The Desktop Experience feature enables you to install a variety of Windows 7 features on your server running Windows Server 2008. If you use Windows Server 2008 as your primary operating system, you might want to have some of these Windows 7 features available for your daily use.
Desktop Experience consist of various features including the "Windows Media Player", "Desktop themes", "AVI Video Support for Windows", "Windows SideShow", "Windows Defender", "Disk Cleanup", "Sync Center", "Sound Recorder", "Character Map", "Snipping Tool" and others.
Etere requires some components of the Desktop Experience feature to accomplish specific tasks such as media compression (wmdcore.dll) and wmv decoding (wmvcore.dll).