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Has anyone else had this problem with WMP11 on Vista?

The sharing service was stopping me from accessing media stored on the PC from the XBOX 360.

The fix for me was to forcebly start the ‘Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service’. Even though the service lists as ‘Started” in Services it wasn’t starting properly. The path to the executable is: “C:Program FilesWindows Media Playerwmpnetwk.exe” so go to start>Run> and type in the Open box C:Program FilesWindows Media Playerwmpnetwk.exe and hit enter. It will run in a command prompt windows for a few seconds and all should be sorted.

Upon searching the web for a solution all I found was thousands of forum posts with the exact same problem and NO SOLUTION. In every case the problem wasn’t solved and just repeated on different post sites. There was the same solution on almost every post that didn’t work for me or anyone else for that matter which askes users to reset the digital media rights, delete certain files and all kinds of other hogwash.

Simple fix: Run C:Program FilesWindows Media Playerwmpnetwk.exe