Rename the Media Player folder instead. I've had the problem for weeks and
I
finally renamed the media player folder to media player. I restarted WMP11,
opened the monitor dialog box and the folders were then. I then went to
apply media changes and it scanned my folders and rebuilt my library
"jelzi" wrote:
> an easier solution is to delete the library.
> when you start wmp next time the lbirary will be created again and
> monitoring works now..
>
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> "jay bob" wrote:
>
> > I found a solution for anyone experiencing this problem. When you first
> > install vista you need to create 2 user accounts. After logging into
> > one
> > account for the first time open up wmp11 and try to compile a library.
> > It
> > won't be able to. Now log into the second account and try to compile a
> > library and it will work for the second account. Simply make the second
> > account an admin account and don't use the first account. That's the
> > only
> > solution I've been able to find and it's worked well for two vista
> > installs.
> > Good luck.
> >
> > "jelzi" wrote:
> >
> > > i´ve the same problem.
> > > wmp11 works very fine with windows xp. but not on vista.
> > >
> > > "jay bob" wrote:
> > >
> > > > For some strange reason windows media player running in vista
> > > > refuses to
> > > > detect any media within my user folders (music, video, pictures).
> > > > All of
> > > > those folders are specifically marked as monitored folders, but
> > > > there is no
> > > > media in my library. I backed up all this media on a second
> > > > partition on my
> > > > hard drive and then simply copied it all in to the respective
> > > > folders. Any
> > > > ideas...?