Don
Sun May 04 04:36:10 PDT 2008
Sweet, that appears to have worked!
While I don't use Media Center, thought I would try the fix first, by
deleting the mediacenterdatastore. The file showed, it had been modified on
4/11, although I don't know how as I do not really use Media Center.
I can now open, and navigate around in Media Center, without it closing
immediately.
I suspect I will no longer get those annoying " windows media update manager
has stopped working" messages now too, although time will tell.
Many thanks for the help!
--
Don
"Bender" <imnotgivingmynametoa@machine.net> wrote in message
news:ud3lpddrIHA.3940@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> See
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947464
>
> Most of what it says follows... (You might want to do the WORKAROUND
> section since you say you don't use Media Center)
>
> CAUSE
> This problem occurs if the Windows Media Center update process
> (Mcupdate.exe) cannot access the Windows Media Center data store. You may
> experience this problem if the data store is damaged. The Mcupdate.exe
> process is a scheduled task that runs two times every day. If this
> scheduled task cannot access the data store, the Mcupdate.exe process
> crashes.
>
>
> RESOLUTION
> To resolve this problem, try to rebuild the Media Center data store. To do
> this, follow these steps:1. Exit any running instance of Windows Media
> Center.
> 2. Delete the following file:
> %SYSTEMDRIVE%\ProgramData\Microsoft\eHome\mediaCenterDataStore.db
> To do this, follow these steps:a. Click Start, type run in the Start
> Search box, and then click Run in the Programs list.
>
> If you are prompted for an administrator password or for confirmation,
> type the password, or click Continue.
> b. In the Open box, type %systemdrive%\programdata\microsoft\ehome, and
> then click OK.
> c. In the details pane, right-click mediacenterdatastore.db, and then
> click Delete.
> d. Click Yes to confirm that you want to move the Mediacenterdatastore.db
> file to the Recycle Bin.
>
> 3. Start Windows Media Center.
>
>
> WORKAROUND
> To work around this problem if you do not use Windows Media Center, cancel
> the Mcupdate.exe scheduled task. To do this, follow these steps:1. Click
> Start, type task scheduler in the Start Search box, and then click Task
> Scheduler in the Programs list.
>
> If you are prompted for an administrator password or for confirmation,
> type the password, or click Continue.
> 2. In the navigation pane, expand Task Scheduler Library, expand
> Microsoft, expand Windows, and then click Media Center.
> 3. In the details pane, right-click mcupdate, and then click Disable.
>
>
> "Don" <burnettedclothes@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:B9ED0856-F50B-4AF7-A1C2-927B8F3F5FA2@microsoft.com...
>> Hey gang,
>>
>> I have been getting messages, even without Media Center open, that the "
>> Windows Media Update has stopped working ". When I choose to check online
>> for a solution, I do not get any feedback.
>>
>> So I thought I would open Media Center, to see if I could see something
>> there in the options that might clue me in. After opening Media Center
>> and starting to navigate through it, it closes immediately, due to a
>> problem. It does this as soon as I start clicking on things within Media
>> Center, just won't stay open.
>>
>> I tried a google search, and about all I saw on repairing Media Center,
>> was running sfc /scannow from an elevated command prompt. I tried this,
>> and it ran and did not find any damaged files.
>>
>> Any ideas, on what I might could do to repair this? I really don't use
>> Media Center, but it is annoying me more than anything, that it does not
>> work, at this point.
>>
>> Thanks for any feedback here,
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Don
>>
>>
>>