Windows Media Connect, XBOX 360 and Windows x64

Kevin Lowe provided some information from the Windows Media Newsgroup in the Windows 64 bit newsgroup about installing Windows Media Connect on Windows XP Professional x64.

Here's some instructions provided in the Windows Media newsgroup for installing Windows Media Connect on x64.  If you want your Xbox 360 to stream music off your PC, you'll need this software.  It's totally, way-out-of-left-field unsupported, so don't blame me or MS if this happens to blow up your computer, set fire to your lawn, mutate your kids, etc..

However, it worked for me, so I'll pass it along to everyone else here. Below is the message, quoted in its entirety, and someone should commend this guy for hooking us up.  -KML

Of course, this is completly unsupported (and totally useful) so you didn't hear it from me.  You'll need wmccds.exe, wmcsci.dll, and wmccfg.exe from out of the setup package.  You should be able to get it by downloading the setup package and opening it up with winzip and just extracting the files.  For
the rest of this you'll need to be logged in as an adiminstrator.

1.  Create an install directory.  Something like c:\program files(x86)\Windows Media Connect 2
2.  Copy wmccds.exe, wmcsci.dll, and wmccdf.exe to your install directory.
3.  Open a 32bit command window and navigate to your install directory.
4.  Run "regsvr32 wmcsci.dll"
5.  Run "wmccds.exe -installwithfiles"
6.  Run wmccfg.exe and complete the "first run wizard"

To uninstall WMC (without removing any actual files)

7. exit wmccfg.exe (not just close to the task bar, but actually exit)
8. run "net stop wmconnectcds" to stop the service.
9. run "regsvr32 -u wmcsci.dll"

I haven't actually tried any of this stuff running under WOW on an x64 system.  But that should get you past the setup block.

Hope it works!

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Alan Ludwig
Software Design Engineer
Windows Media Devices Group

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