How to stop Windows 7 computer from advertising DLNA on the LAN?

I have a streaming server and client on my network, but when I use the client, the server list is cluttered up with the Windows 7 computers I have. I will never, ever be using these computers to stream videos, so how can I remove them from the list? I discovered
that I can do it by removing the Windows Media Player component, but if I do that, then my computers can't play videos either! I just want Windows to stop advertising DLNA services on the network.
Incidentally, this question is not as simple as it seems, because I do have streaming turned OFF. If I use my DLNA client to select one of my Windows computers, I get an error on my TV screen saying that streaming isn't enabled. I want to stop Windows advertising
a service that isn't there...
A workaround would be to remove Windows Media Player and install a third-party media player, but I don't really want to do that.
I imagine that the solution is to disable a "windows service" but I don't know what it's called. Thanks!

Yes, that's it. I never found the thread when I searched for an answer because no one mentioned DLNA in the thread at all, which is weird because that's what it's about...
So the service is called "Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service". Thanks to bawoodruff for that.
I echo the frustration described by "jase-in-atl" when he complains that streaming can be turned on, but not off again. My streaming was OFF because I'd never used it, but I had to turn it ON before I could set all the devices to "blocked".
When I blocked all devices, it no longer showed up on the client's list, as I wanted.
It's certainly a very user-unfriendly option, that I have to turn streaming ON, in order to successfully turn the DLNA advertisement OFF. Turning streaming ON seems like a backwards step. Microsoft's attempts to simplify things, or possibly to cajole people
into using certain windows features, certainly makes the settings harder to understand.

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