KB4046355 Deletes Windows Media Player in Windows 10 Build 16299

Re:KB4046355 Deletes Windows Media Player in Windows 10 Buil... by AndrewCHM on Monday October 09, 2017 @01:02PM (#15435537)

Doesn't that just make the program opt-in instead of opt-out?

(And it separates the ActiveX stuff from the application too, which I'm happy to hear, applications that use it for decoding now shouldn't require the full WMP install)

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Re:KB4046355 Deletes Windows Media Player in Windows 10 Buil... by sp332 on Monday October 09, 2017 @01:06PM (#15435575)

How would you opt-in?

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Re:KB4046355 Deletes Windows Media Player in Windows 10 Buil... by cptskippy on Monday October 09, 2017 @01:53PM (#15435948)

Search your start menu for "Add Feature". There are lots of features not installed by default but part of Windows and still supported. They're not installed by default either because they're very obscure or specific functions not everyone uses (e.g. IIS, XPS). Or they're things Microsoft would like to kill off but can't because they're so entrenched (e.g. Active X, WMP).

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Re:KB4046355 Deletes Windows Media Player in Windows 10 Buil... by chowells on Monday October 09, 2017 @01:09PM (#15435596)

Follow the directions provided at the bottom of the article for asking Windows to install it.

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