Sorry to take so long to reply to the advice I’m getting here. Had to winterize my motor home since the temps went to below freezing. rsvr85 Windows Media Center and Media Player are (and were) checked in “ Turn Windows features on or off” Windows Media Center Receiver Service & Windows Media Center Scheduler Service are set to manual. When I try to start either service I get the message “ Windows could not start the Windows Media Center Receiver Service service on Local computer. Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.”. Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service is set to Automatic and was already started when I checked. reghakr Windows 7 Home Premium comes with Media Center and, if I’m correct, is installed by default when Win 7 is installed. Installing the TV Tuner and wanting to try out Media Center is what started this mess. “optionalfeatures” is one of the things I checked (see my reply to rsvr85) Swanson Photos Already tried the new “ Admin” account. No luck. As for “ I would not attempt to mirror my system and use it to reinstall if I was having system problems”, it’s no problem and as I said earlier the image I use is a clean install with Macrium Reflect as the only additional installed program. It’s clean and has everything that Win 7 installs by default. I don’t really think this is a system problem, but a “ Idiot Operator” created problem. Any time I install a Windows OS, I clean out all of the Microsoft garbage that I never use (programs, services, etc). This time it bit me in the butt when I decided to try Media Center. It will only take me a few minutes to re-install from the image (the way I type, by the time I finish this reply, I could have already re-installed Win 7 and all the programs I use). Once again, I appreciate all the time the three of you have spent giving me advice to help correct my own.
Note – this post was originally written for Windows Vista, but it also applies to Windows 7. Since the Windows Vista public launch in January 2007, I have been receiving questions more frequently about how to repair Windows Media Center to try to resolve various bugs. Many of the customers I have heard from have tried some of the repair steps I have previously posted for Windows XP Media Center Edition (such as this, this or this but ran into problems getting them to work. I want to emphasize that OS repair techniques that I have previously documented for Windows XP Media Center Edition will not work on Windows Vista or Windows 7 and should not be used on these versions of Windows. The underlying installation technology for OS components is completely new in Windows Vista, so install/repair techniques for Windows XP OS components will not continue to work on Windows Vista and higher. Also, some of the registration utilities that shipped with previous versions of Media Center are not included in Windows Vista or higher because they are no longer needed. Windows Vista and Windows 7 Media Center files and registry information are protected by Windows Resource Protection ( WRP) in Windows Vista. This means that only the OS installer service (named Trusted Installer) has permission to modify/remove these files or registry keys unless you specifically take ownership of the files/keys and add additional user accounts to the access permission list (which you should not need to do except in extraordinary circumstances). If you run into problems while using Windows Vista or Windows 7 Media Center and you suspect that files or registry entries that are a part of the Media Center feature are corrupt, you can use the instructions listed below to attempt to repair them. Repairing Windows Vista and Windows 7 Media Center files You can use the following steps to repair the files.
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