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    - TV Tuner My Windows Media Center was successfully recording my television shows for several months. Recently it stopped recording and the message I got was "TUNER NOT AVAILABLE The tuner is currently in use by another application or is not working. Please close all other applications, restart Windows Media Center, and try again." I have done this several times and the same message reappears. I don't know if another program is interferring with the Media Center. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank you Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182285
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    - windows media player error when reading DVD I get the following error message when trying to play a DVD using Windows Media Player: The exception Illegal Instruction An attempt was made to execute an illegal instruction. (0xc000001d) occured in the application at location 0x1d1c4ba5. How do I fix this? -- Bruce Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182284
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    - Edit video file summary in VMC Hello MC community, Has anyone figured out how to edit video summary information for AVI files in VMC? More specifically, I have a handful of AVI files on my MC computer. I want to be able to right-click on the files through VMC and view summary information. Is there any way to add info into that field? It's not really that convenient to create super-long filenames that are more descriptive than a simple title. Thanks! Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182278
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    - composite channel on media center?? Not sure why it doesn't post on at the first time i'll repost it again. I have a PS2, TV tuner, Vista media center How do it make it work !? I did the channel scanning thing but it doesn't pick up any channel, however when i do it manuelly i do able to choose composite which has signals from my ps2. But when I hit next, it says i don't have some hardward so i've been forced to go back. I turn on live tv. i ahve some channel going (i have no cabel so all i see is dust) but how do i switch to composite channel to play my PS2. I do have seen there are signals in the little preview window when i was doing the scan. but how come i couldn't get to it? Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182277
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    - no audio after switch from Vista to XP Recently reverted from Vista to XP MC. All is working fine, but yesterday wanted to play an mwv and discovered there is no audio. There is no volume control icon in the taskbar at bottom right, either. Windows beeps are working so the speakers are fine. Any idea what may be going on? Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182267
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    - jessica Check out our new site! Sexy Hair is cool, hip and edgy with distinguished brand names including Big Sexy Hair, Short Sexy, Straight Sexy Hair, Healthy Sexy ... ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ http://www.freewebs.com/piratradi ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182265
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    - kaon media set top box not listed in vista mce hello all, since norway is passing though only digital channels we all had to get a set top box,, the main provider is get www.get.no unfortunately when seting up mce and trying to find set top box brand i cannot find this anywhere, what can i do ? Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182241
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    - Can hear but not view AVI files Had no problem until this week, now can only hear AVI files, can't view. Any ideas? Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182230
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    - deactivate user account Is it possible in XP home to deactivate an account for a period of time, in order to later reactivate it. I want to do this in order only to have one active account thereby bypassing the account selection at boot time. thanks for any ideas, Knud Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182228
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    - upload music information to Internet Database How do I upload my music information to an online database? Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182223
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    - Xbox 360 extender not found Hi All - I am having a peculiar challenge setting up MCE with my 360. I am running 2 media centre pc's (one laptop and one desktop) on the same network as the xbox 360. The pc's are both wireless but the xbox is wired to a netgear rangemax router. Both pc's can see the xbox (with sharing on) and the pc's can see each other fine. The xbox was able to connect adn run media centre from the laptop (which is not what I wanted) but not the desktop. I have succesfully deleted the laptop from the xbox computer list, and switched it off, but the xbox will now not recognise the desktop on the network and hence Media center on the desktop cannot find nor add the extender. Any hints or suggestions much appreciated Brenden Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182222
