Q: Missing Media Feature Pack Windows 10 x64 V5.0

I'm actually on the phone with Apple as I type this.  Will update as I find out info.

The error message is misleading, the media feature pack will do you no good.

What you want to do is open the start menu and search for "Turn Windows features on or off", in the window that opens look for media features, expand it, select Windows Media Player and click OK. With that done iCloud 5 will install. Why does iCloud 5 need WMP when iCloud  4 did not? No idea...

Oh man, how I wish that had worked!  It acted like it was going to do so, but then I received error message 0x80071A90 from Windows, stating files were missing and offers a solution via this page: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2734782 which doesn't help.

Any ideas?

THANKS!!!

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@Leonick

Thank you. Now it works!

@Leonick

Thank you very much, that worked for me also.

Running Windows 10 Pro, Build 10576 on a 2008 Dell Inspiron 1525

thanks a lot

Hello,

Any notion from Apple Support on which FILES in specific are needed by iCloud from Windows Media Player windows feature?

I despise Windows Media Player and consider it essentially MALWARE (it's not really ) it's very unstable, a memory hog and throws a POOP TON of, well POOP into your system as well.

I've am 41, have been a Windows Developer for 24 years, an Apple Developer (iOS and OSX) for > 8 years and while I am subjective in most of my opinions, the facts of WMP are objective.

I'll figure this out and an alternate solution to prevent WMP from being needed.

-Mike

I agree wholeheartedly with you mwkeefer re Windows Media Player--I consider it "thug software", and won't use it.  If you come up with a solution that does not require Media Player, I'd appreciate it if you post it.

I became a member of this forum for just the possibility of such a solution.

Thanks.

Bearsfolks,

You won't like this yet...

I've succeeded in acheiving my initial GOAL - fetching 15.7 GB (2012-2015) archives in the cloud for a client, all in full resolution, etc.

My methods were SLOW and DIRTY!!!

I basically created a Virtual Box VM using the official microsoft IE Test Virtual Disk Images (Available from WinXP to Win10 with Edge) and run quite well in Oracle Virtual Box on my modest Lenovo S11 Yoga 2.5 (I call it a 2.5 because it's not quite a 2 nor an 11S, it's like they refurbed it but forgot to put a serial number in the BIOS which leads me to determine verison based on HW) which is as I can tell a Haswell Chipset with a 2.5 Core i5 Dual Core, Quad Thread atop 12GB of RAM and a 480GB SSD Drive internally.

Once created it was super simple:

1.) Once the VM was up and running:

CPUs:               2

RAM:                2096

Swap File:         2095-2096

USB Support:     2.0

Physical Disk Size:     8GB Virtual Disk Size 128GB (Way too big but then it worked)

Local Folder Access:     I mapped c:\local\archive\<customer name>\ to C:\Users\Documents\My Photos\iCloud Photos with full read and write support.

2.) Took a clean snapshot of the VM Image to use as a "NEXT INTERATION TESTING", no I won't leave everyone cold without a file based solution (may require installing various bits from archive, SFC, etc - I will keep this legal only, may even need a DONER Install Disk or i386 directory to expand the ._files to useable once again.

My next interation I will determine which files iCloud 5 and then 5.1 actually require from the Windows Media Player install (since it's just enabled / diabled, it must be stock files) - if it merely fails because it doesn't detect the files at all, but  we don't care about that aspect (playback of media as there is no iTunes on Windows) I suppose Step #1 will be trick it with fake executables to get it going and then Step #2 - Create a Win32/64 thunk layter

1.) I Installed the latest version of iTunes Available

2.) I enabled Windows Media Player feature (without debug tracing, file monitoring, etc - Step  #2)

3.) I downloaded and installed iCloud v5.1 (I think) and ran setup.

Once completed I just went to Start->Computer->iCloud Photos and from the Top Left Clicked Download Photos

This process took overnight.

So it was completed, backwards as all **** but completed.

I will document a proper solution after christmas, perhaps even some code to do the same thing without the interface.

-Mike    

I'm experiencing the same problem every time I try to download iCloud; the exact same error message pops up. But when I open "Turn Windows features on or off", I don't have a "Media Features" option to expand in order to click Windows Media Player.   Any suggestions on how to get the Media Features/WMP option to appear or another solution to my problem?

Very same problem here...

I ignored this until i just found your resolution. Thanks for posting it.