Media Center
How to Disable the Windows Media Center in Windows 7
Perhaps you are a person who owns a business and you don’t want to run the Windows Media Center on the machines as well though the Windows Media Center has improved much in Windows 7 when compared with the previous versions of Windows. Here, I will show you how to Disable the Windows Media Center.
Using Programs and Features to Turn Off WMC
Probably the easiest way to get rid of it on all versions of Windows 7 is to open Control Panel and select Programs and Features.
On the left hand panel click on “Turn Windows Features on or off”.
Then scroll down to Media Features and expand the folder. Uncheck “Windows Media Center”.
You’ll get a verification message making sure you want to disable it, click ‘Yes”.
Then the box next to Windows Media Center will be empty…click OK.
Wait while WMC is disabled…
To complete the process a reboot is required.
After getting back from the restart, the WMC icon will be gone and there won’t be any way to launch it.
Re-enable WMC
If you want to re-enable it, just go back in and recheck it.
Again you’ll need to wait while it’s configured, but when it’s done, a restart is not required.
Using Group Policy to Disable Media Center
Note: This process uses Group Policy Editor which is not available in Home versions of Windows 7.
Just click on the Start menu and type gpedit.msc into the Search box and hit Enter.
Now navigate to User Configuration Administrative Templates Windows Components Windows Media Center.
Double-click on “Do not allow Windows Media Center to run”. Then select the radio button next to “Enabled”, click “OK” to close out of Group Policy Editor.
Now if a user tries to launch WMC they will get the following message.
Note: WMC is not included in Starter or Home Basic versions of Windows 7.
There I introduce three ways for you to disable the Windows Media Center, you can choose what you favourate from them. Just enjoy yourself !
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