Watched folder settings & smart views

[Guest]

I opened one of the many icons at the bottom right of the screen on my new
computer with Windows Vista Home Premium loaded. This opened a window
listing all the folders on my system, with a title of "Watched Folder
Settings". It says I can start or stop Folder Watching here, and that the
service watches for changes to the selected folders and keeps Smart Views
up-to-date. There is no "help" for this, and if I search
support.microsoft.com for "watched folders", "folder watching", or "smart
views", I get no results.

Can someone tell me the purpose of this, or is it just a resource-hogging
feature that is not needed?

Thanks for any help!

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Dorothy

This does not sound like any Microsoft Vista product? It probably was
installed by the computer maker. Check with them.

 

[Guest]

Thanks - once you pointed that out, I looked further in a Google search, and
found it is related to Roxio media manager.

Dorothy

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Dorothy

Glad this helped you sort the problem.

 

[Guest]

Ronnie: Don't know if you get this message but Thank You times a million!!!