WMP11 - Fails to enable media sharing on Windows XP

Lum

I'm trying to enable media sharing from WMP11. The media sharing dialog
presents itself, whereby I select to "Share my media", hit OK - and then no
reponse and I return to the same dialog as if I had not done anything.

I've checked the Event Viewer and it records a system error (Event ID: 7001)
- "The WMP Network Sharing Service service depends on the UPNP Device Host
service which failed to start because of the error: %%0"

I've tried to manually start the UPNPhost service but it starts and then
stops immediately.

Any help would be appreciated.

zachd [MSFT]

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"Lum" <> wrote in message
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> I'm trying to enable media sharing from WMP11. The media sharing dialog
> presents itself, whereby I select to "Share my media", hit OK - and then
> no
> reponse and I return to the same dialog as if I had not done anything.
>
> I've checked the Event Viewer and it records a system error (Event ID:
> 7001)
> - "The WMP Network Sharing Service service depends on the UPNP Device Host
> service which failed to start because of the error: %%0"
>
> I've tried to manually start the UPNPhost service but it starts and then
> stops immediately.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>

mdb

I am having the same problem. All of the dependencies are running fine, and
I have checked the permissions, but when you try to start the upnp service,
it says that it was started and then stopped because it didn't have anything
to do.

I have scoured the internet for a week and tried just about about everything
I can think of to fix this without any luck. There seems to be plenty of
people with the same problem, but not many answers...

"Lum" wrote:

> I'm trying to enable media sharing from WMP11. The media sharing dialog
> presents itself, whereby I select to "Share my media", hit OK - and then no
> reponse and I return to the same dialog as if I had not done anything.
>
> I've checked the Event Viewer and it records a system error (Event ID: 7001)
> - "The WMP Network Sharing Service service depends on the UPNP Device Host
> service which failed to start because of the error: %%0"
>
> I've tried to manually start the UPNPhost service but it starts and then
> stops immediately.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>

MSC

Folks, had exactly the same problem - a quick check of my services revealed
my WMP Network Sharing service was disabled. I set that to auto, enabled it,
and BINGO. I can now share.
I hope this helps.

"mdb" wrote:

> I am having the same problem. All of the dependencies are running fine, and
> I have checked the permissions, but when you try to start the upnp service,
> it says that it was started and then stopped because it didn't have anything
> to do.
>
> I have scoured the internet for a week and tried just about about everything
> I can think of to fix this without any luck. There seems to be plenty of
> people with the same problem, but not many answers...
>
> "Lum" wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to enable media sharing from WMP11. The media sharing dialog
> > presents itself, whereby I select to "Share my media", hit OK - and then no
> > reponse and I return to the same dialog as if I had not done anything.
> >
> > I've checked the Event Viewer and it records a system error (Event ID: 7001)
> > - "The WMP Network Sharing Service service depends on the UPNP Device Host
> > service which failed to start because of the error: %%0"
> >
> > I've tried to manually start the UPNPhost service but it starts and then
> > stops immediately.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >