HP media center pc m8517c: is this too old computer?

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• Media Center seems to have disappeared from my computer

  Remember - this is a public forum so never post private information such as numbers of mail or telephone!

  I can't start my library because the option to start, it is nowhere.

  In the start search box type: %SystemRoot%\ehome\ehshell.exe and click OK.

  If it works then create a Media Center shortcut: -.

  Right click on desktop > New > shortcut > to locate the element type: '%SystemRoot%\ehome\ehshell.exe' - follow the wizard to finish making the shortcut

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• Too old computer for Windows 7. Move from XP to the good idea of Vista?

  I have a Toshiba Satellite A105-S4004 and the second digit of the serial number is a 6, which means I can't do Windows 7 for them.

  What makes you say your computer is too old for Windows 7? According to the model number you registered your computer it will work. I could add more ram if it still has only 1 GB, but you can run it without any problems. I ran Windows 7 with 512 MB of ram more than once. You will need to tweak it by disabling some startup items.

  The minimum requirements for Windows 7 CPU speed is 1.0 GHz, which refers to a single processor core. You should be fine. You have an Intel Core Duo T2300 / 1.66 GHz processor.

• my xp media center edition2005 has been removed from my computer

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  If I can it will wipe all of my computer or I have to save everything

  I want to restore my xp as someone said an illegal windows 7 I have the product key for xp of origin he is an Acer5102WLMI how it back

  If I can it will wipe all of my computer or I have to save everything

  If the mysterious "somebody" has not deleted the hidden restore partition (assuming that your Acer model had a), you can restore the computer to its factory costs.  Otherwise, you can get an Acer recovery media.

  See: http://acer.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2631

  In two cases, Yes, restore Windows XP will erase everything that is currently on your hard drive, so if you have all the data (documents, e-mail, images, music, etc.), you must copy it to the external media before the restore operation.  Applications that were not preloaded by Acer must be reinstalled from original installation (CD/DVD or downloaded installation package) media saved.

• Restore the computer with windows media center, but I am asked for a second disk. I don't have this drive.

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• Windows Media Center cannot often record saying "recording of this content is prohibited by the content provider.

  This happens when the program is one that I've recorded previously.
  If I go through the process of setting up the TV signal, record work very little time after, but the next time I try to save, maybe the next day, recording fails again.  I have Windows 7, card AverMedia Hybrid NTSC/ATSC and Comcast.

  Hello

  I suggest you try the following steps:
   
  Step 1: You can try to update play ready in Windows Media Center. To do this, follow the steps below

  In Windows Media Center, click tasks > settings > TV-> TV Signal > update play ready.  You can accept the EULA ready to play (End User License Agreement)
   
  For more information on the subject of play ready, you can also view the link below:
  Set up a TV signal in Windows Media Center
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/set-up-a-TV-signal-in-Windows-Media-Center
   
  Step 2: Try the reset tool Microsoft DRM (Digital Rights Management)
  http://drmlicense.one.Microsoft.com/Indivsite/en/indivit.asp?force=1
  For more information, see the link below
   
  A problem of recording TV on your computer
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/troubleshoot-problems-with-recording-TV-on-your-computer

• get this pop up message "a necessary component of the Windows Media Center has not started properly. Restart Windows Media Center.

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  Whenever I try to add videos (or whatever it is) on my media center it will not add and I get this pop up message "a necessary component of the Windows Media Center has not started properly. Restart Windows Media Center.

  And I restart it, but it still gives me the same thing whenever I'll add things. I also have the Extender for my xbox 360 and video flies never show there either. A few moments ago, I got this working with my xbox and everyhting showed, now it gives me fits. Can someone please help

  Try this for me:

  Task Scheduler (Local)-> library of Task Scheduler-> Microsoft-> Windows-> Media Center-> MediaCenterRecoveryTask

  If this does not work, try this:

  1. open regedit by clicking on the start menu and type "regedit" in the search box and clicking on the link of the regedit program that opens.

  2. go in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

  3. click on the file --> export and save a copy of this portion of the registry where you can find later if you need IT.

  4 Note the values in the column of data to "ProgramFilesDir" and "ProgramFilesDir (x 86(). (If you have only one of those that, don't worry. I think that only users of Windows 64-bit will have both, but I don't know.)

