Windows – How to enable media sharing in Windows 8

I was able to get this going, I think the Home Group settings had me confused. Instead of through that area, I followed these steps:

1. Open Control Panel in Windows 8
2. Navigate to Network and Internet
3. Under Network and Sharing Center selected View computers and devices
4. Right clicked on the Phone and Sony player (which both appeared as Media Devices) and selected Allow streaming to this device
5. It worked - yay!

Error 1075 may imply that one of the services it depends on doesn't exist.

You can see which services it depends on by running sc qc ServiceName from a Command Prompt (sc.exe if from PowerShell) - adjusting the service name if yours is something different - and checking the DEPENDENCIES section.

The Event Logs may also tell you which service is failing, in Windows Logs -> System, under Event ID 7003.

https://serverfault.com/q/24821/236916 gives a couple of methods for changing dependencies for a service - you can do it with sc by running something like sc config ServiceName depend=All/The/Existing/Dependencies/Except/The/One/You/Want/To/Remove from an Elevated Command Prompt.

It's probably worth saying though, that this won't address the underlying question of why that service ceased to exist.