I am probably doing something wrong but for the first time I have failed to get WMC to run on a new build of Windows 10. I have just installed 2004 (Build 19041.264) and failed to install WMC successfully using your WMC-V13_X64 files. I was under the impression that this included all the "add-ons" necessary in respect of DLLs etc. Am I wrong in this assumption and I should run the various tools separately? It may be because I am getting an access denied message. Do I need to change permissions for the Program data folder first? Below is my installation report after running _TestRights.cmd successfully. When I use the toolkit to check the DLL versions is see they are still 19041. "Detected Windows build: 19041 Copying files... Creating hard links Setting attributes... Access denied - C:\ProgramData Installing assemblies... Creating services... [SC] CreateService SUCCESS [SC] CreateService SUCCESS [SC] CreateService SUCCESS Updating registry settings... Creating scheduled tasks... Setting access permissions... Enabling the stock MPEG2 Codecs trough the DVD Player app... The DVDplayer app is already installed, skipping installation Done. Press any key to exit."
I don't understand why you are getting Access Denied - I've never seen that error. The only thing I can think of is this: did you wait for Windows to finish installing all the things it likes to install and restart the PC before trying to install WMC? I installed the latest 64 bit version of WMC V13 on 2004 yesterday without any problem. The add-ons are scripts that need to be run after the installation. The function of each script is described in 'known issues.txt'. I didn't build the workarounds into the installer because not everyone needs or wants them.
Many thanks for your quick response. I had let Windows finish installing everything to the extent of checking Windows Update again at the end and then rebooting a couple for times for good measure. I have now tried again and still got the access error but carried on anyway. I then ran the dll and SQL fixes and was delighted to find the WMC was back working as well as ever. It found my Blackgold Twin DVB2 Tuners and scanned 164 channels so all is well. WMC lives to fight another day! Many thanks for all your hard work and advice,
That's great. I'm going to have to check out that error though - it is very strange. edit: Still no error for me on 2004. Anyone else seen this access denied on install please?
WMC won't start on Windows 10 V2004 build 19640.mn_release.200530-1731. Error 1000 in event log Code: Faulting application name: ehshell.exe, version: 6.3.9600.16384, time stamp: 0x5215efc2 Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 10.0.19640.1, time stamp: 0xb106ec11 Exception code: 0xe0434352 Fault offset: 0x000000000002361c Faulting process ID: 0x1950 Faulting application start time: 0x01d63a8d79626529 Faulting application path: C:\WINDOWS\ehome\ehshell.exe Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\System32\KERNELBASE.dll Report ID: 3ded6a66-4a23-410d-a787-23723f72d08b Faulting package full name: Faulting package-relative application ID: and Error 1026 in event log Code: Application: ehshell.exe Framework Version: v4.0.30319 Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception. Exception Info: System.InvalidOperationException at MediaCenter.Store.SqlLite.SqlLiteErr.LogAndThrowException(Int32, System.String, System.Object[]) at MediaCenter.Store.SqlLite.ObjectStore.Open(System.String) at MediaCenter.Store.SqlLite.ObjectStoreManager.Open(System.String, Boolean) at Microsoft.MediaCenter.Store.ObjectStore.Open(System.String, System.String, System.String, System.Reflection.Assembly, Boolean) Exception Info: System.InvalidOperationException at Microsoft.MediaCenter.Store.ObjectStore.Open(System.String, System.String, System.String, System.Reflection.Assembly, Boolean) at Microsoft.MediaCenter.Store.ObjectStore.Open(System.String, System.String, System.String, Boolean) at Microsoft.MediaCenter.Store.ObjectStore.AddObjectStoreReference() at Microsoft.MediaCenter.Store.ObjectStore.get_DefaultSingleton() at ServiceBus.UIFramework.UserControlPoint.Launch(System.String) This is one of my test bed PCs on the insider fast ring. WMC was working fine yesterday on whatever build I had and today, after I got this one, I removed WMC, rebooted and reinstalled WMC. Reapplied all my workarounds and rebooted and now WMC doesn't work. There are a load of errors about ESENT as well, which I hadn't seen until this afternoon. Anyone else got the same thing or did the upgrade fritz my PC?
