Media Player in Recent Documents?

[cfscare]

I've removed RealPlayer from my system and associated the mp3 extension with
Windows Media Player, but now those files don't appear in My Recent
Documents. How can I enable that? Thanks.

[Jake]

>-----Original Message-----
>I've removed RealPlayer from my system and associated

the mp3 extension with

>Windows Media Player, but now those files don't appear

in My Recent

>Documents. How can I enable that? Thanks.
>
>
>.
>They are no longer your "Recent Documents" and have been

deleted. The documents are still on your HD so don't
worry. Look in "Search" type the name of the document
and it will tell you where it is located. Once you find
it double click it (XP will ask you what program you want
to use to open it) and it will be back in your "Recent
Documents".

[cfscare]

> >They are no longer your "Recent Documents" and have been

> deleted. The documents are still on your HD so don't
> worry. Look in "Search" type the name of the document
> and it will tell you where it is located. Once you find
> it double click it (XP will ask you what program you want
> to use to open it) and it will be back in your "Recent
> Documents".

Thanks. Actually, I've already associated the MP3 extension with Windows
Media Player, so double-clicking an mp3 does open it in media player. But
it still doesn't show up in the recent documents list. I can't figure this
out ...

[David Candy]

Do the oppisite of this.

You can exclude files types from being added. So you'll have to go through the registry, with a calculator, and edit each filetype you want excluded one by one. This will likely take a fair few hours.

I'll give the instructions on how to do one type. Repeat a few hundred times.

Type regedit in start - run. Navigate to the file you want to exclude. For this we'll do .txt files. So navigate to
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.txt and read the value of the default value. In this case it's txtfile (most, but not all, use this
naming convention). So navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\txtfile
Look for a value named editflags or create a value called editflags (it's a dword type). If creating it just set it to 100000 (in hex). If it already exists then read the current value and put it into calculator (in scientific mode and in hex mode) and AND it with 100000. If it's already set to be excluded then it will give the answer of 100000, or if not set it will give an answer of 0 (as txtfile will). If not set to be excluded add (ie +) 100000 to the number that is already there in Editflags (again stay in hex) and put the new number into the editflags value.

txtfile has a value of 10000 (which means it's allowed to be opened over the internet) so you'll add 100000 to 10000 and get 110000.

I've included a table below listing all the values. (Note some of these can also be set with named text values for compatability reasons).

Flag Value Description
FTA_Exclude 0x00000001 Exclude the file class.
FTA_Show 0x00000002 Show file classes, such as folders, that aren't associated with a file name extension.
FTA_HasExtension 0x00000004 The file class has a file name extension.
FTA_NoEdit 0x00000008 The registry entries associated with this file class cannot be edited. New entries cannot be added and existing entries cannot be modified or deleted.
FTA_NoRemove 0x00000010 The registry entries associated with this file class cannot be deleted.
FTA_NoNewVerb 0x00000020 No new verbs can be added to the file class.
FTA_NoEditVerb 0x00000040 Canonical verbs such as open and print cannot be modified or deleted.
FTA_NoRemoveVerb 0x00000080 Canonical verbs such as open and print cannot be deleted.
FTA_NoEditDesc 0x00000100 The description of the file class cannot be modified or deleted.
FTA_NoEditIcon 0x00000200 The icon assigned to the file class cannot be modified or deleted.
FTA_NoEditDflt 0x00000400 The default verb cannot be modified.
FTA_NoEditVerbCmd 0x00000800 The commands associated with verbs cannot be modified.
FTA_NoEditVerbExe 0x00001000 Verbs cannot be modified or deleted.
FTA_NoDDE 0x00002000 The DDE-related entries cannot be modified or deleted.
FTA_NoEditMIME 0x00008000 The content-type and default-extension entries cannot be modified or deleted.
FTA_OpenIsSafe 0x00010000 The file class's open verb can be safely invoked for downloaded files.
FTA_AlwaysUnsafe 0x00020000 Do not allow the "Never ask me" check box to be enabled. The user can override this attribute through the File Type dialog box.
FTA_AlwaysShowExt 0x00040000 Always show the file class's file name extension, even if the user has selected the "Hide Extensions" option.
FTA_NoRecentDocs 0x00100000 Don't add members of this file class to the Recent Documents folder



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"cfscare" <gregross6@unspam.hotmail.com> wrote in message news:nIYNa.238749$jp.6423132@twister.southeast.rr. com...

> > >They are no longer your "Recent Documents" and have been

> > deleted. The documents are still on your HD so don't
> > worry. Look in "Search" type the name of the document
> > and it will tell you where it is located. Once you find
> > it double click it (XP will ask you what program you want
> > to use to open it) and it will be back in your "Recent
> > Documents".

>
> Thanks. Actually, I've already associated the MP3 extension with Windows
> Media Player, so double-clicking an mp3 does open it in media player. But
> it still doesn't show up in the recent documents list. I can't figure this
> out ...
>
>

[David Candy]

Those instructions is how to hide. Presumably if you reverse the steps it will show.

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"cfscare" <gregross6@unspam.hotmail.com> wrote in message news:sycOa.180549$nr.8268205@twister.southeast.rr. com...

> >Do the oppisite of this.
> >
> >You can exclude files types from being added. So you'll have to go through

> the registry, with a calculator, and edit each

> >filetype you want excluded one by one. This will likely take a fair few

> hours.
>
> I don't understand why ... ? I don't want to exclude any filetypes. I just
> want mp3 documents to appear on the recent documents list, which stopped
> happening after I removed RealPlayer. Mp3s are now associated with Windows
> Media Player, they just don't show up on the list.
>
> Are you saying that excluding all other filetypes will cause mp3s to appear
> on the list somehow?
>
>

[Unregistered]

I don't seem to be able to SAVE or SAVE AS any file I'm playing either on VLC or Win Media Player. Is there some fear in the software makers about save? That is one if the the most useful part of any software. Yet these "people" whomever they may be have hidden or removed the SAVE and the SAVE AS from the recent versions of the media players. Maybe I've missed seeing them but I doubt it.
I will admit seeing SAVE in the Win Media Player but it is usually GRAYED OUT and does not function 99% of the time. Very helpful people, very helpful. Thank you do much. I'd love to find out I'm wrong.
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