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    - Only one Tuner works! I'm setting up my new HP Pavilion Ultimate D4999TPC. This is my second, since the first one I had to return b/c it had all kinds of problems (such as no internet access). It's equipped with dual ATSC-NTSC TV tuner, PVR, FM tuner, REM. One card is Hauppague WinTV HVR-1600 (NTSC/ATSC combo) and the other card is ViXS PureTV-U 48BO (NTSC/ATSC combo). Total of 4 tuners. I have analog cable (coming out of the wall and I use a splitter to connect to the tv tuners). 1st problem: When I do auto config, it either comes back with no tuners found or only one tuner found but detects my analog cable as antenna. 2nd problem: When I do manual config, only the NTSC connector would work on the Hauppauge card and I get nothing on the ViXS card. With the previously returned unit, I was able to get both tuners to work on the Hauppage card, although, sometimes the ATSC tuner would quit and I would have to restart the computer (sometimes 2 or 3 times) and then it would work again. Another issue I have with this new system while the previous system did not have this issue, is when it's recording something, I cannot go to "live tv" even though it's the same channel that it's recording. Conclusion: I'm stuck with only one usable tuner out or 4! The useless tech support tells me I cannot use both tuners on the same card. They say it's impossible, even though that's exactly what I did with the previous system. They want to send me another Hauppauge card to replace the ViXS card (which also has the FM tuner so then I would not have an FM tuner). He said with two seperate Hauppage cards, I would then be able to use 2 tuners. This does not make sense to me. I should be able to usee both tuners on the Hauppauge card as I did before. Oh, one more thing with this system (and not with the previous system), When downloading the Guide, I would keep getting "download incomplete--Code:13" And then eventually, after a bunch of tries, it would finally complete. My wireless status is "excellent." Please help!! Thank you!!!! Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180548
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    - Replacing poor MCE tv signal with external STB signal/feed The Windows Media Center PC that i have obviously has an internal tv card built in. Quite a few people have said it is not reknowned for it's quality. I have a couple of digital tv set top boxes that provide superb quality pictures and sound. In detrimental contrast to that, the digital tv receiver in the Media Center, or pc?, i'm not sure which it's a part of, suffers from interference and picture break up, as well as failing to find channels. It often states that a channel can't be found because the signal is weak. However, i can assure you that the signal at the end of the coax cable going into the pc is not weak and i have tested it the cheapets set top box i could find. The cheapo stb found and displayed every single channel perfectly. In view of the above, i was wondering if i can get the media center to use the 'out' signal on the STB in preference to it's internal tuner card. The connection is via the coax input socket on the back of the pc. I'm confused as to whether, when one connects and sets up the MCE to work with a STB, it uses it's own tv card signal or the STB's signal. If it is the latter then that is perfect as i can just reset the MCE to use the superior STB feed. Therefore, my question is: in such a set up which signal is being used?. Many, many thanks in advance for anyone who knows the answer to this question for sure, and also shares it here of course. -- this SHAM of DEMOCRACY leaves NO CHOICE sham.manchesterpaul.net for Life, Love, Peace, Justice and Truth Who_Murdered_Democracy If you pass me by - Such a shame, shame, shame Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180512
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    - TIF images with Windows Media Center / Vista Hello, I have used succesfully informations regarding JPG/JPEG, thanks ... I still have probelm with TIF images : - they show in WMC as long as they are not compressed - they do not show if some compression has been applied like LZW, CCITT Gr4, JPEG, ... Would there be some REGEDIT or other patching to be done ? -- Sincerely Mike Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180510
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    - Recording when hooked up to Dish network I have only had my media center for about 2 weeks. I think I have all the right things hooked up. I went through the wizard and have all the stuff hooked up. I watch live tv just fine. The problem I am having is with the recording. I can set it up to record two programs. But when the program comes up to record, it only records what I am watching on my regular tv. I have gone through the changing channels and it does that correctly. It wont record only what is on my regular tv. If my dish box is turned off, it will only record the away message that dish network has on. I have read everything and search all over trying to find an answer for this and I cant, so I thought I would throw it at you and see if you can help me with this. I must say, I do have the dish network box with the DVR in it, will this prohibit me from recording on my media center? All I have been able to do is record directly what I am watching, nothing that I have scheduled that would have to be on a different channel. HELP Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180501
