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Fix Problems with Media

Degunking Checklist:

Get updates for all of your media players

Get rid of media players you don’t use

Review and clean up your playlists

Create useful auto playlists

Back up media and/or media licenses

Authorize or deauthorize computers to play media

Troubleshoot Play To

Review what you’re recording in Windows Media Center

Degunk Windows Media Center

You’ve already organized your media files into folders and subfolders, looked for duplicate files, learned how to place media to avoid duplicates, and incorporated Public folders for sharing (Chapter 4). You’ve deleted unwanted and unnecessary media data (Chapter 3). You’ve learned how to configure sharing over your network, how to secure that network, and how to create a homegroup (Chapter 10). We’re not going to go over all of that again here, so if you’re skipping around (shame on you!), you’ll have to review those chapters to see what you missed; we don’t want to rehash all of that. What we want to do here is degunk the media programs you use and resolve the problems that occur while using them.