WMP Sharing not functional

jostth · 28 Jan 2010

Unsure of exactly what is causing this issue, but here it is.

Only a few days ago I had full media sharing functionality, but now I am completely unable to do make any use of it. I was using WMP to share my media to my 360 and other computers in the home, but for some reason it stopped working completely. I have discovered that the "share my media" under the media streaming options in the network and sharing center is grayed out and I cannot select it, whereas before I remember specifically selecting this option. After searching for a while I have also discovered that this may be caused by the "WMP network sharing service" being disabled, however after considerable time spent searching I have determined that this service either no longer exists on my machine or was removed somehow.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, I cannot seem to locate any solution for this issue elsewhere.

acurasd · 28 Jan 2010

Make sure that this is ENABLED.....

jostth · 28 Jan 2010

I thank you for the reply, but it appears that the service in question (Media player network sharing) is completely absent from my machine. I am unsure of how this could have occurred, but I am more interested in restoring it if possible.

chev65 · 28 Jan 2010

In that case open the command prompt by typing cmd into the start/search, right click on the small dos icon above and select "run as admin" then type sfc/scannow at the blinking cursor then hit enter. Let the scan complete which will take some time. That should fix any file delation problems you might have had and hopefully get WMP sharing working again.

You might also want to check in msconfig and make sure the process is checked off and running. At the start/search window type "msconfig" then enter. Make sure the process is running like in the picture.

jostth · 28 Jan 2010

yes I have checked MSconfig, but couldn't find the service.

I will try your suggested fix now, and thank you for the reply.

jostth · 28 Jan 2010

I appear to be encountering an error when the "verification stage" reaches 58%

Code:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\system32>sfc/scannow

Beginning system scan.  This process will take some time.

Beginning verification phase of system scan.
Verification 58% complete.

Windows Resource Protection could not perform the requested operation.

C:\Windows\system32>sfc/scannow

Beginning system scan.  This process will take some time.

Beginning verification phase of system scan.
Verification 58% complete.

Windows Resource Protection could not perform the requested operation.

C:\Windows\system32>

I take it this is not supposed to occur?

chev65 · 28 Jan 2010

Nope that's bad. About all I can think of is to perform either a repair install from the Windows CD or a system restore to an earlier point in time.

I would go with the system restore option first.

System Restore

Repair Install

jostth · 28 Jan 2010

I am trying to avoid that if possible, but it looks as if I may have to make use of the startup repair regardless.

Thank you anyways for the assistance.

chev65 · 28 Jan 2010

I would avoid it also but at this point the recovery options seem to be all thats left. Somehow your system files got messed up but I'm not sure how. Start up repair might fix the problem also but generally that one is used to fix problems with Windows starting.

jostth · 28 Jan 2010

The only recovery images I have are from a couple of days back, which is after the problem seemed to appear. I'll browse around and try and determine the best method of recovering my core windows files, and see what I can find.