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    - downloadhost Everytime I try to download an update or install a program I get a notice saying "widows cannot open file MSND downloadhost windows needs to know what program created it" even when its a windows update. Then it says I can go on the web to a site to fix it, and I try that, but I end up with the same message. So I'm going in circles. Dell says they want to wipe the computer clean, but that sounds like a big headache to me. Is ther another way to fix it? Thanks Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182203
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    - DVB-T (Freeview) Tuning in New Zealand My Vista MCE cannot find any digital channels when I try to tune it in. It finds analogue channels okay. Tuner card is hybrid Hauppauge HVR-1300. Card is Vista compatible. Also, other 3rd part software (DVBviewer) can find channel okay - so I think it is Vista issue. Is this a problem peculiar to NZ becuase our DVB_T service is HD (using MPEG-4)? I do have a h.264 codec in my system (via PowerDVD 7 Ultra). Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182202
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    - Default Printers in Windows XP I am trying to fing out if is possible to set a default printer for a specific program that is different to my default system printer. I use a mix of network and non network printers and I need to try and set up different default printers in different applications and programs on my computer. Is this possible?????? -- Thanks Allen Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182195
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    - Media Center missing components Help I installed the web guide software on my 64bit Vista PC, it work for about 20 minutes gave an error then once I rebooted Media Center could not find any recorded shows and reports missing or corrupt componants Windows Media Center component registration may have failed. I tried rerunning the setup within Media Center but eshell reports a failure in the application log. I have also tried doing a Restore point and that doesn't seem to fix it. So how do you reinstalled Media Center or register the missing componants, it would be nice if it was on the add remove list. Thanks Mike... Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182192
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    - Unable to select signal ? Help ! I'm using 2 computers with exactly the same version of Vista Ultimate, one is a very old computer using for testing purpose and the other a new one. I've buy a pinnacle TV tuner stick Hybride. During the configuration on MediaCenter after having select country, the old pc ask for which signal I want tu use : Cable, Satellite or Antenna. I have to select Cable and It find all channels. On the new one it doesn't ask me and select Antenna (analog) by default so I get only 3 channels.... How can I force asking me the signal... I've lost some hours to restart the configuration, but always the same... Thanks for the help -- Gaelle Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182186
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    - Windows Backup Hello. I need to backup some important data on a Windows XP machine. The data will be in use (open) during the backup. Is windows backup capable of backing up data that is in use without corrupting it? I guess I'm asking if it has some sort of open file technology. I don't want to perform a backup on open data and find that the data gets corrupted. Thanks in advance! Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182184
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    - Vista Media Center Schedule not working I have a new Vista PC. The Hauppaugge card works fine for view live TV. I can change channels and all seems fine. But, I cannot get the scheduled recording to work. I use the guide and find somthing to record and set it up to record. It looks like it should work. But, the scheduled recording just does not do anything. There is no error. I have tried this with Media Center running, I have tried it with Media Center not running. It seems that the schedule is not doing anyting at all. Any ideas on how to make the schedule work? Thanks, JC Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182182
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    - Group Policy security and system shut down! Hello, My hard drive failed yesterday. I got a message on the startup screen saying to back it up and replace it. I purchased a new drive and I backed up the old one today. I used Acronis True Image. I got some errors during backup and I had to reset the Admin and user passwords because Windows did not recognize the old passwords. I used a program called "Offline NT Password & Registry Editor". When going into users accounts to create new passwords for Admin and users I get a shutdown error, the error window states; ================================== "This shutdown was initiated by NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. System will shut down in 60 secs. C:\WINDOWSystem32\Isses.exe terminated unexpectedly..." "with code -1073741819" (on most instances) "with code -1 (on other instances)" ===================================== When I try to reset the passwords through Local policies I receive a little massage, "The settings that apply to this machine could not be determined. The error returned when trying to receive these settings from the local security policy database (%windir%\security\database\secedit.sdb) was: The parameter is incorrect. All local security settings will be displayed, but no indication will be given as to whether or not a give security setting is defined by Group Policy. Any local security settings modified through this user Interface may subsequently be overwritten by domain -level policies." Can this be fixed? Any help is greatly appreciated Thank you. P.S. I am running Windows Media Center 2005. Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182173
