I tried including the folder
C:\ in the files to watch and then removed them from the files to watch with
no success.

Put simply. How do you remove a folder from the WMC video library listing.
Is there some Registry entry?




....


the Video folder (where I have a few sub folders each containing a number of
.avi files) I have a problem. The first sub-folder listed (which happens to
have the name I gave the computer itself, "Media_Center_1", has 16 short
video files (.WMV's) that I cannot locate. WMC will not let me delete these
files. More annoying I cannot locate, remove, or even hide that folder. It's
a bit of an eye sore amongst my own folders. It's not on my WMC list of
folders to watch for changes etc.

Any suggestions how I locate/remove this folder from being listed.

The other Vista box does not display this folder. I am really puzzled!





OK It looks like I got things a little mixed up in names. "Media_Center_1"
is the name I have for the
problem WMC computer. "MediaCenter1" is the name I have for the C: drive.
This is the offending folder
that appears in the WMC Video library (see below). This is the folder I wish
to remove. It contains strange sub folders (16 of them) with tittles like:-
Create Disk -- with subfolders - Components, Filters, SFXPlugins,
SonicResources, Stte, Styles
en-US -- with one subfolder Intro -- (Some kind of short demo video of
people in a room)
MCX -- with one subfolder Intro -- X02
Aspectratio4X3 (billards demo)
....
Ther are 16 of these strange folders. The all seem to be related to WMC but
I cannot figure how to stop them appearing in the Library listing.

C:\ is not in my list of folders to watch. The actual files are in some
kind of strange \Windows directory with all kinds of strange numbers in the
names.

Re: Removing an Unwanted/Strange Folder from a WMC Video Library listing by Nigel

Nigel
Sun Jun 29 03:33:33 PDT 2008

On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:40:41 -0700, "John Monahan" <monahan@vitasoft.org>
wrote:

>Aspectratio4X3 (billiards demo). there are 16 in all.
>
>When I go to my C:\ directory I find .wmv with titles like these in the
>"C:\Windows\ehome" folder
>(along with many .dll's etc.). Clearly WMC is including this folder in my
>Video Library. I cannot seem to get rid of it. I tried including the folder
>C:\ in the files to watch and then removed them from the files to watch with
>no success.
>
>Put simply. How do you remove a folder from the WMC video library listing.
>Is there some Registry entry?

Make sure that you scroll down to the bottom of the list of folders to watch in
the Video Library as for some design reason only 3 entries are displayed on the
screen.

There is a registry entry where these values are stored. I don't have a Vista
media Center system to hand at the moment but if create a folder c:\QQQQQQ &
then add it as a watched folder then search through the registry for QQQQQQ
then you will find the correct location.
--

Cheers

Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur
MCE MVP

Re: Removing an Unwanted/Strange Folder from a WMC Video Library listing by John

John
Sun Jun 29 10:00:50 PDT 2008

Thanks Nigel, that was a good suggestion. However when I did that (and found
where the folders were listed with regedit) it was not listed. There were 4
folders listed which were correct (at MediaPlayer>Preferences
>TrackFoldersDirectories).

In fact when I made a global search for "MediaCenter1", the name of my C:
drive, the offending folder was listed only once in all of the registry and
that was not in the Media player preferences section. Is there some other
location Media Player or WMC is storing a list of folders to display.



"Nigel Barker" <nigel@nigelbarker.com> wrote in message
news:dtme64tqn8q1bq211160nphoovpappm7g1@4ax.com...
> On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:40:41 -0700, "John Monahan" <monahan@vitasoft.org>
> wrote:
>
>>Aspectratio4X3 (billiards demo). there are 16 in all.
>>
>>When I go to my C:\ directory I find .wmv with titles like these in the
>>"C:\Windows\ehome" folder
>>(along with many .dll's etc.). Clearly WMC is including this folder in my
>>Video Library. I cannot seem to get rid of it. I tried including the
>>folder
>>C:\ in the files to watch and then removed them from the files to watch
>>with
>>no success.
>>
>>Put simply. How do you remove a folder from the WMC video library
>>listing.
>>Is there some Registry entry?
>
> Make sure that you scroll down to the bottom of the list of folders to
> watch in
> the Video Library as for some design reason only 3 entries are displayed
> on the
> screen.
>
> There is a registry entry where these values are stored. I don't have a
> Vista
> media Center system to hand at the moment but if create a folder c:\QQQQQQ
> &
> then add it as a watched folder then search through the registry for
> QQQQQQ
> then you will find the correct location.
> --
>
> Cheers
>
> Nigel Barker
> Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur
> MCE MVP