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    - Error When I close one window I get a message saying "Internet Exporer has encountered a problem and needs to close." Then gives me the option to "debug" or "close" What do I do to fix this? Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180489
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    - Stop Downloads onto local machines Hello. Just a general question here. Can any of you experts tell me if there is a way to prevent a user from downloading? I have 4 machines which I need to allow users to be able to surf the web, but NOT be able to download anything on to their computers (ie: games, music, etc). I know there is various software out there that will do this. But, I am looking to see if there is a way to create this rule or restriction in Windows? Thanks, avi Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180485
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    - Channels Missing (Low Signal in MCE) -- But Work with WinTV app I am missing about half broadcast digital channels that are available to me in my area. My HDTV has a tuner and can receive these channels, and my Hauppauge HVR-1800 also can receive these channels using their WinTV software package on the same computer that is running MCE. How can I force MCE to allow me to tune these channels? It seems to me that perhaps MCE is assuming I cannot receive these channels, or it's looking at the wrong channel or something? Sorry if this question has been posed before, but I cannot find a solution to the above issue. Thanks! Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180484
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    - Stop User from Rearranging ICONs on desktop Hi, I have to maintain 70 computers in classrooms. I have the ICONs set in a certain way on the desktop so that I know where they are. Users can rearrange and/or added icons to the desktop. However, how can I have the setting set back to the way they were when the Users have log off? Thanks Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180483
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    - Why is Auto Playlist repeated many times? Hi I'm using Vista Media Center. For some reason I'm getting the Auto Playlists in the Music Library 3 times. I have 3 times of All Music, All Pictures, All Videos, Music added in the last month, and so on. This seems to be for all auto playlists. Anyone have any ideas about why this is and how to fix it? Best regards, Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180481
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    - ATSC physical channels incorrectly set to post-transiton channels Recently (March 17 or thereabouts) Microsoft changed atscchannels.xml in my area so that the physical channels of three local channels KCTS, KSTW and KWPX point to their POST-transition channels. This has broken the reception of these three channels for anyone using MC to watch local broadcasts in the Seattle area. please reset the physical channels for these three channels back to their PRE-transition channels until the actual transition. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.mspx?mid=f70fd973-eec6-4c28-a8fa-94fdb2d54519&dg=microsoft.public.windows.mediacenter Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180477
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    - Cable TV signal setup problems Hello, When I try to watch live TV using Media Center the picture is horrible. It is hard to make out what is going on and the picture flips across the screen. It looks almost as if something is set to the wrong channel. The audio is fine. I have gone through the setup numerous times. My cable tv is directly connected to the tuner card in my Dell XPS 410. I tried going through the setup and telling it I had a satellite or set-top tuner. Through these options it let me try 3 different channels for signal. Channel 2 looked like what I see, channel 3 looked much better but a bit fuzzy, channel 4 had no signal. Unfortunately, though, as this is not the correct setup for my direct cable connection I have to abort because it keeps telling me IR hardware not dtected. This used to work fine. Somewhere along the line the picture went and I just figured maybe something was wrong with the cable itself. It is definitely not the cable. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Mike Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180476
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    - Pie in the sky! I may be behind the curve on this but... How about developing an open standard for controlling STBs via RS232, or IP? A standard that will allow MCE to truely talk to STBs and other media devices, sending direct commands and determining STB status, using something like streamed XML? This wouldn't just help MCE, but the Audio/Video industry as well. Then you can get around all this IR/UHF/STB frustration. MCEs only truly usefull if it can be configured so everyone in the house can use it, and they aren't all techs. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.mspx?mid=b52053eb-c4b2-495a-a784-42367104499d&dg=microsoft.public.windows.mediacenter Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180473