  5. If you have a standard installation of Windows, the right for "ProgramFilesDir" column should read "C:\Program Files" and the right column for "ProgramFilesDir (x 86) ' should read"C:\Program Files (x 86)"." If they are not, try changing them to these values. To do this right click on the name in the left column and selecting Edit. Copy the 'correct' value of this message in the data value field in the box that opens. Click OK , and then do the same for the other (if you have two).

  6. RESTART. It will not work until you restart your computer.

  7. Open Windows Media Center and see if the problem is resolved.

• MEDIA CENTER HP SYSTEM

  have AMD 64 X 2 DUAL CORE 6000 3.00 GHz.  information system. the display shows 32-bit OS.  He shouldn't say 64-bit?

  Here are the specifications of your desktop HP Pavilion Media Center m8300f. According to specifications, your computer has an AMD Athlon 64 X 2 6000 as you have already said. Also, the specifications indicate that the computer came with Windows Vista Home Premium (32 bit) installed at the factory. This is the reason why the screen system information displays the 32-bit operating system.

  Personally, I would not recommend installing Windows 8 on your computer. Too many potential problems and a total absence of driver and software support, do to the computer, being 5 years old. Seems a good choice for your Windows 7 Home Premium or Ultimate 64-bit computer. Your computer has 3 GB of RAM, but 4 GB is the minimum that I would use with a Windows 7 64-bit operating system. Your computer supports the following specifications of memory;

  Dual channel memory architecture

  Four connectors DIMM DDR2 240-pin

  Supported DIMM types:

  PC2-4200 (533 MHz)

  PC2-5300 (667 MHz)

  PC2-6400 (800 MHz)

  Memory non - ECC, unbuffered

  Supports DIMM DDR2 2 GB modules

  Supports up to 8 GB on 64-bit PCs

  Supports up to 4 GB on 32-bit PCs

• My Media Center is still broken. The notice of recovery, I have to fix was less useless.

  I followed all the instructions given to me to attempt a repair of ehRec.exe. These instructions took the time to follow, but in the end, destroyed my software Windows completely. I have re-installed Windows from the installation disc (which did not include a codec MPEG2.) I got the ffdshow codec, kind of works. However, even after a reinstall complete ehRec.exe is always (occasional) broken, that my media center crashes more than half the time, I try to use it, and almost always regular for registration fails. Is it possible that maybe some Microsoft fix caused the problem? I know by looking at other forums that I am not the only unhappy camper in Media Center.

  I am very pleased with the notice I received. The instructions regarding the use of sfc were simply wrong and the instructions on how to fix my problem were probably just fake too. For example, I don't think you can do a repair installation, unless you have an up-to-date installation CD 100%. Certainly, that didn't in my case and left the system in a State that won't start plu. I start to wonder if your procedures have been tested on real systems with older installation CD and upgrades and random failures since the initial installation.

  On another thread, kkwriter (a user, no Microsoft technical support) gave me an answer to this problem:

  Media center and client .net 4 are not compatible. Remove .net 4 and the media center problems disappear. (Ignore the warning that some programs may break if you remove .net 4 when uninstall you.) Some might, but none that I use.)

  There are probably a lot of people with the media center problem. It's too bad Microsoft does one.

• Loss of signal HDMI in Windows Media Center

  I have a Dell Studio Hybrid PCs only running Windows Vista Home Edition Premium attached to a Samsung LN52A750 LCD HDTV via HDMI. If I turn on the TV away from the PC input and back, I lose the video signal... but only when Windows Media Center is running in full screen.

  It works fine:

  1. Turn on the TV.
  2. Switch to PC input on the TV.
  3. Turn on the PC.
  4. Start Windows Media Center.
  5. Turn off the PC.
  6. Turns off the TV (or switch to a different input).

  This also works very well:

  1. Turn on the TV.
  2. Switch to PC input on the TV.
  3. Turn on the PC.
  4. Start Windows Media Center.
  5. Minimize Windows Media Center.
  6. Turn on the TV to a different entry, but leave the PC.
  7. Turn on your TV to the PC - you see always the computer.

