How to prevent re-collecting information regarding playlists and displaying it to others in Windows Media Player.
Windows Media player maintains a history of files that have already been played. This way other PC users can copy my playlists. How can I prevent it?
The process is quite simple:
• To prevent the Media Player from re-collecting information regarding playlists and displaying it to others who have access to the same PC, follow the steps mentioned below.
• Go to ‘Tools|Options’ in Media Player and switch to the ‘Privacy’ tab than click on ‘Clear History’.
• Next, deactivate the option ‘Save file and URL history in the player’ and confirm by clicking on ‘Apply’ and ‘OK’.
This prevents creation of previously played file/URL lists in future within Media Player. Now, what remains is the list saved in the Windows start menu Documents section.
• Clear that by right- clicking on the ‘Start’ button and selecting the context option ‘Properties’.
• Now click the ‘Start menu radio buttion’ and then on the ‘Customize’ option. In the next dialog window, click on ‘Advanced’ and then on the ‘Clear List’ option under ‘Recent documents’.
• You may also choose to deactivate the option ‘List my most recently opened documents’ and confirm with ‘OK’. This option will set the system to not list your recently opened files or documents.
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