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    - Function Keys on Remote Different STBs require different methods of interaction depending on their state, and MCE has no way of knowing the state of the STB. For example, my dish network STB resets every night, so I have to hit OK to turn it on. There is no way to do this via MCE, so somedays MCE just records a screen saver from the STB. Solutions1: Allow automation IR scripts to be run before a recording event. A script can consist of recorded IR sequences that are played back to the STB before a recording takes place. Solutions2: Add function buttons (eg F1,F2,F3) to the remote, and have the ability to have the function modes mapped to different IR commands. Therefore I could config F1 to map keys to IR commands specifically for the STB. Then if my STB gets out of Sync I can put MCE into F1 mode by hitting the key, and use my remote just like the STB remote to synch up the STB. This also opens the possibilty for mapping to other devices like SoundSystems. Solutions3: Just for the sake of throwing something else out there, how about an IR blaster that truely Blasts! All I can find are mini blasters that require a Bug to be taped over the STB eye. Kind of tacky to say the least. If I can control my TV from acrss the room, I should be able to have an IR blaster that can work from across the room. This would also help open up possibilities mentioned above. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.mspx?mid=3069d09d-2c2d-40d4-abcd-2de4e5a11c83&dg=microsoft.public.windows.mediacenter Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180471
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    - Frustration with STB / IR and MCE in general Problem: Can't block channels. Even if I hide a channel in the guide, I can still access it directly using the remote. This means if I fat-finger the channel I can end up on one not supported by my STB subscription, therefore ending up on a menu that I can't get out of becuase.... MCE won't transmit my already mapped "OK" signal to the STB. Solution: Add the ability to truely block a channel, so it donesn't appear in the guide and can't be accessed directly from the remote. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.mspx?mid=8e48199f-91df-4b9b-80b8-305b1d1d981c&dg=microsoft.public.windows.mediacenter Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180469
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    - Vista Media Center unwanted folders After installing SP1 Media Center started listing the memory card reader slots as 4 drives in both the Video and Pictures libraries. These were never configured to be monitored in either MC or WMP and they weren't being listed in Media Center before SP1 was installed. Is there any way to remove these entries, and other root folders that sometimes show up, from the folders list in the library? Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180468
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    - Windows Movie Maker I have created a movie in Movie Maker 5.1 and when I try to save it as a movie in higher quality/size, it saves just like normal... gives me the estimated time, etc. and says it is finished, but when I view the movie, it plays for a while and then gets "stuck" on a picture and stays there while the music continues in the background. I have tried various saving options and the only ones that it will save the entire movie on are very small and the video quality is very bad. In all the different saves I have tried, it gets stuck on a different picture each time so I know it is not a particular picture that is the problem. Can anyone help or give me some advise? -- C3 Laura Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180465
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    - Choppy video in MSE internet tv full screen how can i eliminate choppy video when playing internet tv? DVD's play fine, a few stations play fine, but most are choppy when full screen. Is there an optimum resolution? I've got a dell 24" flat panel running nvidia GeForce 8800GT w/ 256M of video ram & 3G of memory. Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180456
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    - BDA driver and MS Windows MCE Hello, I have a problem with developing BDA driver for MS MCE. First thing I did was to compile a BDA sample from MS DDK. This sample works in MS XP perfectly, but when I try to use this BDA driver in MCE it doesn't work I'm trying to run Media Center in MCE and this application can't find this BDA sample driver to receive TV. Can anybody help me to understand my problem? Thanks. Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180453
