
Media Center can play slideshows, videos and music from local hard drives, optical drives and network locations. It was also available on Windows 8 Pro and Windows 8.1 Pro as a paid add-on, before being discontinued in Windows 10, although it can reportedly be unofficially reinstalled using a series of Command Prompt commands.


It was included in Home Premium and Ultimate editions of Windows Vista, as well as all editions of Windows 7 except Starter and Home Basic. Media Center was first introduced to Windows in 2002 on Windows XP Media Center Edition ( MCE).

Windows Media Center ( WMC) is a defunct digital video recorder and media player created by Microsoft.