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    - Xbox 360 cannot see my network drives on WHS I have yet to find a solution to this. I have all my movies and music on my WHS. When i try to access them from XBox360 through media center, it cannot see them. The music is in the default music folder, which has Guest read access. The movies are in a folder called Movies which also has guest read access. When i browse to music on media center it cannot see the sared folders. When i try to play a movie through My Movies 2, it disaplys the path of the movie, ok but if i try to play it, media complains with "path not found". Has anyone suceeded here? Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182171
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    - Partitioning ? Hello, I have XP on my C drive and i have another spare 200GB HD attached internally to the PC, is shows up as drive S. What i'm wanting to know is: I have some backup files on the spare S drive (about 150GB worth), leaving 50GB spare on it. 1) Can i put a partition on spare drive S without losing the 150GB worth of backup files i already have on there ? (so it will become 160GB (backup) / 40GB partitioned) 2) There is 150GB worth of backup, so if i partition it to 160GB (backup stuff) and 40GB spare, can i then put Windows Vista on the partitioned 40GB bit of the HD and choose my operating system on startup ? ie. have a choice on start up whether to go into XP or Vista ? 3) If i later decide i want more than the 40GB partitioned on the Vista Partition, can i move all the backup (150GB) stuff to a different HD and then repartition to say 100GB / 100GB without losing Vista ? Best Regards, Andrew Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182167
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    - DVD Playback I have been getting conflicting comments on this problem. Which DVD type and manufacturer do I use to be able to not only burn, but playback on a stand alone dvd player. The latest I was told to use was Memorex DVD-RW. I can burn easy enough but will only play back on the computer, not any other dvd player. I am using an XPS 400 with Windows XP Media Center 2005. If someone has a definitive answer to this problem I would be greatly appreciative. Thank for any and all help. Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182162
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    - Media Center / Photo Printing I have noticed that when printing photos from within the Media Center UI the quality is significantly poorer when compared to the same photo printed directly out of Windows. Is there any way to resolve this? I have noticed in other forums that this problem seems to go all the way back to earlier versions of MCE. Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182152
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    - "SidebySide" errors in Event Log When I use my HP G4050 scanner on my Win XP Media Centre PC I get the above errors in the System Event Log, two entries for Event ID 59 and one for Event Id 32. Anyone got any advice or ideas? Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182149
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    - Cant burn recorded show ? I recorded am episode of the Sopranos on A&E ( doesn't day copy protected anywhere) ( done this many times before ) and when I go to burn a DVD to watch in the next room it doesn't get past 1% yet I can watch it on the PC. I'm wondering if this show in particular wont allow burning? Other episodes have allowed it and weren't labeled Copy Protected . Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182145
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    - finalizing photo burns I am new to burning photos onto cds to share with others. I have XP MC, but did not use MC to burn the photos. I just sent them to my DVD/CD drive and they burned just fine. The photos are there because I checked the disks after burning. My question is, will the cds be readable, say for a slideshow, on other computers? In other words, are the cds finalized? Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182144
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    - windows folder opens on startup does anyone know why my 'windows folder' has started opening automatically upon startup? (I guess everyone but me knows!!!). Not a great problem, but annoying. -- stan Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182143
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    - RUNDLL ERROR I have this error message coming up : RUNDLL : c:/windows/system32/nyhidsae.dll Running on XP2. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182141
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    - Recovering Safe mode Hi, Recently My PC was infected by virus/spyware.I have Bitdefender Total Security 2008 which deleted the virus but after that i could not boot into safe mode(normal mode is still working good and safe mode was working before bitdefender deleted it) I am not sure what happened. Whenever i try to get into safe mode, it loads all the drivers and shows the black screen with "safemode" letters on each corner of the screen but doesnt beyond that.(no errors/warnings) My question is how can i debug what is happening after drivers loaded?how can i recover the safe mode? I also have the ISO of UBCD4Win to repair. My PC config is WinXP Professional with SP3(RC) Bitdefender Total security 2008 AVG Free Antivirus 8.0 -- Guhan Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182140
