After opening the Registry Editor, navigate to this path- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft Next, click the Yes button in the UAC popup window. For that, press Win+R, type regedit and hit the Enter button. To get started, you have to open the Registry Editor.
Let’s check out the detailed version of these steps.įirst, create a System Restore point as you are going to change in Registry files.
Double-click on it to set the Value data as 1. Right-click on WindowsMediaPlayer > New > DWORD (32-bit) Value. To stop Windows Media Player from downloading codecs automatically using Registry Editor, follow these steps. Stop Windows Media Player from downloading codecs automatically using Registry Editor Double-click on it and select the Enabled option.Īfter that, Windows Media Player won’t download media codecs automatically, and the Download codecs automatically checkbox will be disabled as well. In the Playback folder, you will get a setting called Prevent Codec Download. After opening it, navigate to the following path- User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Media Player > Playback For that, press Win+R, type gpedit.msc, and hit the Enter button. Double-click on the Prevent Codec Download setting.Īt first, you have to open the Local Group Policy Editor. Type gpedit.msc and hit the Enter button. To prevent Windows Media Player from downloading codecs automatically using Group Policy, follow these steps. Prevent Windows Media Player from downloading codecs automatically using Group Policy You can prevent Windows Media Player from downloading Codecs automatically using the Registry Editor and the Local Group Policy Editor. However, if you do not let it download automatically due to bandwidth issues, here is how to do that. 
Windows Media Player often downloads media codecs to play an unsupported file on Windows 10 PC.
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