I'm someone who wants to keep the mediacenter PC clean and thus have deactivated unnecessary services. Why would I need a printer spooler service running on a PC that is used purely as a mediacenter that is not even connected to a network. Having all unnecessary services disabled the advantages are that my system boots up very fast and less memory is used. One minute from pressing power on until the mediaportal screen appears. It's also very stable. Services could have bugs or security holes. Having less enabled is therefore positive.
So I've tried wmp11 once and got quite upset. I've the upnp service disabled. I've got no mobile media players or network devices or any reason to have the upnp service running.
Now each time I started wmp11 it tried to start the upnp service, couldn't do it because it's disabled and gave the following error in the system log:
This pissed me off quite a bit and I did not find any solution to fix this but not to use wmp11. Why is there no option in wmp11 to disable that??!
As I've read that wmp11 will become a requirement for RC3 and onward maybe someone can clear me up why exactly wmp11 will become a requirement. Does the use of wmp11 fix any major bug in mediaportal?
I would feel really better after I'm cleared up about this, so I don't have the feeling that the wmp11 requirement is just a mood of someone to "piss off" people that hate wmp11 like me - sorry for the rude expression.
If wmp11 is really something useful / necessary for mediaportal then I think I can live with that…
There is also the wmfdist11.exe package that is part of the wmp11 installer, which can be extracted from it. Wouldn't the windows media runtime 11 + wmp10 be enough as a requirement?
So I've tried wmp11 once and got quite upset. I've the upnp service disabled. I've got no mobile media players or network devices or any reason to have the upnp service running.
Now each time I started wmp11 it tried to start the upnp service, couldn't do it because it's disabled and gave the following error in the system log:
Code:
DCOM got error "The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it. " attempting to start the service upnphost with arguments "" in order to run the server:
{204810B9-73B2-11D4-BF42-00B0D0118B56}
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As I've read that wmp11 will become a requirement for RC3 and onward maybe someone can clear me up why exactly wmp11 will become a requirement. Does the use of wmp11 fix any major bug in mediaportal?
I would feel really better after I'm cleared up about this, so I don't have the feeling that the wmp11 requirement is just a mood of someone to "piss off" people that hate wmp11 like me - sorry for the rude expression.
If wmp11 is really something useful / necessary for mediaportal then I think I can live with that…
There is also the wmfdist11.exe package that is part of the wmp11 installer, which can be extracted from it. Wouldn't the windows media runtime 11 + wmp10 be enough as a requirement?