Do you need to leave WMC running for scheduled recording to work?

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Very, very, VERY n00b question here...
I'm using Vista Home Premium Windows Media Center to watch Live TV, and now
for the first time, Scheduled Recording.

If I shut down WMC, but leave Vista running, will the Scheduled Recording
still work?
And if I can't shut down WMC for Scheduled Recording to work, do I need to
keep Live TV running also?

Cheers, Rex.
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Re: Do you need to leave WMC running for scheduled recording to work? by Nigel

Nigel
Fri May 09 03:04:29 PDT 2008

On Fri, 9 May 2008 02:26:00 -0700, rexamillian <rexamillian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Very, very, VERY n00b question here...
>I'm using Vista Home Premium Windows Media Center to watch Live TV, and now
>for the first time, Scheduled Recording.
>
>If I shut down WMC, but leave Vista running, will the Scheduled Recording
>still work?
>And if I can't shut down WMC for Scheduled Recording to work, do I need to
>keep Live TV running also?
>
>Cheers, Rex.

Media Center will run in the background handling recordings. It will even wake up from sleep & shut
down again the record a show.
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Cheers

Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur
MCE MVP
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Re: Do you need to leave WMC running for scheduled recording to wo by rexamillian

rexamillian
Fri May 09 08:43:00 PDT 2008

Oh... so even if you close down WMC using the [X] (or via Tasks > Close) it
will still complete the Scheduled Recordings? That's pretty good.

Rex.

"Nigel Barker" wrote:

> On Fri, 9 May 2008 02:26:00 -0700, rexamillian <rexamillian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >Very, very, VERY n00b question here...
> >I'm using Vista Home Premium Windows Media Center to watch Live TV, and now
> >for the first time, Scheduled Recording.
> >
> >If I shut down WMC, but leave Vista running, will the Scheduled Recording
> >still work?
> >And if I can't shut down WMC for Scheduled Recording to work, do I need to
> >keep Live TV running also?
> >
> >Cheers, Rex.
>
> Media Center will run in the background handling recordings. It will even wake up from sleep & shut
> down again the record a show.
> --
>
> Cheers
>
> Nigel Barker
> Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur
> MCE MVP
>
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Re: Do you need to leave WMC running for scheduled recording to wo by David

David
Fri May 09 13:01:10 PDT 2008

It's services are still running in the background, no magic about it.

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"rexamillian" <rexamillian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:82908439-818E-42E1-BD44-BB05F2C1D969@microsoft.com...
> Oh... so even if you close down WMC using the [X] (or via Tasks > Close)
> it
> will still complete the Scheduled Recordings? That's pretty good.
>
> Rex.
>
> "Nigel Barker" wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 9 May 2008 02:26:00 -0700, rexamillian
>> <rexamillian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>>
>> >Very, very, VERY n00b question here...
>> >I'm using Vista Home Premium Windows Media Center to watch Live TV, and
>> >now
>> >for the first time, Scheduled Recording.
>> >
>> >If I shut down WMC, but leave Vista running, will the Scheduled
>> >Recording
>> >still work?
>> >And if I can't shut down WMC for Scheduled Recording to work, do I need
>> >to
>> >keep Live TV running also?
>> >
>> >Cheers, Rex.
>>
>> Media Center will run in the background handling recordings. It will even
>> wake up from sleep & shut
>> down again the record a show.
>> --
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Nigel Barker
>> Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur
>> MCE MVP
>>

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