Vista Media Center unwanted folders

After installing SP1 Media Center started listing the memory card reader
slots as 4 drives in both the Video and Pictures libraries. These were never
configured to be monitored in either MC or WMP and they weren't being listed
in Media Center before SP1 was installed.

Is there any way to remove these entries, and other root folders that
sometimes show up, from the folders list in the library?

William
Sun Mar 23 10:08:01 PDT 2008

I want to jump in on this one too. Same problem, and just to clarify, when
adding folders to watch, the "additional" folders and cardreaders are not
options to stop watching. Very annoying and it looks very messy having all
those folders. If it is a SP1 add-on perhaps it should be complied into one
folder - suggest is the "extra stuff we don't want" folder...lol

RalfG
Sat Mar 29 07:44:20 PDT 2008

This workaround apparently removes them, will try it shortly:

http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/thread/243618.aspx

"William" <William@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:EA379FAE-2B74-4A4B-8DED-4A7C71AB8CEB@microsoft.com...
>I want to jump in on this one too. Same problem, and just to clarify, when
> adding folders to watch, the "additional" folders and cardreaders are not
> options to stop watching. Very annoying and it looks very messy having all
> those folders. If it is a SP1 add-on perhaps it should be complied into
> one
> folder - suggest is the "extra stuff we don't want" folder...lol

RalfG
Sat Mar 29 07:48:53 PDT 2008

Yes, it works nicely.

"RalfG" <itsnotme@ladeda.deda> wrote in message
news:BCC1F1B5-5761-4F82-AE33-1983C174B75E@microsoft.com...
> This workaround apparently removes them, will try it shortly:
>
> http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/thread/243618.aspx
>
> "William" <William@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:EA379FAE-2B74-4A4B-8DED-4A7C71AB8CEB@microsoft.com...
>>I want to jump in on this one too. Same problem, and just to clarify, when
>> adding folders to watch, the "additional" folders and cardreaders are not
>> options to stop watching. Very annoying and it looks very messy having
>> all
>> those folders. If it is a SP1 add-on perhaps it should be complied into
>> one
>> folder - suggest is the "extra stuff we don't want" folder...lol
>

William
Sat Mar 29 15:12:00 PDT 2008

It worked for the media drives, but I still have other folders I cannot stop
watching. These include folders within my c:\user folder such as vidoes,
documents, and other randomly install 3rd party program folders. To
reiterate, they are not listed in the stop watch folder. Do you have this
problem too?

RalfG
Sun Mar 30 06:01:54 PDT 2008

Not those particular folders, but some root folders did show up that I got
rid of. In XP MCE my webcam threw some folders/shortcuts in there that
couldn't be removed and others had scanners do the same, but I'm not seeing
that in Vista. See if the following registry edit helps to remove some of
the unwanted folders:

Look for entries in this registry key like this;

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Media
Center\Settings\AutoScan]
"_arSeenVideoDrives"="E:/"

and change them to this;

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Media
Center\Settings\AutoScan]
"_arSeenVideoDrives"="<<NULL>>"

without the quotation marks. Should work for the Music and Image lines as
well.



"William" <William@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2533B4D0-104A-4BB0-9E9C-AC793BBA4C48@microsoft.com...
> It worked for the media drives, but I still have other folders I cannot
> stop
> watching. These include folders within my c:\user folder such as vidoes,
> documents, and other randomly install 3rd party program folders. To
> reiterate, they are not listed in the stop watch folder. Do you have this
> problem too?

William
Sun Mar 30 08:27:01 PDT 2008

I took a look at the registry is it looks like they were already set to
"<<NULL>>".

So yeah, still no fix :(

thanks though