Vista Tutorial - Preventing Sync Partnerships in WMP11

Hi, I'm experiencing a lot of frustration with Media Player 11 (in 64 bit
vista ultimate if there's any significant difference between 32 & 64) trying
to synchronise to practically everything I plug into my laptop. I have
several small flash memory cards leftover from buying stuff like cameras &
PDAs that I use for storing & transferring documents and other small files.
The problem I have is that EVERY time I put the card into either the USB
reader or my laptop's internal reader (though thats probably just internal
USB as well) whist Media Player 11 is running, it tries to establish a synch
partnership.

Is there any way at all to prevent Media Player trying to create
partnerships? I'll be happy even if it disables the entire synch service, I'm
never ever going to use it since I'm a crotchetty old curmudgeon (Hey you
kids, get off the lawn!) who likes doing all my file transfers manually. I've
hunted through the WMP options, rooted about in the registry and scanned
google but haven't found anything yet.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Adrian

"Aliasalpha" <Aliasalpha@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:68E79995-4AA1-476A-BE83-760593DA7EA0@microsoft.com...
> Hi, I'm experiencing a lot of frustration with Media Player 11 (in 64 bit
> vista ultimate if there's any significant difference between 32 & 64)
> trying
> to synchronise to practically everything I plug into my laptop. I have
> several small flash memory cards leftover from buying stuff like cameras &
> PDAs that I use for storing & transferring documents and other small
> files.
> The problem I have is that EVERY time I put the card into either the USB
> reader or my laptop's internal reader (though thats probably just internal
> USB as well) whist Media Player 11 is running, it tries to establish a
> synch
> partnership.
>
> Is there any way at all to prevent Media Player trying to create
> partnerships? I'll be happy even if it disables the entire synch service,
> I'm
> never ever going to use it since I'm a crotchetty old curmudgeon (Hey you
> kids, get off the lawn!) who likes doing all my file transfers manually.
> I've
> hunted through the WMP options, rooted about in the registry and scanned
> google but haven't found anything yet.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> Adrian
>
From one old curmudgeon to another, when I stick a card in mine it depends
what is on the card, If its photos then Picasa opens to transfer because
that is my default program. If your files are text then no transfer
normally takes place and normally windows pops up and asks you what program
you want to use. By what you say they are not music or video clips so I do
not know why Media player opens?
--
Ian

With patience there is always a way.

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Oh no, it's not loading media player when I put the card in, that'd just be
an autoplay issue. It's just that when media player is already running and I
plug in a PDA/SDcard in it tries to sync and thats the thing I'm trying to
stop.

"Ian Betts" wrote:

>
>
> "Aliasalpha" <Aliasalpha@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:68E79995-4AA1-476A-BE83-760593DA7EA0@microsoft.com...
> > Hi, I'm experiencing a lot of frustration with Media Player 11 (in 64 bit
> > vista ultimate if there's any significant difference between 32 & 64)
> > trying
> > to synchronise to practically everything I plug into my laptop. I have
> > several small flash memory cards leftover from buying stuff like cameras &
> > PDAs that I use for storing & transferring documents and other small
> > files.
> > The problem I have is that EVERY time I put the card into either the USB
> > reader or my laptop's internal reader (though thats probably just internal
> > USB as well) whist Media Player 11 is running, it tries to establish a
> > synch
> > partnership.
> >
> > Is there any way at all to prevent Media Player trying to create
> > partnerships? I'll be happy even if it disables the entire synch service,
> > I'm
> > never ever going to use it since I'm a crotchetty old curmudgeon (Hey you
> > kids, get off the lawn!) who likes doing all my file transfers manually.
> > I've
> > hunted through the WMP options, rooted about in the registry and scanned
> > google but haven't found anything yet.
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> >
> > Adrian
> >
> From one old curmudgeon to another, when I stick a card in mine it depends
> what is on the card, If its photos then Picasa opens to transfer because
> that is my default program. If your files are text then no transfer
> normally takes place and normally windows pops up and asks you what program
> you want to use. By what you say they are not music or video clips so I do
> not know why Media player opens?
> --
> Ian
>
> With patience there is always a way.
>
> Please Reply to Newsgroup so all can read.
> Requests for assistance by email can not and will be deleted.
>
>

"Aliasalpha" <Aliasalpha@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9B6499D1-3A55-45BF-B34F-B4B6F57570B0@microsoft.com...
> Oh no, it's not loading media player when I put the card in, that'd just
> be
> an autoplay issue. It's just that when media player is already running and
> I
> plug in a PDA/SDcard in it tries to sync and thats the thing I'm trying to
> stop.


My logic says stop the media player before you plug it in but perhaps that
is to simple and not what you want again.