Windows 10: Add or Remove Videos Library in Windows 10

How to: Add or Remove Videos Library in Windows 10

How to Add or Remove Videos Library in Windows 10


Information remove folders and drives to be included in a library as you like.

Windows 10 has the Saved Pictures, and Videos libraries by default.

The C:\Users\<user name>\Videos folder is included by default in the Videos library.

If you don't need or want the Videos library, then you can remove it from showing in Libraries.

This tutorial will show you how to add or remove the Videos library showing in Libraries for all users in Windows 10.

You must be signed in as an administrator to be able to add or remove the Videos library.

EXAMPLE: Videos library in Libraries






Here's How:

1. Do step 2 (add) or step 3 (remove) below for what you want.


2. To Add Videos library
NOTE: This is the default setting.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the .reg file below, and go to step 4 below.

Add_Videos_library.reg

Download

3. To Remove Videos library
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the .reg file below for your step 4 below.

32-bit_Remove_Videos_library.reg

Download

OR

64-bit_Remove_Videos_library.reg

Download

4. Save the .reg file to your desktop.

5. Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

6. When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

7. If File Explorer is currently open, then close and reopen it to apply.

8. If you like, you can delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.


That's it,
Shawn


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Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Map a network drive folder to my video library

To Include folders using Manage Library Tools, we suggest that you perform the steps below:

• In File Explorer, select or open a library (ex: Videos) you want to include a folder or drive to.
• Click on the Library Tools Manage tab, and click on the Manage library button in the ribbon.
• Click on the Add button
• Browse to and select a folder or drive that you want to include in this library, and click on the Include folder button.
• When finished, click/tap on OK.

Keep us updated with the result.

 

How to delete videos from Shared library of Windows Media Player?

Hi,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

By default, Windows Media Player will share all the media that is in the library folders from the File Explorer. That is why you are seeing all the videos on the Roku TV.

To remove the videos from shared library we have a workaround, we have tried the workaround on our computers and it works, you can follow the steps and check if that helps for you. Follow the steps mentioned below:

• Press Windows key + E to open File Explorer.
  
• Click on Videos Library.
  
• Create a new folder and add the videos that you want to hide from the Share library.
  
• Right click on the folder, click on Give access to and select
  Remove access.
  
• Now, right click on the folder and click on
  Properties.
  
• Click on the Security tab and click on
  Advanced.
  
• Click on Disable Inheritance and select
  Convert Inherited permissions in to explicit permissions.
  
• Click on Apply and OK.
  
• Now, click on Edit.
  
• Click on WMPNetworkSvc and click on
  Remove.
  
• Click on Apply and OK.
  

Note: removing permissions will hide the videos from the shared library for the particular folder. If you want any video to unhide from shared library you can move the video out of the folder.

If the above workaround didn’t help, I would encourage you to provide your valuable feedback in Feedback hub so that our development team can review your suggestions. To provide your feedback, please refer to the article
Send feedback to Microsoft with the Feedback
Hub app.

Hope it helps.

Nikhar Khare

Microsoft Community - Moderator

 

Delete a Library in Windows 10

Hi,

Thank you for being part of Windows 10.

I appreciate you for providing details about the issue and we are happy to help you.

I would suggest you to restore the Libraries and then try deleting the Library folder.

Follow the below steps.

• Press Windows + E keys from the Keyboard to open the
  File Explorer.
• Locate Libraries from the left pane.
• Right click on Libraries and select Restore default libraries option from the list.

Kindly let us know if you need any further assistance with Windows. We are happy to assist you.

Thank you.

 

Remove Music, Pictures, Videos folders from Documents Library?

I'm using Windows 10 and have no use for the Music, Pictures, and Videos folders that appear in the Documents library. I want to remove them, or at the very least hide them from the folder listing. It's very annoying that Windows doesn't want to let you
do that.

To be clear, I'm not talking about removing them from the explorer left side panel. I want to stop them from showing up in the Documents list. Does anyone know a simple way to do this? Thanks.