Ed Bott - Windows 10 Support Secrets

53 CHAPTER 4 | Having fun Figure 4-1: Use this Settings page to see (and, if necessary, change) the current default music player, photo viewer, and video player. The Default Apps page doesn’t distinguish between Store apps and traditional desktop programs such as Windows Media Player, Windows Photo Viewer, or third-party alternatives. Oh, and that “out with the old” part I mentioned at the beginning of this chapter? Two features from earlier Windows versions are missing from Windows 10:  The software required to play DVDs is not included with Windows 10, reflecting the reality that most new PCs don’t include DVD drives. PCs that include this hardware typically also ship with third-party playback software that includes the necessary software. The free VLC media player (available from https://videolan.org ) is a perfectly good option if you find yourself unable to play back a DVD or a digital file created in the MPEG-2 format used by DVDs.  Windows Media Center, a signature part of “premium” Windows versions since 2002, is also not included with Windows 10. Its features have largely been supplanted by devices that connect directly to a TV, including the Microsoft Xbox One and streaming media devices. (See the discussion of the Miracast feature in Chapter 6 for one such example.)