Vista Tutorial - Sync Center without using Media Player

Whenever I try to set up a sync partnership by using Sync Center with my USB
memory pen, it always try to use Windows Media Player. I don't want to sync
music and videos, which is what it is trying to do. I want to sync documents
and other files, but it is not letting me do that because it opens Media
Player, and Media Payer cannot sync documents. Is there any way I can use
Sync Center without using Windows Media Player?

I am having the same problem, I have tried the association recommended but
that doesn't help. It seems silly to have to have a 3rd party software when
this is included in Vista but it seems it maybe like all the other included
offerings, they meet you part of the way but not enough to do you any good so
you end up getting something else to do the job leaving the Windows one just
taking up dead space on your hard drive. It may also be that in the Basic and
Premium version of Vista they only think you use the computer for multimedia
and not anything else like with the fax program we evidently don't need and
now have to scramble for the third party option for that too.

I have been manually deleting the files off the pen and copying them onto it
fresh because there is some sort of merge thing that Vista does that doesn't
work well either, this would be fine but for some reason my USB transfer rate
is horrible slow so 42 meg transfer takes 15-20 mins.

Shimerly

"Carl_S" wrote:

> Whenever I try to set up a sync partnership by using Sync Center with my USB
> memory pen, it always try to use Windows Media Player. I don't want to sync
> music and videos, which is what it is trying to do. I want to sync documents
> and other files, but it is not letting me do that because it opens Media
> Player, and Media Payer cannot sync documents. Is there any way I can use
> Sync Center without using Windows Media Player?

I found it quite silly as well to use 3rd party software instead of one
already installed that should do its job properly. Then again, that's what
I'm using now - 3rd party software. However it's really good, fully
compatible with vista and allows you to make lots of decisions and analysing
before you sync. It's free as well. It's called Allway Sync, and does what it
says on the tin. Last time I used it, it's copied files ranging from all
types of formats into the right place onto my memory card, at over 350MBs in
total in just under five minutes.

It may be 3rd party, but it'll take a lot for Microsoft's Sync Center to
even match it.

"Shimerly" wrote:

> I am having the same problem, I have tried the association recommended but
> that doesn't help. It seems silly to have to have a 3rd party software when
> this is included in Vista but it seems it maybe like all the other included
> offerings, they meet you part of the way but not enough to do you any good so
> you end up getting something else to do the job leaving the Windows one just
> taking up dead space on your hard drive. It may also be that in the Basic and
> Premium version of Vista they only think you use the computer for multimedia
> and not anything else like with the fax program we evidently don't need and
> now have to scramble for the third party option for that too.
>
> I have been manually deleting the files off the pen and copying them onto it
> fresh because there is some sort of merge thing that Vista does that doesn't
> work well either, this would be fine but for some reason my USB transfer rate
> is horrible slow so 42 meg transfer takes 15-20 mins.
>
> Shimerly
>
> "Carl_S" wrote:
>
> > Whenever I try to set up a sync partnership by using Sync Center with my USB
> > memory pen, it always try to use Windows Media Player. I don't want to sync
> > music and videos, which is what it is trying to do. I want to sync documents
> > and other files, but it is not letting me do that because it opens Media
> > Player, and Media Payer cannot sync documents. Is there any way I can use
> > Sync Center without using Windows Media Player?