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How do you change the default directories that Media

Center looks for music in? I have a second HD with all my

music and media on it.


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Gosh, it seems like this same question gets asked almost on a daily basis.

May I invite you to search the newsgroups for the same question before

asking it again.



In any case, My Music is very easy as Media Center actually gets music

information from Media Player. Media Player can add references to files

from anywhere on your network and from multiple locations so you're all set.

It also derives its playlists from Media Player so you may edit them using

MP as well.



With regards to My Pictures and My Videos you can simply drop shortcuts to

folders from elsewhere into them and Media Player will see them.





"seeonlyone" <seeonlyone@msn.com>wrote in message



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Another approach is to change the default folder locations to another area

using TweakUI for Windows XP

(www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp)" >www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp) under My

Computer/Special Folders. We have found this to be useful when configuring

multiple MCE machines using different shared locations for videos, pictures,

and music by simply pointing them to mapped drives (we use M: for Music, P:

for Pictures, and V: for Videos), which are shares on a content server (or

you can do it as shares on each machine to distribute the disk utilization

if you are not using a server). Although it is not a biggie, it also

eliminates the need to have to click an extra time to go into the shortcut

folder. Since My Music seems to be less forgiving from within MCE, this

method tends to be a little more reliable and a little less work for the

user. As a side note, TweakUI also makes it easy to have the machine log in

automatically as the MCE user for those machines dedicated to serving up the

MCE UI (under Login/Autologin).



Regards,



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Derek R. Flickinger

Interactive Homes, Inc.



"Christopher" <nospam@nospam.com>wrote in message



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