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    - Keyboard shortcut to Search (TV) Probably an obvious one, but is there a keyboard shortcut combination to 'Search'? I find the 'Search' option for the TV+Movies category extremely useful (in Media Center on Vista Home Premium) but the best I can currently come up with is Ctrl-O {Alt+Winkey+Enter} {right arrow 4 times} {Enter} which isn't particularly rememberable or user-friendly. Any improvements on that? -- Jon Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180452
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    - How to save the program guide file... Hi, I changed the default sequence of all my TV channels.. How can I restore the same sequence if I move to another PC, or have to restore MC from scratch I have Vista ultimate, but in all Ehome folders and registry, I cannot see where the file is stored.. Can you help? -- Intel E8400 C2D 3.0 GForce 8600 GTS 512 2GB DDR2 6400 WD 80GB Vista Ultimate (danish) Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180450
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    - Colour ajustment I view XP Media Centre 2005 through a standard CRT PAL TV or a 720P projector. Up until I got the HTPC I watched the TV with a digital tuner signal (UK Freeview) via a SCART plug. When using the HTPC with Media centre it goes through S Video to the TV or projector. The picture looks fine on both from the digital receiver but is far too intensely coloured from the PC but I can't find any way of adjusting the intensity of the colour from within Media centre. I have tried a couple of the different "Color Profiles" available on the PC but they don't seem to make enough of a difference. It is more than somewhat annoying to look at this very unrealistic picture. Is there anyway to adjust the colour to be more realistic within Media centre or the PC? TIA Slatts Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180429
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    - OE emails remain in Out folder .... and will not move to Sent folder. Recipients report the emails are being sent multiple times even though I have not pressed send/receive that many times. I noted a large number of emails in the Sent folder (3400+ and have that down to about 2700 to make sure there is room in the folder to receive emails from the Out folder. Your help is appreciated, Thanks. Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180427
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    - Upgrade from 2004 to 2005 I would very much like to be able to install Windows Media Player 11 on my PC (so I can watch streaming movies from Netflix on the new monitor I just bought). Unfortunately WMP 11 does not work on WinXP MCE 2004. The manufacturer of my PC tells me there is nothing they can do to upgrade my system to MCE 2005 (and that I should just buy a new PC). However, I have seen references on this site to upgrading from MCE 2004 to MCE 2005. Can anyone shed some light on this apparent contradiction? And if one can upgrade from 2004 to 2005, how is that done? Would a product recovery disc do it (meaning, could I use a recover disc for WinXP MCE 2005 to convert my operating system from 2004 to 2005)? Thanks, Rob. Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180425
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    - Editing recorded TV? I am using Windows Media Center with Vista Home Premium and a Hauppauge TV card. The recorded TV is saved with file format [name.dvr-ms]. Is there any way that I can edit this recorded TV with Pinnacle Studio v11? If not what are the options for editing recorded TV? Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180424
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    - How do we stop the echo in WLM 8.5 when teleconferencing? Ever since Messenger was upgraded many of us have experienced a nasty echo that makes using the conferencing feature impossible. This did not used to be, and simply using headphones is not the answer, so please don't even suggest it. This has to be a bug in Windows Live Messenger 8.5, and possibly 8.1. I did not experience this echo in previous versions, so I'm pretty sure it is not a hardware issue. What needs to be fixed? We have tried all settings and nothing stops it. Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180420
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    - ownership issue Please help! I had my computer in safe mode and was logged in as administrator. I was having trouble accessing the history folder in local settings so i took ownership of the folder, now i can access it but now my computer isnt recording the history. there is nothing in the folder and when i view it with the internet up there is nothing there not even icons for the date. normally i would just use system restore but for some reason it was turned off. Is there a way to reverse what i did so it will start recording the history again? -- dawmab Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180419