Re: Removing an Unwanted/Strange Folder from a WMC Video Library listing by Nigel

Nigel
Sun Jun 29 10:37:46 PDT 2008

On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:00:50 -0700, "John Monahan" <monahan@vitasoft.org>
wrote:

>Thanks Nigel, that was a good suggestion. However when I did that (and found
>where the folders were listed with regedit) it was not listed. There were 4
>folders listed which were correct (at MediaPlayer>Preferences
>>TrackFoldersDirectories).
>
>In fact when I made a global search for "MediaCenter1", the name of my C:
>drive, the offending folder was listed only once in all of the registry and
>that was not in the Media player preferences section. Is there some other
>location Media Player or WMC is storing a list of folders to display.

Sorry, I'm out of ideas.
--

Cheers

Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur
MCE MVP

Re: Removing an Unwanted/Strange Folder from a WMC Video Library listing by John

John
Sun Jun 29 15:01:14 PDT 2008


"Nigel Barker" <nigel@nigelbarker.com> wrote in message
news:r2if649li8psu2a04judj4q6kj2dgo8tun@4ax.com...
> On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:00:50 -0700, "John Monahan" <monahan@vitasoft.org>
> wrote:
>
>>Thanks Nigel, that was a good suggestion. However when I did that (and
>>found
>>where the folders were listed with regedit) it was not listed. There were
>>4
>>folders listed which were correct (at MediaPlayer>Preferences
>>>TrackFoldersDirectories).
>>
>>In fact when I made a global search for "MediaCenter1", the name of my C:
>>drive, the offending folder was listed only once in all of the registry
>>and
>>that was not in the Media player preferences section. Is there some other
>>location Media Player or WMC is storing a list of folders to display.
>
> Sorry, I'm out of ideas.
> --
>
> Cheers
>
> Nigel Barker
> Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur
> MCE MVP


Re: Removing an Unwanted/Strange Folder from a WMC Video Library listing by John

John
Sun Jun 29 15:02:10 PDT 2008

Can anybody else help now the "C:\programs" folder is appearing as well!


"Nigel Barker" <nigel@nigelbarker.com> wrote in message
news:r2if649li8psu2a04judj4q6kj2dgo8tun@4ax.com...
> On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:00:50 -0700, "John Monahan" <monahan@vitasoft.org>
> wrote:
>
>>Thanks Nigel, that was a good suggestion. However when I did that (and
>>found
>>where the folders were listed with regedit) it was not listed. There were
>>4
>>folders listed which were correct (at MediaPlayer>Preferences
>>>TrackFoldersDirectories).
>>
>>In fact when I made a global search for "MediaCenter1", the name of my C:
>>drive, the offending folder was listed only once in all of the registry
>>and
>>that was not in the Media player preferences section. Is there some other
>>location Media Player or WMC is storing a list of folders to display.
>
> Sorry, I'm out of ideas.
> --
>
> Cheers
>
> Nigel Barker
> Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur
> MCE MVP


Re: Removing an Unwanted/Strange Folder from a WMC Video Library l by Satyan

Satyan
Thu Jul 17 02:26:00 PDT 2008

Hi

I am also facing the same trouble but not with videos, but pictures .... any
solution for this ...

"John Monahan" wrote:

> Can anybody else help now the "C:\programs" folder is appearing as well!
>
>
> "Nigel Barker" <nigel@nigelbarker.com> wrote in message
> news:r2if649li8psu2a04judj4q6kj2dgo8tun@4ax.com...
> > On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:00:50 -0700, "John Monahan" <monahan@vitasoft.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> >>Thanks Nigel, that was a good suggestion. However when I did that (and
> >>found
> >>where the folders were listed with regedit) it was not listed. There were
> >>4
> >>folders listed which were correct (at MediaPlayer>Preferences
> >>>TrackFoldersDirectories).
> >>
> >>In fact when I made a global search for "MediaCenter1", the name of my C:
> >>drive, the offending folder was listed only once in all of the registry
> >>and
> >>that was not in the Media player preferences section. Is there some other
> >>location Media Player or WMC is storing a list of folders to display.
> >
> > Sorry, I'm out of ideas.
> > --
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Nigel Barker
> > Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur
> > MCE MVP
>
>