Recommendation: If you use a third-party client like VLC Media Player or SMPlayer, turn it off. Windows Media Player is the default multimedia player on Windows 10. It is a so-so program that lacks support for several popular video and audio codecs. Recommendation: Turn off unless one of your games requires DirectPlay. Microsoft deprecated DirectPlay in favor of Games for Windows Live more than ten years ago.Ĭlassic computer games, those created ten or more years ago, may require DirectPlay but modern games released in the past ten years definitely don't. Legacy Components DirectPlayĭirectPlay is a deprecated API that was once part of Microsoft's DirectX API. If you don't require that, and don't need the browser to access legacy apps, turn it off. Microsoft's Update Catalog works with any browser now. Recommendation: IE11 is the only browser that can access the Microsoft Update Catalog currently to download patches manually. The default browser on Windows 10 machines is Microsoft Edge, but Microsoft ships a copy of Internet Explorer 11 with the operating system for legacy support reasons.