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    - Suddendly issue with Program Guide Update.. Hi, suddendly I cannot longer update the Program Guide, as I could since the install of Vista. I have tried everything, my ADSL is fine, but I got an error code 4 "could not establish a connection" I can see all TV program and all Media Center works fine, except updating the Grogran Guide. Even when I try to reconfigure the internet connection in MC Vista Ultimate, it still says that the connection does not work. My firewall is off and nothing should prevent this feature to work like it always did. Can you help me please. I have cable TV with a Pinnacle Vista card which works perfectly. Thanks in advance -- Intel E8400 C2D 3.0 GForce 8600 GTS 512 2GB DDR2 6400 WD 80GB Vista Ultimate (danish) Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180416
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    - Recording Website Videos and Sound Bytes Can the Media Center or Media Player be used to record sound bytes or videos as they play? Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180412
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    - XP Media Center 2005 Away Mode Ok, so I may be posting in the wrong forum, but I could not find a Media Center specific group. I am running XP Media Center 2005 w/ all windows and driver updates, on a Dell Dimension E520, 2.66 GHZ Dual-core Pentium D, 1 GB RAM 2 internal SATA 250 GB/300 GB hard drives. GeForce 7300 LE 256 MB vid card (which is strangely shown pretty much everywhere in the system as having 512 MB though??) Anyhow, I reinstalled Windows some time ago with the CD instead of the factory image restore from the hidden partition. No problems, everything installed, working properly, and showing properly (except the vid card's memory) Quite a few months later bought the 300 GB drive to install, and after installation I noticed an unknown device in device manager. The hard drive is installed and working properly at this point, after some testing etc. the unknown device is definitely NOT the hard drive. I checked the properties of the unknown device checked out and searched the hardware strings on the details tab, and have come up with it's the Media Center Away Mode driver. From what I can tell searching, I can literally find nothing fruitful about how to fix this problem with the away mode driver. There is no away mode tab in Power Options either. I don't necessarily need the functionality of away mode, but I would like to get rid of this annoying entry in my device manager without uninstalling or disabling it. Anyone have any ideas or suggestions that don't consist of disabling/uninstalling? Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180404
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    - Why is Media Ctr remote full screen? Recently purchased HP Media Ctr (MC) PC with Vista Home Premium on it with a TV Tuner/FM Radio card. It also came with a Media Ctr Remote. The sticker on inside of remote's battery door says Model TSGH-IR01 SW rev.A How do I get the remote to open or leave the MC window in a small window in lower right corner of screen, which is where I have it set to open when I open/operate MC commands with the mouse? If I open the MC with the remote (say the Radio) it always opens full screen! Even if I open the MC in TV mode by mouse but then want to change to Radio mode using remote the MC goes to full screen. Is there a way to "shrink" the full screen to the my normal small window using some remote button? Is there some type of operational manual for this remote? There is nothing in the MC's on screen Help about the remote. Thanks for any help/guidance ...... Rick Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180402
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    - Downloadable copy of Win XP ver. 2002 SP2 I have my serial number but do not have the win xp cd any longer. is there a downloadable copy avialable? thanks Ed Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180400
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    - Computer Rebooting Automatically Hello, My computer has started rebooting itself over the last month, and it's been getting more frequent. It seems to happen when a decent load is applied. I thought it may have been a heat issue, but I got it to restart even when a fan was blowing into the tower. I have updated the drivers that I could, voltages seem to be fine, and have recently formatted and reinstalled Windows. Another forum has recommended running memtest86, which I will do as soon as I can, but I have swapped 3 different memory sticks, and it happens with each. Here is the error code for the most recent event: Error code 1000008e, parameter1 c0000005, parameter2 00000000, parameter3 b7377870, parameter4 00000000. I'm having difficulty finding the definition for this, so could someone help with that as well? Thanks! Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180389
