Windows 10: Accessing Desired Folders - Media Streaming Options

Goal: Watch videos & listen to music that is stored on my PC --- on my LG TV. I have gotten this to work, but not the folders I want.

1. Have connected my Win 10 Pro computer to my wired router.
2. Have connected my new LG TV to my wired router.
3. The PC sees the "Media Devices" of the LG TV.
4. The LG sees my PC, calls it "storage" as part of its "media sharing" system.
5. When I click to watch or listen, the TV seems to only have access to the PC's default C: drive Music, Video, Photos folders.
6. I don't store anything there. Have my videos, etc. on different drives.
7. I have tested moving a video and audio file to those c: drive folders, and they work. So...

Does anyone have any idea to be able to access my needed folders? Or if not, maybe to convert those C: drive folders into shortcuts for the file folders I want to access? Would suck to have to copy files to the C: drive all the time.

Thanks!

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Media streaming option is missing please help

Hi Kevin,

There's another way on how you can turn on the Media Streaming option in your Windows 10 device. Here's how:

• Launch Windows Media Player.
• Click on Stream and choose Turn on media streaming.
• A new window will pop up. Click on the Turn on media streaming button.

If the option is still not available, we suggest creating a new user profile with administrator privileges to check if the option will appear.

Once you have verified that the option is available in the newly created user profile, you can transfer your data from the old user account to the newly created one.

If you need further assistance, feel free to contact us.

 

Quick Access not searching Pictures folder

Summary, that last suggestion didn't work.

• I moved the pictures to another folder temporarily.

• Then I tried to remove the Pictures folder with option one at Add or Remove Folders from This PC in Windows 10 | Windows 10 Tutorials. Even after rebooting, the Pictures folder remained.
• So I tried using option two. Same thing: reboot >> Pictures folder still there.

• Since there were no troubleshooting steps for this scenario, just for the heck of it, I ran through the restore steps. Copied some pictures into the Pictures folder, ran a Quick Access search and initial problem remains: Searching all of QA doesn't find any files in Pictures folder, running search on just the Pictures folder does. I want to run a global search and find matching files in any/all of the Documents, Music, Videos, and Pictures folders.

That article dates from 2015 and I'm guessing is out of date. I hope it didn't create potential future problems in my registry.

Bottom line: I'm still looking for a fix.

 

Media Streaming option disappeared on Windows 10

Hi,

Thank you for replying.

As the option, Change Advanced sharing settings is visible on the Left pane, I suggest you to click on it. Further select and expand
All Networks option. You will find the media streaming option under it.

Hope you find and access the option. Do keep us posted.