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I found the time to have a look at Windows Media Centre on Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. I uninstalled and installed WMC without any problems. I confirmed that turning the feature on and off does install and uninstall the folder and files for WMC. I did manage to create a problem similar to yours but I found that turning WMC off and then on again fixed it. I'd like to understand the current state of your system. Can you answer the questions in bold. The other text gives some detail. When you turn the WMC feature off it removes a number of registry entries and removes the ehome folder which is in your Windows folder which is usually C:\Windows\ehome. Is there an ehome folder on your system after you turn WMC on? WMC uses services "Media Center Extender Service", "Windows Media Center Receiver Service" and "Windows Media Center Scheduler Service". Do you have the WMC services installed? You can check if they are installed by running the Windows Task Manager and selecting the Services tab. The Winsxs folder contains the Windows component store which is effectively the entire operating system broken down into packaged components. So whatever you do don't delete any files in the Winsxs folder. This store is used to install WMC. So how big is your C:\Windows\Winsxs folder? My Winsxs folder is about 16GB but the size depends how specific components have been handled: for example, there are backups of some updated components that can been be removed so the update becomes permanent and can't be uninstalled. Removing those files reduces the size to about 12GB. If you search the Winsxs folder, how many files have "mediacenter" in their name? Mine has about 130 files.
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To answer your other question: No, I did not delete any files from my Winsxs folder. ![]() Frank |
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I presume that there is no start menu item for WMC or is there? What happens when you run WMC manually using c:\windows\ehome\ehshell.exe? Try installing/registering the WMC services. I copied these commmands from a Microsoft Technet forum. Quote:
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http://gyazo.com/1946934fe82bce9ea67c0065e2341205 I manually set the services to Automatic. They were originally set to Manual. I then tried to run WMC but again nothing happened. I then tried using the Windows Features app again to turn WMC on, but got the same error message as in my original post, that "An error has occurred. (etc.)" and it failed. I thought of copying the ehome folder from another computer, but there is none available to me that has the Win7 64-bit OS. I appreciate your helping me through this problem. Frank |
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OK, we now know the c:\windows\ehome folder is there and services are registered. It doesn't matter so much whether they all run because we don't have to use them all.
What I hoped to avoid is getting into the registry to work out what needs to be repaired. I don't have time to look at it for at least a few days. So at this point, the easier path would be to get rid of the legacy device so you can update Windows in place. I'll get back to you as soon as I can assemble some next steps.
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Is there some way I can create a temporary "clean" registry, do the in-place reinstall, and then restore the real registry after the reinstall? ![]() Frank |
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http://www.r@ymond.cc/blog/how-to-ed...ng-in-windows/ (replace @ with a, it's censored here for whatever reason)
That should take care of any registry entries. I wouldn't recommend the "clean" registry route, because that can easily create more problems than solve. Lastly, next time take a look into this: http://www.techsupportalert.com/best...g-software.htm |
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My particular problem stems from the fact that I didn't discover that I needed Windows Media Center until well after the time that I uninstalled it, so I was beyond the window of restorability of all these backup programs. (I limit them to one month each.) My reason for needing WMC at this point is so that I can use an add-in, TunerFreeMCE, for watching streaming internet TV programs on my PC. It provides support for the full Hulu catalogue of TV programs through the WMC interface. Without WMC I'm "marooned." Thank you, JL, for your helpful information. I'll look forward to editing the registry again using the new tool, and then trying another in-place reinstall. Frank Last edited by Anupam; 21. Aug 2013 at 07:50 PM. Reason: Commercial software edited out. Sorry, not allowed. |
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backup of software before uninstalling uninstall driver software show registry entries for installed software
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