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    - Medion Laptop and watching TV Hi, As a real newbie to Vista, I have just bought a Medion Laptop with a DVB-T Tuner Express Card54, and Digital Aerial. I have tried many times to set up the tuner to watch TV but don't seem to get anywhere. I am not an experienced computer whizz, but neither am I a complete novice. I live in the mountains of Sth West Wales, UK, and we don't get digital TV as we can't get a good Ch 5 signal and we get really bad recetion on Analogue reception (we have to pay for Sky to even get a decent picture). So I assume that is why I can't get Digital on the Laptop? I am wondering if I should be able to get Analogue TV using this TV Card? I have tried to connect my Analogue roof aerial to the laptop, but still no TV. I have tried to get Digital TV at my mother-in-laws house but still no joy (she is in an area that can get digital). I can understand that I may not be able to get digital here where I live, but can't understand why I can't get anything in an are where I know that you can get it. I suppose I just want to know really if the TV Card is working as it is a new laptop, but don't know what else to do. Any advice will be gratefully received. Regards, Dalavon. Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180388
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    - record to external hard drive I have installed an external hard drive and mapped it with a drive letter in windows explorer. I read several post on using an external hard drive but have not been able to get Media Center to record directly to the external drive. I was able to list the drive in the WatchedFolders string in registry but not able to list the external drive in the RecordPath string. Is there a precise way to list the external drive? The choice in the settings portion of Media Center/Recorder Storage has a +/- but does not function since only the C path is listed Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180383
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    - Choppy Audio/Video HELLPP! So I've had my Gateway dual-core for a year or so now, but even fresh out of the box from Costco, video is super choppy. Unwatchable. Audio CDs same thing. Skips everytime the light on the drive blinks. However, it only happens on audio or video FROM CD or DVD. Audio/Video from tv or saved on the cpu play fine. Hard to call it a media center if I can't play any CDs or DVDs. This unit came with other players like "PowerDVD" and "DVD Solution", etc. Could these be the problem? Is it the drive itself? Hopefully just a simple toggle somewhere? BTW, I have over 100 GB of free space; don't think that is an issue. SOMEBODY SAVE ME BEFORE I THROW THE DAMN THING OUT THE WINDOW! Thanks... Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180376
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    - MCE not working at all, XP Patch to blame? My MCE has been down for quite a while. Most of the functions and programs work but the MCE part does not. I can't even open The MCE When I try to have my XBOX connect as an extender, it doesn't work anymore. It says something about not finding the MCE. I've tried checking which services are running and not running but cannot find what is wrong. I may have downloaded an XP patch (update) and updated. Restoring has not worked. Could an XP (non-MCE) patch have messed this up? Help -- Sony R series RA810G, 3.4 GHz P4, 1GB Ram, 2x250 SATA HDDs, ATi HDTV Wonder, DVD DL, Win MCE 2005 Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180375
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    - Where can I get Win XP media center edition 2004 software I have a refurbished machine that has crashed and I need to reinstall the OS. this machine did not come with a disk nor did it have a restore option. I have a valid lisence but where can I download the software? Thanks for the help Todd Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180369
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    - error code 0x8000ffff backup and restore stopped working 1 mth after purchase, get catastophic error 0x8000ffff, does anyone know how to fix this problem? -- johnfish Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180368
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    - Best practices for using media center on a PC/TV combination setti Question: While I can "make it work", I am not happy with the usability aspects of my setting and I am asking the community to show me the best way to get the best experience overall from my media center PC. Setup: 1. I got a m9100t (HP) with ATSC-NTSC TV tuner with PVR + remote, and a 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT, TV-out, DVI-I, HDMI 2. I have Wall Antenna to splitter, one end to PC one end to TV 3. I have HDMI from PC to TV 4. I have DVI-VGA to PC monitor 5. I have 35mm audio from PC to Monitor speaker 6. I have Digital audio from PC to Receiver Problems: Video: The video can be set so that I have both monitors "cloned", or each one individually configured and one is primary and one is secondary. Cloned is out because then both need to have the same resolution, so that is not good. But if I set the PC as primary and TV as secondary, then I need to "drag" the media center from the PC screen to the TV. I guess that is ok, but will I always have to drag that thing back an forth? The real thing I am looking for is, is there an easy and fast way to switch PC and TV like you can in a laptop (alt F5). It seems very hard to go to the screen properties and configure it from there if I want to change primary and secondary. Why do I change primary and secondary? for example, if I run picassa, and I in picassa run the slideshow, it will always run on the primary screen, so even if I drag picasa to the TV, the slide show will open on the PC!!!! Sound: It seems the sound configuration has a "default" defined. So when the default is the PC speakers, the audio goes there even if I play media center or anything for that matter on the PC monitor or on the TV. the only way I manged to hear the audio on my receiver was to change the default to the digital out. But BTW, that change does nothing (audio still comes from the monitor) until you close and re open media center (or WMP). I expected it to either play both audio streams from both outputs, or at least give me a EASY way to switch... if this was not clear, please ask me for more info. Thanks, I am excited to get this working even better!! Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180367
