I recently got an Xbox 360, and have it set up on my home network for Xbox live and all.
I want to try to connect to my PC, but it's running Windows XP SP2. Microsoft's site says to install Windows Media Player 11 and use that.
I tried installing WMP11, but it fails during the install, with no real specific error other than "Could not install".
Most of the pages on Xbox.com and microsoft talk about either using Vista or XP Media Center edition. I was wondering if what I'm trying to do is possible, or if they are trying to use this as a way to push Vista, making it Vista only?
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I tried installing WMP11, but it fails during the install, with no real specific error other than "Could not install".
I'd give that another shot.
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I tried installing WMP11, but it fails during the install, with no real specific error other than "Could not install".
I'd give that another shot.
Tried that twice, with no luck. Both fail during the installation saying nothing more than "Could not install".
I'm gonna give up for now, and work on cleaning up some of my computer a bit to make sure something else isn't wrong with Windows Media Player.
I wonder if it's possible to uninstall windows media player and start fresh. I wonder how merged windows and windows media player are.
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Ok, Update:
I got it working.
Turns out it really did install even though it errored and said it didn't (Other users reported the same thing happening).
The next problem was configuring my computer and router to correctly allow my Xbox and PC to connect to each other. I was using a BEFSR41 v2 from Linksys, and upgraded the firmware to the latest version.
After many different configuration tries, the problem turned out to be UPnP was disabled by default on Windows XP SP2. Enabled UPnP under the services, started it, and WMP11 was able to find the Xbox no problem.
Spent hours reading forums, and stumbled upon that just 15 minutes ago.
I got it working.
Turns out it really did install even though it errored and said it didn't (Other users reported the same thing happening).
The next problem was configuring my computer and router to correctly allow my Xbox and PC to connect to each other. I was using a BEFSR41 v2 from Linksys, and upgraded the firmware to the latest version.
After many different configuration tries, the problem turned out to be UPnP was disabled by default on Windows XP SP2. Enabled UPnP under the services, started it, and WMP11 was able to find the Xbox no problem.
Spent hours reading forums, and stumbled upon that just 15 minutes ago.
Can't sleep, clown will eat me.
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