re: How to Turn Off media Sync Entirely in Windows Media Player
Here's a simple work-around that works for me:
- Right-click task bar and open task manager.
- Click Applications tab.
- Insert flash drive or mp3 player.
- When WMP opens Sync and accesses the portable device, even though the WM player itself doesn't open, it shows up in the applications tab. Simply highlight it and click "end task." WMP immediately stops accessing the device.
I burned out two 4GB flash drives before I found this "solution"; none since. I'm not certain that Sync had anything to do with this, but every time I inserted a drive into the computer, it would run for three or four minutes. This has to have some effect on the life of a flash drive. VLC is a great alternate player. It has a lot of functions and tools that WMP doesn't have. Unfortunately, it's a little buggy in Vista. Nothing major, but sometimes it freezes up when you overuse the slow-play and fast-play functions and you have to shut it down and restart it. Works great in XP though.
Last edited by Raj; 10-11-2012 at 01:14 PM.
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I hate Vista.
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