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    - Windows xp media center window won't open When I click on the media center button, I get sound but, no window. I tried system restore but, it didn't work. How do I reinstall the media center? I think this might solve the problem.Media center was preinstalled when I bought the computer and It didn't come with a reinstall cd. Can anyone help me? Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180357
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    - New Software in Set Top Box makes my IR bug emit a ZERO 1st after reprograming it. How to undo ZERO? MCE 2005 MVPs? I have a Dell 9150 MCE 2005 XP Pro .. been using, building, computers since 1983... Time Warner Cable just CHANGED the software for my STB~! SO, I had to redo the setup to get MCE 2005 to recognize it. Now, the IR bug transmits a ZERO before the Channel Number. This is ignored when the channel number has up to 3 digits BUT I have a FOUR Digit Channel Span. And it totally confuses the STB with 4 digit numbers. The ZERO is transmitted first, then there is a pause and then the rest of the numbers are transmitted. I get these results through the "auto" setup.. S-Video in, etc... I TRIED the manual setup but it crashes. I have posted a registry patch which puts MCE 2005 directly into Dolby 5.1 mode. Many people complained setting soundcards crashes the Setup Prg in MCE 2005. Is there a reg patch to get it to stop prefacing my Channel Numbers with a ZERO in MCE 2005? Gonna search the registry myself but MVP's??????? -- peace :) br. patrick Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180356
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    - Hi Def wmv clips My short hi def home movies play fine on my P4 machine using XP MCE. Media center and MP 10 both play them. But I bought a new desktop (because I was having trouble editing and rendering my longer hd movies with Pinnacle Studio). The new computer won't even play the short hd movies using the Vista MC or MP11. They're real jerky and the sound doesn't sync. The new specs: HP d4999t with Intel core 2 quad Q6700 @ 2.66GHz and 4MB ram running Vista home premium 32 bit. NVidia GeForce 8600GT with 512MB connected with HDMI to a Vizio 37" lcd tv. This problem continues even after I installed Vista SP1 today. Earlier I was flamed on an NVidia newsgroup for suggesting it was the card. Someone said it must be a missing codec. But I've heard of terrible problems installing codecs on Vista computers. Any ideas? I haven't started tweaking Vista per http://www.tweakguides.com/TGTC.html or http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/81176-speed-up-performance-vista.html or http://vista-tricks-tips.blogspot.com/ Since I got the vista computer, I've been trying to get rid of the bloatware and reduce the number of scheduled tasks (19 of them but I can't figure out what half of them are) because they always interrupt my tv recordings with MC. If I disable the task scheduler only then will it record a tv program every time without interruption. I'm also still trying to figure out which processes I can close or kill (without causing a computer shutdown) out of the several dozen that run on startup, so that I will be able to edit and render movies when my Pinnacle Studio 11 that I ordered on 2/28 finally gets here. I guess I digressed or went on a tangent or something. For now I just want to know if anyone knows how to smoothly run a windows media (.wmv) file with 1440 x 1080 dimensions and a 5234 kbps bit rate in Vista MC or MP11. Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180347
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    - Remote Desktop Media center control Hello, I have a vista ultimate media center pc in my living room with all of my media on it. It is connected to a stereo that plays throughout the entire house. I have a laptop with vista ultimate and have tried to remote desktop login to the media center to allow me to change music and such from any location in the house (or by the pool). It seems that media center will stop and play directly on the laptop. Is it possible to control the media pc music selection remotely with the music still playing on the host pc? Thanks for any help. Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180346
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    - Sharing a TV tuner Is there a way to share a TV tuner between two Vista PCs? Possibly by using Media Extender functionality? I have a ATI PCI TV Wonder and Vista Ultimate on one PC and no tuner and Vista Home Premium on the other. Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180342
