Another Activesync problem but with WMP 11 - Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General

Hi,
I've had a search on the forums and cannot find an answer to my question so....
Activesync works fine emails, contacts etc all sync perfectly. My problem is when i try to sync my playlist on WMP11 to my device after about 5-10 secs of syncing the computer freezes and then restarts with no warning whatsoever
Could it be that the playlist is too long? I still have 2.3Gb of space left on my internal storage and not all the memory taken up is music.
Any help would be appreciated. I've tried an uninstall of Activesync and re-downloaded and installation with no change to my problem.
PC is WIndows XP sp3 and Activesync 4.5, Windows media player 11
Many thanks,
Sjrh

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Empgamer said:
regardless of what I try I cannot get WMP on the PC to see the storage card??
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Hello!!
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anoano said:
I think it should solve it if you disable media sharing in the PC Windows Media Player options.
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media sharing is disabled on mine and the pop up still appears.
anoano said:
I think it should solve it if you disable media sharing in the PC Windows Media Player options.
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Think it is one more of those Services that Microsoft activates by default and we have to turn off so our computers can run Vista.
Thanks for this info. I stumble upon it and it does indeed help.
Cheers,
NTD
lohpsch said:
I have disabled the Portable Device Enumerator Service and it seems that this autosync (and WMP remaining "alive" in the background) has now ended.
No secondary effects detected.
Think it is one more of those Services that Microsoft activates by default and we have to turn off so our computers can run Vista.
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