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    - media center slow with application failure message I have windows vista home premimum with media center that up untill now i use a lot to record tv. have never had problem in past but all of a suden the last couple of weeks, my recordings fail and when i try to use guide or recorded ty windows I get a window that is headed , (Application failure) With the following message. Acritical windows media center process has failed please restart the computer and try again. If problem persists contact your hardware manufacture for assistance. medai center also runns slow and fails at times so slow that I can not use guide or set up recordings HELP"""" thanks JT Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182133
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    - i have no sound i reinstalled windows xp and cant get any sound what do i do about this? Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182132
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    - CPU Usage spiking high Hello! As of a couple of weeks ago, my computer has been running very slowly. Loading webpages takes about 15 secs. It isnt my internet connection. I have up to date windows software, as well. When I open windows task manager, under performance it showsmy CPU Usage at 100% when I'm trying to go on web pages. Under Processes, it shows "SAService" going up to 90%-100% CPU usage when I'm going onto pages like Youtube. It says under "username" that it is a "SYSTEM" process. But I believe it is part of Mcafee, not a windows thing (is it safe to end this process? I've never had this problem before). "explorer.exe" and "iexplorer.exe" also spike very high in CPU usage, when I'm trying to open new windows, or search on the internet, or what have you. Can you tell me why they are spiking so high in CPU usage? I really need help badly. Thank you very much! Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182130
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    - All Viacom Add-ins (e.g. TurboNick) Now Missing from VMC! This is a topic I have been chasing for a month now, ever since I updated to Vista SP1 and installed a v2 Media Center Extender for the kids; however, I think it is completely unrelated to either of these events. All of the Viacom-based add-ins no longer appear in the Online Media / Explore menu under VMC. This includes TurboNick, Comedy Central Motherload, MTV, VH1, etc. Unfortunately, I never saved one of these to the Programs menu, so have no idea if this might have avoided this issue. The biggest hit here is TurboNick, since that was intended to be a nice source of programming for the kids. We recently "cut the cable" and went to all OTA HD. Note that TurboNick still shows up through a regular browser, but Motherload has been removed altogether. So, I will assume that someone at Microsoft may have some clue as to what is going on here, especially considering that these add-ins were featured parts of the Vista release, and since all mention of them has been removed from the Vista description pages where they used to appear. My questions are simple: 1. Why did Viacom pull their add-ins out of Vista? Especially for TurboNick VMC seemed to be a part of their strategy. 2. Are they ever coming back? 3. Is there a way to put them back manually? Note that in terms of #3 at least one poster has found a way to manually replace the MTV and VH1 add-ins. The address turbonick.com/mce also continued to bring up an MCML file a couple of weeks ago, but has now been updated to redirect to the normal TurboNick page. All of this makes it clear that SOMEONE knows what is going on here. I would just appreciate as a loyal media center user to be "in the loop" and know whether something better is coming, or whether I just need to give up on ever watching a Viacom product again. Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182128
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    - Task Manager is gone I installed a utility from PC magazine that replaced Task Manager. It seemed to slow down my PC so I uninstalled it. But Task Manager does not respond to Crl-Alt-Del and I can't right click on the Task Bar and get it to start. I found a site that provided instructions to reinstall Task Manager but I could not find all the files needed to complete the install. I'm running XP Pro on a 3 year old Dell XPS. Any quick fixes? Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182125
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    - =?windows-1252?Q?Learn_English=21=21=21=21_Free_download_Grammar_=26_materials?= Learn English!!!! Free download Grammar & materials=85 Learn English and free download Grammar & dictionary. Just click the website and share ur thoughts=85. =93Give a man fish and he=92ll eat once! Teach a man to fish and he=92ll eat for a lifetime=94. http://Onlinespokenenglish.googlepages.com/home Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182112
