Stop media updating

DustSailor said:

oh that is strange. have you tried going into default programs > Change autoplay settings and made everything that deals with your situation to "ask you every time"? I think it shouldn't just force things, at least I've not heard it doing so. Any time I've had music in my music folder, I haven't noticed any changes. Guess I'm not real sure whats going on in your system

One of the first things I did (after installing Windows 7) was to disable ALL of the Auto-play options I could find.

All of the WMP12 players I have tried on Windows 7 (7048, 7077, 7100 and 7600) have behaved the same way.
I changed hardware (in July) but there hasn't been any change in WMP.
Maybe it doesn't like AMD CPUs.

I suppose I could just be unlucky and happened to have had glitches during ALL of my installs.

I find it strange that Windows 7 is so good and WMP 12 is so bad.

try this, don't know if it will work though, worth a shot (Found it here: Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service - Process and Service wiki):
Go into services and scroll down to Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service and disable it by right clicking, going to properties, and under startup type, clicking the scroll-down menu to click disabled. Lets see if this helps at all

DustSailor said:

try this, don't know if it will work though, worth a shot (Found it here: Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service - Process and Service wiki):
Go into services and scroll down to Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service and disable it by right clicking, going to properties, and under startup type, clicking the scroll-down menu to click disabled. Lets see if this helps at all

One of the other things I did (after installing Windows 7) was to disable ALL of the Services that I don't use (including Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service).
Excess/Unused Services are a nuisance and a security risk.

Thanks for your suggestions though. :)

J3J4iiilso said:

I've got a similar problem. My Media Player keeps grabbing sound files from every program I have and putting them into my Library. No way of stopping it short of removing Media Player 12.

This thread is a bit older, but there should have been an option when you set up your windows media player (when you first entered the program after an install/after you bought the computer) that asked if you want to custom-setup your media or if you just want standard. you might have just clicked standard, so that you weren't able to deselect all media content that you did not want to pull from other areas of your computer