Hi all, Welcome to the new year and may all your software issues melt away like butter Just wanted to chime in here since my system recently upgraded to V1709 (skipped 1703 since that kept screwing up my start menu...as in dumping even MS app icons I, too, lost WMC and wondered if the Win 10 upgrade was the issue. Nice to know it wasn't something I did (directly, anyways). I originally had installed "WindowsMediaCenter_10.0.10134.0v2.1.rar" onto my system and that was the one that got snuffed (along with the DNLA server it provided). I just found "WMC_6.3.9600.16384_x64_v12.7z" and downloaded it from mega.nz (can I post a url in here? If not, apologies) and installed it. Seems to come up and work fine. Caveat on this is that I have an OSMC/RPI 3-based HTPC so I haven't, and prob'ly won't, verify much of the HTPC part of WMC, only the DNLA server and music capabilities parts. I may also use it to watch movies/TV shows that I access from my HTPC (desktop is upstairs, HTPC downstairs). However, if I do run into something, I will certainly be back here. Cheers.....
After update I lost my WMC icon, and after reinstaling WMC_6.3.9600.16384_x64_v12.7 it's still not there. Any way to fix it?
Hi All, Long time Media Center / Windows 10 user been a while since i last checked in to see how those on the bleeding edge are doing. I last updated and tinkered with windows 10 / Media Center about a year or so ago and its been running perfect. All the time I've been holding windows at 1607 14393.1358 version for so long using this old trick:- "Via Group Policy Disabled Windows Updates by going into GPEDIT.MSC Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows Update\Configure Automatic Updates set to Disabled." This has allowed me to block windows 10 updating without turning off windows update service or windows installer service. I wanted to start a fresh from my baseline windows 10 image prior to MC being installed and raise it up to latest version but looks like having read back through the forum I'm worried that if i raise it to the very latest version:- 1) SMB is going to be messed up? (which i need) 2) I'll be unable to use the above trick to stop windows updating and hold it a a particular version anymore? So i'm going to use the windows update show / hide tool to supress all updates and just take the 1607 update and get my system to 1607 14393.2007 and stop there I think this then is probably as far as I'm going to be able to update windows 10. My TV is on the blink and I'm probably going to end up getting a 4K TV! Did anyone find out how to patch the ehshell version 6.3.9600.16384 to supress the high resolution warning? Best Regards Gareth North P.S Like the work with the Modern Media UI nice having all the reg hacks in one place! Good Work!
hey guys is cable card still broken? if not whats the best version of wmc to download? fresh install win10 thanks
I guess I should've posed this as a question the 1st time. I couldn't find help on it. Is there a way to fix the guide. I can't search for TV recordings by "Keyword" without getting an error saying "search results may be incomplete because the guide listings are still being indexed." I used to be able to. Also, any way to get it to work on a 4k laptop without changing display setting to open it every time?
Full screen freeze fixed. I struggled for days with WMC freezing when maximizing to full screen. I am running WMC 8.7 in a fresh install of Windows 10 Pro 1709 on a HP ProDesk 600 G1 DM with 16GB RAM, Intel i5-4590T @ 2.00GHz, and Intel HD 4600 graphics. I tried disabling game bar, running in Windows 8 compatibility mode, disabling full screen optimizations, and various builds of WMC all to no avail. Finally I disabled hardware acceleration on my video card and WMC stopped crashing in full screen. I had to disable it using the regedit as follows: 1. Open regedit and browse to HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Avalon.Graphics 2. Create DWORD called DisableHWAcceleration 3. Set value to 1 I hope this helps someone.
I cannot get WMC 12 to recognize my HDHomeRun. I have a clean version of 10586.1356 I am using the 20150806 version of HDHomeRun Drivers The extenders are configured and work correctly. I tried putting the computer to sleep and starting it back up, but that didn't work. Updates are disabled. There are three installed that I cannot get rid of. KB4035632, KB3173428, and KB3161102. ehprivjob.exe /ocurdiscovery shows all three Tuners. When I try to set up live TV on WMC, it pauses for about a minute and says, "The TV signal cannot be configured because a tuner was not detected. If you have a tuner, ensure it is installed correctly." I'm at my wit's end trying to get this thing to work. My 8.1 WMC key is saying its no longer valid, or else I'd just downgrade. I have an MSDN subscription, so I can get any version except WMC. I just cannot figure out this this won't work.
Bummer, there aren't any updates to install. The version you showed there is the version I already have installed. Looks like a long-winded revert back down to Windows 8.1.
[TV Setup] "Downloading TV Setup Data" Windows Media Center is downloading the latest TV setup data for your region Yes I'm just getting this message... hangs forever. Tried all the workarounds in included doc (Workarounds.txt) + moved ehome + Disabled full screen optimizations + registry edit w EhtrayExitDelay. @win10 Pro 16299.192 / 1709. Is anyone having luck downgrading to 1511? I had disabled WUP service and it still forced this one down. Not sure if I wait longer for guide to work or try and downgrade (but then how do i block updates?).
Finally figure out the issue with guide not updating... This worked for me.. Using the "workaround" text Start with Line 6 complete everything up to and including line 9. "6.Type: ipconfig /flushdns If you type it correctly it should say: "successfully flushed the dns resolver cache." 7.Close Windows Media Center if it is open 8.Start>type "c:\ProgramData\Microsoft\ehome" 9.Delete file "mcepg2-0" and folder "mcepg2-0" this will force you to set up live tv from scratch in WMC (or delete anything named m***.db and the corresponding folder) Stop after line 9. Disconnect from the internet without turning the computer off. now do line 10. 10.Open windows media center and go through the Live TV setup and you should now be able to download guide data" You will get the guide error popup. Turn you computer off. Re-connect to the Internet. Run Guide setup again. After several months I now have an updated guide... That worked for me. FYI....I have been using MCE since my purchase of HP873n. back in October 2002 Love the UI and wished MS would offer it as a stand-alone software.
Update: Having spent a long time comparing a couple of identical PCs, one on 1703 and the other on 1709, I can't see any registry entries or files present on one of them and not the other that would stop the WMC specific buttons from working. I may well have missed something of course - there are thousands of registry entries and hundreds of files and I have absolutely no idea what a lot of them do. I'm fairly sure that Microsoft have removed WMC functionality from within explorer itself because on 1703, when any of the WMC buttons is pressed, explorer fires up ehtray and then ehshell. On 1709 it does absolutely nothing. I tried restoring changed parts of 1703 onto the 1709 PC but all that achieved was a broken PC so I've basically given up now and am using a combination of Event Ghost and the ehtray starter script.
Thanks I'll give that a shot tonight and report back if this works. Tried xinso's workaround for setting IPv4 DNS to 8.8.8.8 restarted everything and didn't have any luck. As a side note Win10 update to 1709 (coming from 1511) also blew up my ethernet (would go out every hour), where I had to tweak some settings on adapter to disable "Green Ethernet" and "Energy Efficient Ethernet" found under the "Advanced" tab as well as not letting adapter go to sleep. Maybe this will help someone else who is having issue-- I kept rebooting either pc / router to get around for a week or so.
I seem to have encountered an interface bug in live tv which has recurred even after a system re-install (though not immediately). When I press the onscreen guide button or the "..." button to its left, despite a brief flash the miniguide or options list does not appear. Additionally, although program info shows correctly when I right-click during a video/tv, trying to move right or left to the next tab just makes the gui disappear. I'm using v12 on 1709, but previously it also happened with v8.8.1. I have used mychannellogos and ModernMediaUI so could be to do with one of those. Apologies if this is a previously covered issue, I have tried searching.