Windows Media Player 11 is constantly monitoring several folders in the My Documents folder structure for media changes. If you do not use WMP 11 as your main media player you might be wasting resources caused by this monitoring. By default the My Music, My Pictures and My Videos folders are monitored and new files are automatically added to the Windows Media Player 11 library.
Folder Monitoring can be disabled for most folders listed in the section of Windows Media Player. To remove folder monitoring right-click the Windows Media Player title bar and select Tools > Options from the menu. Click on the Library tab and there on the Monitor Folders button.
The folders monitored are either My Personal Folders or My folders and those that i can access. Only one of those is active and needs to be removed and ignored. The default folders cannot be removed at all and the Rip Folder can not be removed or ignored at all.
The default folders shown which are all shown as Automatically Added can be changed to Ignore which means that those folders will not be monitored anymore. Change all folders possible to Ignore and click on OK to make the changes.
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hey i have a solution to prevent adding files in WMP in the advance option under add to library where Martin shows put all folders to ignore, the only one that cant be ignored is the rip folder..then add the folder where you have all your music stored,, it would say manually added. then on the skipped files smaller than…just leave it as the default sizes and no more files to be added automatically…hope it can work