#WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER 11 WINDOWS 10#
This problem I am afraid has been going on since the beginning of the early stages of Microsoft Windows 10 and the ONLY answer seems to be is to download and use the free VLC. Why is it when Microsoft brings out, yet another, new super duper OS, it isn’t better than earlier operating systems. Surely there must be an alternative media player, which unhappy windows 10 users can download, for a small price, even better FREE.Īn alternative media player, with all of the main features windows 10 users are asking for, similar to those of windows media player 11. Its no wonder people are ditching Microsoft and going to apple. This seems to be caused by stopping the Windows Media Connect Service.Techie007L wrote - “Is there a particular problem you have with Windows Media Player version 12?” …. UPDATE: If you find after following these steps that the Remote Access web page is throing an ASP.NET error (as I did), simply reboot WHS. Click OK, OK, and close Windows Media Player.Tick the "Share my media to:" box and configure the settings how you want them by either clicking the Settings button to setup default settings for all devices, or click Configure for each detected client and set each client up manually.Click OK and wait for files to be added to the library.This worked for me, and given that I'm only reading data using this method and not writing, I don't see the harm - if someone knows differently please tell me! Why can't I play files that are shared by one computer but located on different computer?"). NOTE: Microsoft recommend you always use the \\servername\sharename method to access files on the shares, but WMP11 will not share files located on a UNC path without a lot of fiddling around (see "Q. Add D:\shares\Music (or wherever your music is) to the list.Click the down arrow on the Library tab and click More Options.Set Startup type to Disabled (if not already).Click Stop (if it is not already stopped).
From the WHS admin desktop, right-click the wmfdist11.exe file and click properties.(this step was adapted from instructions I was following elsewhere - I'm not certain of the separate folders requirement, but I did it anyway) Extract the wmfdist11.exe and wmp11.exe and place them in separate folders on the C: drive of your WHS (not on a share).Open this file in an extraction program such as WinZip or 7-Zip (I used 7-Zip).The following is an excerpt from a post on the Microsoft Windows Home Server Forums detailing a hack to enable Windows Media Player 11 to be installed.
Unfortunately, some of the newer devices (including Sony's Playstation 3) do not function with Windows Media Connect 2.0, and require Windows Media Player 11 to run and this is not available or supported on Windows 2003 (which Windows Home Server is based on). Windows Home Server ships with Windows Media Connect 2.0 installed enabling many uPnP devices to access digital media on your server.