I have a Dell XPS 8700 that has been upgraded from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1. I than purchased and installed a retail upgrade to Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center. The machine is used to record and share broadcast TV to a Sony Digital TV and other computers on my home network.
The problem I am encountering is that after initially setting up WMP streaming sharing, all is well until I need to reboot the machine (Windows updates, etc.). After reboot, WMP indicates that streaming is available, but it is no longer shown as a network device on the Dell XPS 8700 nor is the machine visible as a streaming device to other devices on the local network.
The only recovery I have found is to uninstall all media services, reinstall the services, delete at least one WMP media file, re-rip the file and turn on WMP media streaming.
I have searched the internet for possible solutions, but have not found anything that looked like this problem.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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