Windows Media Player 12—available as part of Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10*—plays more music and video than ever, including Flip Video and unprotected songs from your iTunes library!

Windows 10. If you want to play DVDs in Windows 10, go to Microsoft Store to buy Windows DVD Player or another app that plays DVDs. Free DVD player options are also available. You can download a free trial version of Windows DVD Player to check if it's compatible with your device before you buy it.

File compression software. If you run file compression software on your PC, we recommend that you not let the software access and compress file folders where your games are installed. By default, games from the Xbox app and Microsoft Store will install to the C: drive.

Open the Microsoft Store. You’ll be prompted to sign in if you haven’t already.

Here's how: Press the Start button on your Windows device or keyboard, or select the Windows icon in the lower-left corner of the main screen. Go to Search, enter dxdiag.exe, and then select dxdiag Run Command in the list of results, or press Enter.

Find and play the games already installed on your PC and in your collection using the Xbox Console Companion app on your Windows 10 PC.

Select My library > Manage installs. You can see the status of the items in your queue from here, and you can choose to pause or cancel any installations. When a download is complete, a notification may appear on your screen. You can select the notification to launch the title. For more info on PC game installations, see:

Describes an issue in which you receive Application Error in the Explorer.exe process in Windows 8.1 or Windows Server 2012 R2. This issue occurs when you right-click the Start tip to shut down or to restart the computer.

Games & apps. Get to know Game Bar on Windows. Open Game Bar to take control of all your favorite gaming activities while playing on your Windows 10/11 device. Note To use many of the Xbox features within Game Bar, you must have the Xbox app for Windows installed and be signed in. Get the Xbox app for Windows.

For full-screen PC games, use Windows logo key + Alt + G to start and stop recording. To edit a clip, select See my captures. Use Game Bar to capture game clips and screenshots on Windows. Use the Game Bar in Windows to capture video and screenshots while playing PC games.