  It does NOT work:

  1. Turn on the TV.
  2. Switch to PC input on the TV.
  3. Turn on the PC.
  4. Start Windows Media Center.
  5. Turn on the TV to a different entry, but leave the PC with Windows Media Center in full screen running .
  6. Try to turn on the TV to the PC - no picture or sound is on the screen and the PC must be restarted to return sound/video fully.

  I came across this problem recently (after the passage of a VGA/DVI to HDMI connection). First of all, I came across it when the PC would go to sleep - the video signal stops and the TV stop see the PC signal, even once the PC is awake. I have read a bit online and thought it was something people call a problem of 'EDID handshake. " I thought simply not let the computer sleep (and do not turn off the PC video) would fix it, but I ran into another issue. Kind of a twist.

  I was showing friends how Media Center worked, I spent in the PC, showed them Windows Media Center, spent in a different entry, then switched back to the PC (because I forgot to show you something). The blue background of Media Center appeared for a split second and the signal was instantly lost. I had to reload completely in order to recover the signal.

  I retried the experience - shot to the top of Media Center, active the TV away from the computer, then it passed right away - same result. Restart lost, hard signal.

  I don't know how I fell on it, but at some point, I had the experience with a twist. I pulled to the top of the computer, started Media Center and reduced. Then I moved the TV away from the PC and back... and the signal was always there. I did it again, and again, the signal was there. The TV turns off and on again - signal always there. Then I enlarged Media Center, changed television away from the PC, and when I came back... NO SIGNAL.

  So: with full-screen Media Center loses the signal, but when Media Center is reduced to a minimum the signal remains.

  I started thinking about how my recent use of the Media Center differed from the previous time. Normally, I use the Media Center, watch a movie or something and then go and do something else. I'm back from PC to something else and back. And every time that I had spent in the PC and he had kept the signal, the screen saver has been on - the screen saver 'bubbles '.

  Something that I noticed with the screensaver "Bubbles" is that it sometimes brings the Windows taskbar in the foreground so it 'up' to the Windows Media Center full screen appears. I usually turn the television on the PC input before "wake the computer" and to get the screensaver to go.

  Now I wonder if the lost signal has something to do with Windows Media Center. I have [I think] know a bit the functioning of Windows and the concept of execution of different 'offices '. I wrote a screensaver in C++ unmanaged long ago and I remember there was some crazy stuff that you have to do when you write an application "windowless" (as Media Center - there is no border around it when it goes full screen) and make the "caches", as the screen saver 'bubbles '. I wonder if he has something to do with the standard Windows Desktop works correctly but the Windows Media Center app full screen "desktop" does not properly.

  I tried another experience where I kept full screen WMC, leave the TV losing signal and press Win + D to minimize and show the desktop. Then I went to the TV in the back. No luck - once the signal has been lost, it was lost for good.

  I did since then research various responses. I read that defining the ACPI suspend mode S3 would fix it, but it doesn't. I tried implementing a keyboard shortcut attached to a script that could change the display resolution of 640 x 480 and then change back because I read changing the resolution to update the signal - which did not work.

  Basically, I got no alternative except to keep WMC reduced when it is not in use.

  I'll try to set the screen saver "Bubbles" to 1 minute or something and see if that will at least let me inputs turn on the TV after one minute of inactivity. Yet, it would be good to know if there is some setting I'm missing.

  Hello Travis and Jmelton98,

  Thank you for posting.  Your tests of Travis and additional post of Jmelton, it seems it will be probably something that only can be set by the video card drivers.  If you were to look at the known issues for some drivers, you would see similar questions types.  It is one of the reasons for the drivers for video cards are updated so often.  Sometimes there will be a problem so important that they will release a special patch to fix (like what happened during the crisis game is released).  There should be a new series of pilots soon become availible.

  Please try and see if the problem persists.  Thank you both for the replies that it will help others too. Zack
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• No digital cable in Media Center?

  I am currently under a bridge GT5694 with Vista 64 bit.  I swapped the internal for a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 1250 tv tuner card wireless card so that I could use the Media Center as a DVR.

  I am currently unable to get Media Center to listen to digital channels and can't seem to find any options under setting (or the tuner configuration) to make sweeping digital signals.

  The WinTV software is quite capable of tuning in quite a few digital channels unencrypted, but without channel guide or function DVR that I'm dying to WMC.

