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S-Warren's avatar
Aug 22, 2015

Genie Makes Multiple Media Servers On All Win 8.1 Networked Computers

Each time you open and exit Netgear Genie it will create an instance of Media Server on all other computers in the same network that are Wifi connected regardless of whether Genie is installed on those computers. So far this only seems to happen on Windows 8 computers as my desktop is unaffected running Windows 7 but my two laptops running Win 8.1 get the duplicate Media Servers.

 

I checked the registry looking for a way to turn off Genie Media Service with no luck. I also checked in Windows Services section and no luck there either. Since Genie Media Service is turned on by default there's no way to prevent duplicates across the network on Windows 8 boxes unless you turn those computers off or disable the Wifi..

 

Perhaps a good hacker can figure out how to tame Genie's bad behavior.

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