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    - Converting desktop XO to Windows XP Media Center with DirecTV rece Hi. I have an older XP machine that I am replacing. Rather than dispose of the tower PC, I thought "why not upgrade it to an XP WMC operating system and use it with my non-DVR DirectTV receiver. Then I don't have to buy a new DVR and I still get some mileage out of my existing PC. What I can't tell after reviewing the microsoft.com website is how/if a XP WMC box connects to the DirecTV receiver, how it controls the guide and channel selection on me DirecTV receiver. Does this really work? I am not after HD like some other posts. I just want to get a couple of "older" technologies to work together. Regards, Mark Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182108
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    - minimized MCE screen.... When minimized in the corner of my monitor, the screen used to be wide screen 16: 9, now it is square 4: 3. I have tried to drag it by it's side to stretch it out, but it becomes a bigger square. No item under MCE settings seem to work either. Please, does anyone know how to fix? Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182107
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    - Recovery I tried to do a total system recovery. I got as far as the final step where it say's the screen will go blank for a minute then it will restart. When it went to restart, it said please wait, and just stayed on that screen for about 12 hours. I finally shut down the power and now when it tries to start up it say's system not fully loaded, please insert disc. I have no disc. I have went thru these steps twice. Any help ? -- sl8man Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182093
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    - SQL server VSS writer message Can anyone help eliminate an error message "SQL server VSS writer has encountered a problem..."? It is occurring after a failure of my UPS unit during which I turned the computer off and on frequently while not following the hut down procedure in XP. I m now unable to load certain programs such as AOL. Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182092
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    - Access Denied in trying to edit the Comment section on Properties Re Windows XP and photo files. I have some photo files (.tif) that when I right click, open Properties, go to Summary Tab, and add some text to the Comments, I get the message "Changes to Summary Properties Could not be saved; access has been denied. The file may be marked read-only or may be in use by another application" when I try to save it. The files are not read only (verified in cmd window/ attributes). So some other program has locked the ability to enter summary information. Does anyone know how to "reset" these files so I can edit the summary information? I have tried resaving them, copying them to another computer, but the denial seems to travel with the file. If I convert them to a jpg, I have access again, but technically, it is better for me not to convert because it automatically compresses the files which I don't want. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Gene Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182091
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    - Need Video Card I am running Windows XP MCE 2005 On a Intel mother board with a Intel E2140 Processor. The Video card is VGA ASUS EN8500GT TOP/HTP/256M RT. It's giving me nothing but problems no one here or from the manfacture can solve. I've decided to but a new card. Can anyone tell me what card to buy. I need one that will have no problems with MCE and has HDTV / S-Video / Composite Out Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182090
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    - Replace TiVo with Media Center for HD? Iâ??m looking for a replacement for my old TiVo and am thinking of building a Media Center box for that purpose but am not sure if Media Center will fit all my needs: 1. input/record antenna HD 2. input/record satellite Standard + HD 3. Have DirecTV guides to set up recordings. Can a properly build Media Center PC satisfy these requirements? Youâ??d think it would be easy to find this information but Iâ??m getting conflicting answers. Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182086
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    - MCE 2005 - No Surround Sound 5.1 I have Windows XP Media Center 2005, a Creative X-Fi sound card connected to a Logitech 5.1 surround sound speaker system using Sonicâ??s Cineplay DS VideoDecoder 4.0 version 4.0.0.46 as verified by Windows SP Video Decoder checkup Utility. The utility has a green check mark under MCE Compatible. When I play a DVD through Media Player 11, I can hear sound through all 6 speakers perfectly. When I play the same DVD through the Media Center, I am getting only stereo (sound through 2 speakers and I believe the sub-woofer). I have played with the audio setting in Media Center â?? setting it to 5.1 in the general settings MCE Setup, of course that wonâ??t work, so Iâ??ve also tried the registry update that Aaron has suggested since MC Rollup 2 appears to affect the registry entries and not accessed again the general setup in the audio setting of Media Center to the 5.1 speaker setting. Iâ??ve tried rebooting after various changes, but I cannot get the sound from the 5 speakers, yet it works correctly in Media Player 11. Is this normal? What am I missing here. Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182084
