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[ysmonyog]

"Widows media player network sharing service" was not available in services and "choose media stream option" did not lead to the screen having "Turn on media streaming" button.
I disabled and again enabled "Media Player" from "Turn windows features on or off" in control panel. Now the above service is in services list and is running. "Turn on media streaming" button also is now available. But on clicking it greys out for a fraction of second and then is again available for clicking. i.e, streaming doesn't turn on.
I googled and tried a solution " renaming of Media Player folder in user/appdata/local/Microsoft/" to let Media player recreate "Media Player" folder. This did not work.

 

[whitestar_999]

from the looks of it seems like some windows setting corruption.try repairing your windows 7 install.if tired of trying then you can simply format & reinstall win 7 or use an earlier image of C drive to restore win 7 to a clean state(just after fresh install & drivers,nothing else like softwares etc if you had made one,if not then take note & make 2-3 such images of C drive using macrium reflect free version for troubleshooting like just after fresh install,fresh install+all drivers,fresh install+all drivers+absolutely minimum softwares etc).

 

[ysmonyog]

Thanks Whitestar_999. I was also considering fresh install and shall make images as suggested by you.
Thanks again for your support.