Windows Help on How to Clear Items From Windows Media Player History

Windows Media Player, as you already know, is a Microsoft program that allows you to listen, play and also add music to your music collection. Now, with all its applications and features, sometimes its history gets crowded with already used items. So, if you wish to clear your Windows Media Player history of all the old items, you can do so with Windows help.

Windows help also points out that you can either clear your history, as a whole or just a selected few, according to your preference.

Clearing Windows Media Player history with Windows help

To start with the Windows help process to clear your Windows Media Player history, you first need to launch the Windows Media Player on your computer.

Once you have the application up and running, you can proceed with the Windows help steps, depending on if you’d like to delete the whole history or just a selected few.

Windows Media Player to clear history

1. Clearing the Whole Windows Media Player history with Windows help

You can start with Windows help in clearing the whole history by first right clicking on the application’s toolbar to bring up its options.

After which, select the same from under the “Tools” section.

Now, hit on the “Privacy” tab from its newly displayed pop-up window to get to the “Clear History” option.

This will automatically remove all available items in the “Recently Played” section of the “File” menu.

You can finally hit on “Ok” once the clearing process is done.

 2. Windows help to clear selected items in Windows Media Player history

In case you wish to only remove a few selected items from the player’s history, start by selecting the same files from the “Library” section.

After which, simply hit on “Delete” to remove the selected items and then “Ok”.

So, using either of these techniques from the Windows help team, you can easily manage Windows Media Player and its history.

Enable the Aero Effect on Vista with Windows help

Now the Aero effect, if you are unaware, is an upgraded appearance update for your Windows Vista Operating System. Windows help explains that this provides your system with a unique look, allowing your windows and other screen elements to appear transparent as if staring through a glass.

Now if this isn’t an effect you enjoy having or wish to adjust the settings of your operating system, Windows Vista along with Windows help makes it easy for you to customize the Graphical User Interface (GUI). Meaning, you can then enable or disable the Aero Effect with ease according to your preference. Windows help shows you how.

Windows help to Enable or Disable Aero Effect in Vista

You can start with this Windows help process to either enable or disable the Aero Effect in your Vista operating system by first closing all the open programs, if any, on your computer.

Once you have your computer free of programs and applications, clicking on an empty space on your desktop screen to bring up the desktop’s context menu. Now, make sure that you don’t click on any existing icon or file while doing so.

Aero Effect on Vista

After which, you should continue with the Windows help steps by clicking on “Properties” to select the “Windows Color and Appearance” option.

You can then select any one color scheme you wish to use for your PC’s appearance. For the default, as Windows help points out, will already have been set to clear glass at that time.

Next up, proceed with the Windows help steps by clicking on the box marked as “Enable Transparency” to enable or disable the Aero Effect (note that if there is already a check mark in the box, the transparency has been enabled).

Now using the slider marked “Transparency”, adjust its level by increasing or decreasing it according to your choice.

Finally, hit on “Ok” in case you want to save the changes or “Cancel” to start anew with the Windows help steps to configure more changes.