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    - Getting "DVD Library" option to show up with Vista Media Center + SP1 I have a new HP m9200t machine with BluRay/HD drive and I'm trying to get the "DVD Library" option to show up on the Vista Media Center interface without luck. This usually involves a simply registry change specified in this KB article from Microsoft: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/930526 According to a thread on thegreenbutton, the HP Play DVD option in the interface is not letting the "DVD Library" option show up in Vista SP1 because of some other registry key that forces the "DVD Library" to stay hidden. Does anyone know what this registry key is or how to enable the "DVD Library" menu item. Here's the greenbutton thread: http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/257922/ShowThread.aspx#257922 Any help would be greatly appreciated. Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182080
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    - notebook does not open setup files When I try to run setup of my games, my notebook opens the setup program in the notepad instead of running it as an application. How do I change this? TIA Roy Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182077
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    - Can't read from Sandisk SDHC 8gb card Just installed the hotfix (WindowsXP-KB934428-v3-x86-ENU.exe) from MS and my computer still won't read my new 8gb Sandisk SDHC card. The computer has a built in card reader and is using Windows XP. It reads a 2gb card fine. I can plug the camera into a USB port and can read the card and download the pictures fine. Any other suggestions? Thanks Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182076
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    - Motherboard upgrade? Hello there, I just upgraded my motherboard on my PC (alone with new CPU). For the most part everything works great except 2 issues. Issue number 1: I can no longer play TV on media center, I get an error message stating that the files required to play TV are not installed correctly and to reinstall them. Anyone run into this issue when upgrading motherboards on Vista Ultimate 64bit edition? Is it possible I just need to reinstall the drivers for the USB tuner (Arctech). Issue number 2: Perhaps incidently to issue 1, but I figure I'll post it here in the event it's some how vegly related. When I try to listen to music on Zune through my 1 pass or even music I purchased I get an error stating that I need to media rights needs to be reset on this PC. I've followed several different directions with no luck. The Zune.net website points me to a page where the media rights software can be updated which would rest it, but I get a javascript error when I navigate to that page and it doesn't do whatever it's supposed to. Thanks for any thoughts, Carlo Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182075
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    - Unable to move cursor between screens when MCE is in full screen m When I try and run MCE in full screen mode on a two monitor based XP MCE 2002 system, I am unable to move the monitor to the second monitor. I have to minimise MCE to be able to move the cursor back into the other display to do any work via the second display. Any suggestions? Regards RussM -- The only useful work performed by a computer is the heat is generates. Check with your old physics professor if you disagree! Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182074
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    - My Vista Media Center upgrade idea... I was looking at the news of a Media Center update for Vista, and I had also seen Apple TV's arrangement, and was interested (it has much better marketplace integration and digital media accessability ). I then took a look at Vista Media Center, and thought about how it could be brought up to speed for the modern reality of media - we are increasingly holding video, music, and pictures on ever increasing hard drives, and this media needs to be cataloged and organized. Looking at the default options in VMC, I would prefer to have the following: Main Menu: Pictures + Videos - stuff I took with my camera *More Pictures - browse shared images on the network if you have a home network *Picture Library - browse your image library *Video Library - browse your home videos *Search - find an image based on tags or on date taken Games - mini-games for use within Media Center, kind of like Mario Party-style or iPod game style games *More Games - buy or download for free new games from the game market *Game Library - pick a game from the ones you now own. *Play random - picks a game at random Now Playing + Playlists *Playlists - tv, movie, and music playlists here, sortable by type (tv/movie/music) *Now Playing - currently playing media and what's in queue *Create Playlist - create a playlist of media, tv, music, movies, or all mixed TV - watch, record, playback, purchase *Explore - free TV shows from content providers with advertisements. So if NBC allows you to watch a show online, you can click 'NBC', then the show name, and go watch it, streaming. *More TV - similar to iTunes, but allows you to browse through available shows, purchase them, see clips, etc. within VMC. You can subscribe to a show (purchase a season pass), and as new episodes come out, they download for you and show up as 'new' in your TV library *TV Library - just like music library, organized by show, season, then episode. When viewing a series, you can 'play all' to play the whole series from start to finish (no interruption to 'delete'). When viewing a season, you can 'play season' to play the whole season