How To Get Windows Media Center On Windows 8 Pro For Free

Microsoft Windows 8 is already out with several new top-notch features and receiving quite positive response from the users. New Windows 8 users who recently upgraded their PCs to Windows 8 might unable to play DVD movies because of the missing Windows Media Center. With Windows 8, Windows Media Center is not coming as a pre-installed item and guess what it isn't free anymore, therefore, you need to purchase the Windows Media Center in order to use it. But, wait Microsoft is giving away Windows Media Center to Windows 8 Pro users until the 31st of January, 2013.

In order to receive Windows Media Center without any cost, you need to visit this link and enter your email ID and Captcha to receive a product key in your email. Once you have received the email ID, go through the following steps to activate Windows Media Center on your machine:

Press Win+Q to open global search and enter “Add features” (without quotes) to search box.
Make sure that you are searching in the “Settings”, not in the “Apps” or “Files”.
From the results click/tap on “Add features to Windows 8”.
Click/tap on “I already have a product key”.
Enter the key that you received via an email and hit “Next”.
At last accept the terms and conditions and just hit “Add features”.
Now simply restart your machine and you all set to use Windows Media Center absolutely free.