Re: Vista Media Center and Videos on Network Drives

goelectric — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 07:42:35 -0000

This works on Windows Media Center running on XP and XBOX 360 too for videos, music and pictures :)

What to do (repeat for music and pictures with My Music and My Pictures folders):
1. Make shortcuts (right click, create shortcut) of the folders on your network shares containing your Videos - this is important - DON’T make shortcuts of mapped drives - make them of the folders on the Network Shares otherwise they won’t work.

2. Place the shortcuts of these folders into the “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\My Videos” folder.

Each shortcut properties (right-click, properties, shortcut tab) should look something like this (the inverted commas are needed only if your folder contains words with spaces like my example below):

Target: "\\server-name\share-name\folder"
Mine says: Target: "\\192.168.1.4\shared files\My Videos"

The result?

Without Adding Folders (I have no watched folders according to Media Center or the Xbox), these have now shown up on my Media Center PC and my Xbox 360 just how I want them to. It seems anything in the Public Videos folder shows up, whether you want them to or not.

It works for me, and I hope it works for you too.

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