
However, keep in mind that antivirus developers have strived in the past years to comply with the requirements of various activity modes users might need. Try switching your antivirus software off, only temporarily, which you can usually do via antivirus utilities’ system tray icon context menus. If that’s the case, antivirus software might be blocking DirectPlay. Thus, they can’t install DirectPlay as outlined above. Some users have stated that they get an error code 0x80073701 when attempting to install DirectPlay.

Then enter Control Panel in Run, and click the OK button.

To enable DirectPlay, first press the Win key + R keyboard shortcut to open Run.Use the Program Compatibility Troubleshooter.
