When playing a DVD movie, the pause control seems to work, but always when I
come back from the interruption, the movie is aleady playing again. That is,
the pause doesn't stay paused! The movie starts up by itself. I have Vista
home premium and Media Center reports version 6.0.600.2082

Re: Media Center pause control won't stay paused by dicko

dicko
Mon Jun 30 05:56:44 PDT 2008


On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:43:03 -0700, Russ
<Russ@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>When playing a DVD movie, the pause control seems to work, but always when I
>come back from the interruption, the movie is aleady playing again. That is,
>the pause doesn't stay paused! The movie starts up by itself. I have Vista
>home premium and Media Center reports version 6.0.600.2082

Uninstall the June update, KB950126. Its horribly broken. It also
unpauses when you min/maximize the video window, and it shows a black
screen at the end of a recording.

-dickm

Re: Media Center pause control won't stay paused by Russ

Russ
Fri Jul 04 06:21:01 PDT 2008

Thanks, that did fix the pause function. However, though I had told Vista
not to install updates automatically (in order to keep the offending update
at bay) it re-installed it today. Arrgh! Also, the Office update reinstalled
the "Groove monitor" in my startup registry. So I removed it AGAIN. Do you
ever get the feeling Microsoft thinks, "These poor, ignorant users- we must
change their computer settings for them."

"dicko" wrote:

>
> On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:43:03 -0700, Russ
> <Russ@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >When playing a DVD movie, the pause control seems to work, but always when I
> >come back from the interruption, the movie is aleady playing again. That is,
> >the pause doesn't stay paused! The movie starts up by itself. I have Vista
> >home premium and Media Center reports version 6.0.600.2082
>
> Uninstall the June update, KB950126. Its horribly broken. It also
> unpauses when you min/maximize the video window, and it shows a black
> screen at the end of a recording.
>
> -dickm
>

Re: Media Center pause control won't stay paused by CSM1

CSM1
Fri Jul 04 06:46:57 PDT 2008

"Russ" <Russ@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7F4038C4-E1F0-474F-9FBD-65B59E8F76D0@microsoft.com...
> Thanks, that did fix the pause function. However, though I had told Vista
> not to install updates automatically (in order to keep the offending
> update
> at bay) it re-installed it today. Arrgh! Also, the Office update
> reinstalled
> the "Groove monitor" in my startup registry. So I removed it AGAIN. Do
> you
> ever get the feeling Microsoft thinks, "These poor, ignorant users- we
> must
> change their computer settings for them."
>

Seems pretty evident that Microsoft does not think users are very smart.
Plus Microsoft is very good at hiding bad practices (theirs) from users.

Such as not allowing users to playback protected programs that we recorded,
before a computer crash.

Many times you can not play protected content without jumping through a lot
of hoops, and then you may never play those files again.

Microsoft is over zealous with enforcing the DRM.

And what about not allowing recording and playing HD content from sources
other that Off the Air? (Yeah, I know about CableCard).
--
CSM1
http://www.carlmcmillan.com
--

> "dicko" wrote:
>
>>
>> On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:43:03 -0700, Russ
>> <Russ@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>>
>> >When playing a DVD movie, the pause control seems to work, but always
>> >when I
>> >come back from the interruption, the movie is aleady playing again. That
>> >is,
>> >the pause doesn't stay paused! The movie starts up by itself. I have
>> >Vista
>> >home premium and Media Center reports version 6.0.600.2082
>>
>> Uninstall the June update, KB950126. Its horribly broken. It also
>> unpauses when you min/maximize the video window, and it shows a black
>> screen at the end of a recording.
>>
>> -dickm
>>