  I searched for the corrections online, but none seems not to work.

  Any suggestions?

  Apart from the suggestion of Santosh to ensure that Windows is completely up to date on updates ('important' and 'optional', as there have been several updates to Media Center that fell in both categories), I also recommend that you install the driver package Media Center specific 'good' for this tuner from Hauppauge rather than the drivers updated or CD provided by Windows.
  Go to http://www.hauppauge.com/site/support/support_hvr1250.html, then click on the "Install Windows Media Center" tab on this page.  The package you want isMCEKit_setup - it includes the specific drivers for Media Center (as an encoder software for the analog tuner on the card) which are not included in the package 'standard', or provided through WU.

  Once you have installed the drivers of such (and rebooted), restart the installation of TV in Media Center.  If MC now gives you the option to set up two tuners (should be), go with it. If not, try selecting "no, I would like to manually configure my signal" - OK now?
  When you configure sources Guide tuners, you'll select for the analog tuner and for the digital tuner.

  A couple of useful things, too, to put in place a Clear QAM tuner in Media Center (once you get to recognize the tuner, of course):
  How to set up a digital cable (ClearQAM) tuner in Windows 7 Media Center: http://www.hdtvtunerinfo.com/win7mcqamsetup.html
  Channel range SiliconDust server: http://www.silicondust.com/support/channels/
  The first is a good how-to on setting up; the latter is (often) needed to help mapping channels to Guide listings.

  If you are still unable to put in place the two tuners in Media Center, I recommend doing a reset database (sometimes, ah, stuck...):
  Open an elevated command prompt.  Run the following command: C:\Windows\eHome\mcupdate.exe - MediaCenterRecoveryTask
  (Note the space between the .exe and the dashboard).  Let it run for a few minutes (I don't remember if it will give you a "I'm done" - type confirmation), restart and run the Media Center Setup again (that MC should encourage them to you on his own - he must perform installation of first broadcast.)

  HTH,
  Chris

  MS - MVP (Media Center) [If this post can help solve your problem, please click the 'Mark as answer' or 'Useful' at the top of this message.] [Marking a post as answer, or relatively useful, you help others find the answer more quickly.]

• Windows 7, Windows Media Center and the library of music/photos/videos folders

  I like the 'Libraries' feature in Windows 7.

  You know the one - one which includes "Public Images" and "My pictures" and what I want in a single 'Photos' folder in Explorer.

  However, it looks like Windows Media Center is tired directly according to the definitions in the library of my user id.

  If I remove 'My pictures' library of Windows Media Center, or even from my XBox 350 Media Center Extender in the living room.  It removes a library of images for my UserID on the PC.

  It's embarrassing. Because, in general, I want only the media center to search for media in public folders. But when records navigation using windows Explorer that I want to see too well 'My' and 'Public' files aggregated in libraries as usual.

  To sum up: how to configure Media Center to analyze only the public folders without changing the definitions of on my PC library to contain only public folders?

  If this can be done - can I at least do so the Extender sees only public folders and not mine, once it is configured? (I figured out how to do this, but it's a pain - add a new user name to the computer - configure the Extender by using that user - and then the extender will see not all documents under MY personal login at least.)

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  Hello

  I am sorry to say that there are no options to make the changes you need. Scans of Media Center places appears, at this point, is by design.

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• Pavilion Media Center m8430f Desktop video card replacement

  For about a month now my desktop computer Pavilion Media Center m8430f is at the origin of the yellow spots, blue stripes and dots to arrive on the screen then the computer hangs. Moniter is a G185h Acer which I use from 2010 when the original monitor is released.  I also get yellow wavy lines then in safe mode.

  So the thought is the video card went bad and needs replaced.  I picked up a Galaxy GeForce NVIDIA GT 610 to replace the NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT. Two questions - will be my Pavilion Media Center m8430fbe to handle this card? How could I go on install?  I checked the instructions to install a new video card, but none of them relates to my machine.

  I thank you in advance for any help or insght, you can give in this case.

  According to the specifications of your desktop PC and your new GalaxyTech video card, it should be a good fit and work without problems.

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  I will try to find a video for you on how to replace the map.  Fact!

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