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Windows Media Player Win10n - wont install
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I'm running Win10n 64 bit, Home built PC running 16g Ram etc.
My machine updated to windows 10 without me saying a word a while back.. And prior to having a forced lobotomy and upgrading to Win 10 - I had Media Player and all was happy in the world and everything worked..
I am now missing Windows Media Player... I also cant install it. I need it for a Garmin Mapping program I use.
Thinking that the 500,000,000,000 hits on google from poor suffering people like myself with this issue, they all say this fixes it, I though yea this is too easy eh...
So I've gone and installed
"The Media Feature Pack for N and KN versions of Windows 10 will install Media Player and related technologies on a computer running Windows 10 N or Windows 10 KN editions.
For further information, please see http://support.microsoft.com and query the Knowledge Base for the article number KB3010081."
https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/down....aspx?id=48231
But after the install which should installed Windows Media Player etc - it doesn't.
It appears to work fine - it appears to stall. But not everything installs.
Shutdown... wait few mins, reboot... and it will all work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FAIL..............
When I go to the C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Media Player folder, and compare with my other machine on the desk here, there are no files in the Windows Media Player root directory.
If I try and just copy from 1 machine to the other, then run either the setup_wm.exe or wmplayer.exe says this isn't installed, and sends me to a dead URL.. I've been going in circles for 3 hours now...
I want to smash who ever thought up the awesome improvements in windows 10 (which for the average user like myself are nil...) with a hammer.
Anyone got any ideas how I can fix this? I'd rather not reinstall Win7 as I have lots installed on this machine, and its just bulltish that you should need to... If I have to I will.. No fan of this Windows 10 garbage.