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<blockquote data-quote="el Filou" data-source="post: 1307099" data-attributes="member: 78516">Many many years ago, I opened a bug report after I got that same message but I never got a reply. The reason was I had unchecked the Windows Media Player item in Windows 10 Control Panel &gt; Program and Features &gt; Turn Windows features on or off as I didn't need it, without thinking that it was needed by MediaPortal. I kept the &quot;Media Features&quot; parent box checked.Afterwards, when I tried to update MP, the installer complained.When you uninstall the integrated Windows Media Player in Windows 10, the box disappears, so I got the latest 32-bit Windows Media Player source from Microsoft, renamed its exe to the file the MP installer was expecting, and the installer ran it and it gave an error but despite that MP installer then continued. MP still worked perfectly, proving you actually don't need Windows Media Player itself, just its components integrated into Windows.From then on, each time I update I'm forced to do that procedure, as the check in the installer was never corrected.Edit: here is my post from 2019 on MP 1.21: <a href="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/is-windows-media-player-still-needed-on-windows-10.138848/" target="_blank">Is Windows Media Player still needed on Windows 10 ?</a>Contrary to what I misremembered, I had posted in General talk, not Bug reports. Probably that's why it never got taken into account.Edit: someone who got the same problem last year with 1.38: <a href="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/installation-problems-in-a-total-world-of-pain.141554/post-1304612" target="_blank">1.38 - Installation problems.....in a total world of pain!!</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="el Filou, post: 1307099, member: 78516"] Many many years ago, I opened a bug report after I got that same message but I never got a reply. The reason was I had unchecked the Windows Media Player item in Windows 10 Control Panel > Program and Features > Turn Windows features on or off as I didn't need it, without thinking that it was needed by MediaPortal. I kept the "Media Features" parent box checked. Afterwards, when I tried to update MP, the installer complained. When you uninstall the integrated Windows Media Player in Windows 10, the box disappears, so I got the latest 32-bit Windows Media Player source from Microsoft, renamed its exe to the file the MP installer was expecting, and the installer ran it and it gave an error but despite that MP installer then continued. MP still worked perfectly, proving you actually don't need Windows Media Player itself, just its components integrated into Windows. From then on, each time I update I'm forced to do that procedure, as the check in the installer was never corrected. Edit: here is my post from 2019 on MP 1.21: [URL="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/is-windows-media-player-still-needed-on-windows-10.138848/"]Is Windows Media Player still needed on Windows 10 ?[/URL] Contrary to what I misremembered, I had posted in General talk, not Bug reports. Probably that's why it never got taken into account. Edit: someone who got the same problem last year with 1.38: [URL='https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/installation-problems-in-a-total-world-of-pain.141554/post-1304612']1.38 - Installation problems.....in a total world of pain!![/URL] [/QUOTE]

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