immediately. Underneath this 'play all/season' you would see 'add to queue' to put the series/season/episode into the now playing playlist. This is viewed as banners, thumbnails, or DVD covers. When viewing a description of a show in your library, say 'Smallville,' if you highlight 'Tom Welling' on the stars' listing, you get a new page listing other things he's starred in, like 'The Fog.' If it's in your library, then there's a link next to it saying 'Play' otherwise, 'Buy this Movie' (from the Zune Marketplace). *Internet TV - see the channels you subscribed to online, like RTL or Japan TV, and get new channels here too. *Search - search for a show based on actor, director, writer, genre, keyword from the description, year, etc. in your library. If the library sees episodes missing, they will appear in the library grayed out, but over the thumbnail, you see 'purchase this episode' or 'complete this season of x-show.' Movies - watch, rip, purchase movies *More Movies - find and purchase movies online through the Zune Marketplace, integrated as a Media Center experience. Search by actor, year, title, keyword, genre, director, series, etc. *Movie Library - browse your movie collection purchased/saved to your hard drive as DVD covers, view information, and 'add to queue' to play a series of movies back-to-back. *Search - find a movie based on rating, length, actor, director, series, year, genre, etc. Music - play albums, artists, years, etc. like in media player *Settings - here you can check your albums to make sure the album art is correct, etc. *More Music - music store to purchase music, with recommendations based on your current library. *Music Library - sort by album, artist, etc. *Play All - plays all music *Radio - if you have a radio tuner on the PC, you can hear those station here. *Internet Radio - if a station streams online, it will show here *Search - find music in your library. After searching, if there is a new album by, say, the Cardigans, a link under the library will show "Buy the new Cardigans album 'Erase and Rewind'" which takes you to the music store to try it out and purchase it. Podcasts - get your podcasts organized here *Settings - change when to delete podcasts, when to download, etc. *More Podcasts - get more podcasts from the online directory of *Podcast Library - view downloaded podcasts by name (thumbnail view) *Download Status - see what is downloading and what's in queue to download *Search - find a podcast (you can rename this ZENcast if you use a ZEN...) Sports - same as now. I don't really use it much. Online Media - find new plug-ins and mini-games, etc. Kind of like games for iPod, since a Media Center is supposed to be a social computer. *More Programs - search online database for new miniprograms for VMC. Most are free, 50 cents, or 99 cents *Program Library - mini-programs you downloaded *Explore - internet based content based on your preferences (tv, movies, music you own), by content providers *Learn How - how to do things within VMC Tasks - backend tasks to add content, change settings, etc. *Settings - change settings for menus, how content is arranged, etc. You can change TV Series backgrounds to cast photos, for example. *Shutdown *Burn CD/DVD - create your own music or video CD/DVD. Pick from content in your library, *Sync - add podcasts, shows, music to your portable media player *Add Extender - Media Center finds and configures your Media Extender on the network *Add Network Storage - VMC finds a network storage device and integrates it into your library. If your files there aren't tagged, you can choose to tag them as well. *Add Codec - here you can see the files that are missing the necessary codec to play correctly within VMC, and you can download a codec, have VMC install it, then ask, 'do you want to play these files?' *Media Only - locks computer into VMC for use while you've got company That's how I'd arrange and upgrade Vista Media Center. If something's unclear or you've got ideas, let me know. James ---------------- 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=60ccdeb9-dfa4-4cd2-b8b5-35a9b9f398dd&dg=microsoft.public.windows.mediacenter Tag: cracky intermittent & distorted sound Tag: 182073

Can anybody help me with my sound probem as I am not computor literate I
have checked my speakers and they are working fine I have gone to windows
troubleshoot to no avail I am now getting very frustrated my system is a dell
dimensions 9100 with windows xp
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Re: cracky intermittent & distorted sound by CSM1

CSM1
Sat May 03 09:46:21 PDT 2008

"Ruth" <rual1970@hotmail.co.uk(untouchable)> wrote in message
news:896D9AEC-AF4D-4036-9BD1-7FAA811EBF5D@microsoft.com...
> Can anybody help me with my sound probem as I am not computor literate I
> have checked my speakers and they are working fine I have gone to windows
> troubleshoot to no avail I am now getting very frustrated my system is a
> dell
> dimensions 9100 with windows xp
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> Thank you for your help Ruth

Here is where you get the sound driver for your Dimension 9100 computer.
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&ServiceTag=&SystemID=DIM_P4_9100&os=WW1&osl=en&catid=&impid=

Click on the plus sign at Audio. Download Now. After the download double
click the file you just downloaded. That will install the sound driver.

For sound to work you must have the sound driver and the sound system
configured in Sound Manager.

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