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    - Digital SubChannels Does anyone know when MS (or someone) will provide digital TV subchannel listings. All the programs I want to record are on the subchannels. e.g. 58.3 in the LA area. All educational programming that runs late at night. If MS won't, then what can I use. Would the native Pinnacle (HD TV USB) or Haughpauge (HD TV USB) viewer work? I have had many crashes with the Pinnacle Viewer. No, manually setting the time is not an option since things move around too much. Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180337
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    - media center deleted can i reinstall safely? Hi i have lost windows media center... funny huh.. i have used the search tool but no joy.. if i reinstall vista will i lose data...? is that a safe option any help advice or location to search....?? please help cheers plz email me witha response or suggestion.. Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180336
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    - Weird Decoder Error problem - please help :( Hi, First off, this isn't the usual noob issue of not having any MPEG2 decoders installed! :) Basically, I have a freshly reinstalled machine on which I'm using the latest NVidia Purevideo decoders. Live TV plays fine, as do recorded programmes. The issue I have is that, if I'm watching a recorded programme and press the Live TV button, I get the dreaded Decoder Error screen and the only way I can then watch live TV again is if I close the MCE interface and reopen it. If, however, whilst watching a recorded programme, I click the Guide button and then immediately click OK, all is fine, despite this doing exactly the same as pressing the Live TV button. Essentially, it's ONLY the Live TV button on the remote which causes the error to appear - weird or what! I also get this if I'm watching xvid/divx material via My Videos and a third party decoder such as xvid or ffdshow. I've also seen the error when using ffdshow for mpeg2 material with the nvidia decoders uninstalled (ffdshow does work despite the checkup gizmo saying otherwise) which leads me to believe it's nothing to do with the nvidia decoders per se but rather an internal MCE issue. Anyone got any ideas? System spec is: C2D E8400, 2GB DDR2, ATI 3650 with Cat8.3 Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180335
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    - media center error running wdos xp sp-3 , mce, 2005, media center will show tv program for up to 5 minutes then lock up...have to go to task manager to close it...error msg pops up... szAppName : ehrecvr.exe szAppver : 5.1.2715.3011 szModname : wmvdmoe.dll szmodver : 7.0.0.1917 offset : 00001d4f then pop up continues delivering itself about one every two minutes. so i cannot do anything else either...can someone help me with this? I have upgraded the driver and checked for all recent upgrades and downloads and I got rid of all automatic updates ive had in last two weeks....ive run spybot and adaware and nortons for viruses , all show clean. Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180332
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    - I thought this newsgroup was for Win XP MCE About half the postings are for Vista's Media center. I would be nice if people would use the appropriate discussion group so we would not get all kind of Vista's issues in this newsgroup... Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180320
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    - Windows Media Centre Hi Folks I would like to record FM radio via media centre I have internet connection broardband and have checked the connection and configured it via media centre but when I go to online media and explore select music and radio I get "Content not available" where am I going wrong, appreciate advice. Tom Tag: Lost media center Tag: 180319

Need some help? It seems as though I have lost my media center icon or for
that matter I canâ??t find the application on any of my hard drives either, I
can see that it has been licensed to me on the media center home page but can
not find it anywhere on my computer. Any ideas? I am using Windows Vista
ultimate with SP1 installed.

Jim

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Re: Lost media center by Doug

Doug
Sat Mar 22 08:46:04 PDT 2008

Look in C:\Windows\ehome and create a shortcut to ehShell.exe

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"J. Wright" <JWright@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:76B4D255-873E-424F-9BE4-E8FFF74D92F5@microsoft.com...
> Need some help? It seems as though I have lost my media center icon or for
> that matter I canâ??t find the application on any of my hard drives either,
> I
> can see that it has been licensed to me on the media center home page but
> can
> not find it anywhere on my computer. Any ideas? I am using Windows Vista
> ultimate with SP1 installed.
>
> Jim
>

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