Turn off online stores

I do not use those stores , is there a way to turn off the ever growing list
and those All services /Music/radio/Video buttons

I prefer empty space than those stores so that it at least doesnt query my
ever slow internet evey time my mouse goes over there?

Any registr hacks. or file edits?

I still listen to web content like movie trailers, but in IE , so I dont
want to disable the WMP from accesing internet. , its just the music stores
and the long list.

I'm not aware of any - this is a fairly basic part of the player. Those
stores help provide the metadata backbone for the player nowadays. If you
don't want the player to connect online, "Work Offline" is I believe the
official answer. =\

-Zach
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See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
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"ceohotmail" <> wrote in message
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>I do not use those stores , is there a way to turn off the ever growing
>list
> and those All services /Music/radio/Video buttons
>
> I prefer empty space than those stores so that it at least doesnt query my
> ever slow internet evey time my mouse goes over there?
>
> Any registr hacks. or file edits?
>
> I still listen to web content like movie trailers, but in IE , so I dont
> want to disable the WMP from accesing internet. , its just the music
> stores
> and the long list.

zachd [MSFT] wrote:
> I'm not aware of any - this is a fairly basic part of the player. Those
> stores help provide the metadata backbone for the player nowadays. If you
> don't want the player to connect online, "Work Offline" is I believe the
> official answer. =\
>
> -Zach


For English-speakers, changing the user locale to something like
English(Belize) - ie a country without an onlin store presence - works
but may have side-effects elsewhere in the system.