How to Enable Windows Media Player in Windows 10?

Windows Media Player is a software application which is developed by Microsoft. It is used to play, store, and organize digital audio, images, and video. Once you run windows media player the program automatically scans your PC and List of digital Music, Pictures, and videos. And also it automatically catalogs everything it finds. You can choose the specific folder to find Music files from your system and also windows media player can play songs from one drive but you have to sync the one drive before choosing the path.

Windows Media Player uses the WMV, WMA, and ASF file formats to encode audio and video downloaded from the Internet or ripped from compact discs or other storage media. Recent versions of WMP also include the ability to synchronize digital media with a portable media player, like Microsoft's Zune or Creative's Zen, and purchase or rent content from online media stores. Because WMP uses Microsoft's Windows Media DRM, not FairPlay DRM, files encoded using WMP are not compatible with the iPod.

You can download Windows Media player for free from Microsoft web site, and it also included in windows 10. Due to heavy competition WMP loses its Popularity. Moreover, Microsoft hasn’t updated the WMP since 2009, and Microsoft plans to end its support. It also lacks Lots of features compare to Modern media players. Still, you are decided to use WMP, then in most of the windows 10 versions, you can’t easily find the windows media Player. Some of the users reported that they are not able to find the Windows media player, this article will guide you to enable Windows Media Player and where to find it.

Enable Windows Media Player in Windows 10

Open Control panel >  Programs > Programs & Features and then click on Turn Windows Features On or Off.

Now search for Media Features and expand it there you can see the Windows Media Player, Check that box, and give OK.

Enable windows media player

How to Launch Windows Media Player in Windows 10?

In Windows 10 You can find the windows media player directly from the start menu or by windows Cortana search. If you are using Windows 10 Enterprise and Windows 10 Pro LTSB editions you can’t find the windows media player. Because these editions won’t include windows media player. Follow the above-mentioned method to enable the windows media player.

Launch Windows Media player via the Run command

Open Run command by pressing windows + R and type the following path and hit enter.

C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe

Read Also: How to Disable Media Controls in Windows 11?

2 thoughts on “How to Enable Windows Media Player in Windows 10?”

  1. Couldn’t find a Media Features folder to enable. Not even the official instructions from Microsoft’s website is working for me.

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