It installed, but would not run. This v12 is really nice, but installing it after a Windows 10 Insider upgrade is a no-go for some reason at least for me. I find it is better to just throw on v10, and when I do a clean install v12 works perfectly.
500+ downloads in one month or so.... Looks like there is still intelligent life on earth, able to use a search button/engine w/o any need of being spooned each time
Good news, my guide just updated to 4/11. Hopefully all of the daylight savings stuff is behind us now. At least till fall.
Hello everyone i'm going to update my Windows 8.1 Pro with Mediacenter to Windows 10 and after i'll try to install WMC following the instructions read in previous posts trying to get it working on xbox 360. Can you please explain if some operation must be done before the update to 10 to facilitate a clean installation of WMC v12 ? For example: need to remove Windows Mediacenter functionality , mcx user and "MCX + ehome" folders before update to 10 or can i let Windows Setup to remove the functionality by himself ? after the upgrade to 10 and before starting the procedure of patching WMC (install v8, remove v8, install v12 etc etc...) , need to remove "MCX + ehome" old folders and start a "fresh" install or it's better to keep "old" folders ? thanks
Just update to w10, then install the WMC pack v12. If you're lucky nothing else must be done to have the WMC up and working w/o any additional setup step. If you aren't lucky the W8 settings will be corrupted.not migrated correctly (that may happen on proper upgrades as well). In such scenario WMC wouldn't start at all. Then you have to launch the WMC recovery task, and then setup your channels and settings from scratch. That's all for the plain WMC functionality. To patch it to make it work via RDP or to get the XBOX 360 working as extender, additional steps are needed, you will find them on the previous pages.
Thanks very much for that. I've been looking around this site a little more. It's a very unique site. Lots here that is no where else - kind of on the edge here. I can see why you don't see Chrome as a reasonable browser. I ended up wiping my disk, backing off to Win8.1, using a key some generous person posted to get WMC, then using a tool developed here to fix the deactivation problem it created. My copy of Windows 8.1 was fully licensed, so that's my right. This will only work until January 2023, but that's a while. So I didn't use this tool, but I used something else from this site. I'm grateful for this site.
For Extenders.... click on v12 in my signature and read... everything written by Meluvalli for xbox360 modification. Mcx2Prov and NtRights are the keys. For the RDP Patch, read everything Graznok, T-S, and Abbodi HexEdit Ehshell and Microsoft.MediaCenter.UI, The 2 files are injected into the O/S with 1-click Installer
Anyone else make the mistake of letting w10 upgrade itself to version 10.0.10586? Didn't really realize what I was doing was installing a whole new version of windows and long story short my nicely functioning wmc install is gone. So went back to the v12 installer and ran into the usual sort of errors, had to remove it and reinstall and once I actually get ehshell.exe in ehome it does the briefly execute and nothing happens schtick. Event manager has a .NET error in there (pasted below). Tried the MediCenterRecoveryTask and ObjectStoreRecoveryTask, no joy. Noted T-S talks about editing the config file and setting new version to 10.0.0.0 but it's untouchable on my machine, can't even overwrite it or remove the old one (TrustedInstaller appears to be the only thing with access). Application: ehshell.exe Framework Version: v4.0.30319 Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception. Exception Info: System.AccessViolationException at Microsoft.MediaCenter.Interop.Win32Api.SetCurrentProcessExplicitAppUserModelID(System.String) at ServiceBus.UIFramework.UserControlPoint.Launch(System.String) and Faulting application name: ehshell.exe, version: 6.3.9600.16384, time stamp: 0x5215efc2 Faulting module name: shcore.dll, version: 10.0.10586.0, time stamp: 0x5632d457 Exception code: 0xc0000005 Fault offset: 0x000000000003c8c2 Faulting process id: 0xf60 Faulting application start time: 0x01d18a3d9e52cb75 Faulting application path: C:\Windows\ehome\ehshell.exe Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\system32\shcore.dll Report Id: 926ccacf-459b-4908-9d1a-f6fc7a4d1616 Faulting package full name: Faulting package-relative application ID:
"That's all for the plain WMC functionality. To patch it to make it work via RDP or to get the XBOX 360 working as extender, additional steps are needed, you will find them on the previous pages. " Would it be possible to get a very detailed explanation on how to proceed according to the #3950 description from meluvalli? I am tempted to test as my v12 is working nicely under W10 with exception for Extender 360. Appreciate any support of this kind as I am not that skilled as most of you guys.
oh can't find these posts even though I checked various previous pages, I may have missed just another confirmation, if i came from a W8.1 with Mediacenter can i try to install directly v12 bypassing v8 ?
found a way to download old v8 version of mce patch for WIN10 Hello my friends. If some of you is looking for the old v8 version of the MCE patch for Windows 10 and has the same problems like me, because the site datafilehost might give you an *.exe file and not the demanded 7z-file: here is what i did to download the file "WindowsMediaCenter 6.3.9600.16384 x64 v8.7z": 1. in Firefox browser google for "WindowsMediaCenter 6.3.9600.16384 x64 v8.7z" 2. for me I took the second hit which was datafilehost.com/d/5ba1bb8b" 3. don´t click on the hit itself but in the second line (in my browser it has green color) click the little green triangle and then the opened button "in cache" or something like this (in german: "im cache") 4. a new window will open (for me with the following adress: "webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:z5gm1gtpmXIJatafilehost.com/d/5ba1bb8b+&cd=2&hl=de&ct=clnk&gl=de" 5. here you can click the download button of datafilehost and will get the right version of MCE patch v8 Hope this is useful for somebody
Reading the instructions written everywhere on this thread should be enough. On datafilehost just uncheck the option to use their "safe"" download manager. That's all.
@TS my browser let me not uncheck the option (maybe because of addons like adblock plus or no-script I use)
No amount of gerfingerpoken is going to get v12 to install with w10 Version 10.0.10586 on my machine however v8 install does succeed -- of course it can't then get the epg set up (I'm in LA). But using the v12 BackupRestoreSettings on the other w10 install that's the previous version of windows and was a v12 wmc install that set itself up with minimal fuss (had to try it twice IIRC) and moving the SettingsBackup folder and registry keys to the newly upgraded machine worked nicely (did it before yet another install of v8 so first thing wmc sees it's already setup). And of course because I'm using v8 scheduled recordings weren't happening but adding the network service user to the administrators as mentioned in the workarounds of v12 fixed that up nicely -- hopefully it's not a security issue...