rolled system back to and it is working again. I'll try upgrading a fresh install tomorrow. edit: looks like a one off as it is OK now and other people are reporting that it works as well nah. It was a typo in my roll back dlls utility. I've uploaded a fixed version
I need to update my Win 10 Pro to a more current version but I am unsure if I should to continue using WMC with a cablecard tuner. I read the 1st post again about the lack of a work around for cablecard tuners since the W10 Anniversary update back in 2016. Is this still true? I need to update my .net and cannot do it or add any windows apps because I am running Win ver. 1511 (build 10586.104) Is there a way to update using cablecard tuner or am I just out of luck?
Unfortunately, Microsoft changed the DRM mechanism in Windows 10 after the version you have and protected channels no longer work on cable cards. As far as I know, there's nothing that can be done to get round the issue and I'm not sure there ever will be. I'm beginning to think the same thing applies to extenders.
What about non-DRM content with HDHomeRun Prime CableCARD tuners? Does that work in Windows 10 WMC? I just updated to Windows 10 and am trying to figure this out and 500 pages of comments is TL/DR! LOL
This is outside the scope of my knowledge really but I think the answer is - it depends. I believe that some people have HDHomeRun working in MWC on later versions (although not the cable card functioning). But it seems very hit and miss and is something to do with .NET and driver versions I think. There has been some discussion of The Green Button as well. More reading I'm afraid.
If the CableCARD isn't working then they only receive ClearQAM I believe. Those channels are in the "Basic Cable" package and do not include much more than local OTA channels. Bummer!
Well, as I said, the DRM mechanism was changed and I think there's virtually no chance that anyone could work round it as it would require proprietary information the companies aren't going to give up because they would lose their revenue stream. I'm quite prepared for someone to correct me as this isn't something I know much (anything, really) about because we don't use the system here.
I'm not so worried about the DRM part of the CableCARD. A LOT of my content is in the clear, not copy protected with DRM, but is encrypted and the CableCARD needs to decrypt it. It is this content that I'm interested in.
Works fine on fresh install windows 10 2004 french with mssqllite patch. So happy, thank you so much!
The call stack you're showing of an exception out of MediaCenter.Store.SqlLite.ObjectStore.Open looks like the same one I just resolved even on the public released Windows 10 2004 by applying the SQL Lite fix from your list. Running now successfully here too; using the WMC-V8.8.4 package for what it's worth. I had to give up on trying to let the script use NSudoC.exe, though. Between Chrome and Windows Defender, no one wanted to let that software exist. Frankly I wasn't sure whether I wanted to either. Applying the fix using Administrators rights rather than LocalSystem seemed to work just fine though, at least for the SQL Lite fix.
Agree that the info I posted looked very much like the original problem reported in September but because it was a long time ago, it would have been difficult to find. However, even after successfully reinstating the DLLs and registry settings it didn't resolve the issue so I believe it was something else. WMC is working fine on another PC with 19640 after using the same method though. Missing SQL Lite causes same problem with all versions of WMC but I've never had a problem with using NSudoC on any PC myself so can't speak to that.
I didn't read back through the entire thread to see whether I was having an expected experience or not. I can't disagree that this isn't just a one-off issue unique to this system, since I haven't tried elsewhere yet. But what happens for me is that when I download the SQL Lite fix .zip file, it downloads and extracts without any warnings, but the NSudoC application the script tries to run from the included /bin/ folder simply does not exist. When viewing the contents of the .ZIP file with Microsoft's in-box zipfolder support, the NSudoC program simply isn't part of the .zip file. So trying to run the installation scripts as-is always failed. Same if I download the .zip through Edge. If I try to pull the NSudo project release directly from github, then Chrome verbosely declares it won't download malicious software. Edge downloads from github, but the extracted NSudoC.exe program still doesn't run when executed. I didn't go so far as to break out the debugger to determine why execution failed. This is all on a Windows 10 Pro x64 HTPC where I don't use any anti-malware except for the in-box Windows Defender, for what it's worth. I do have another Windows 10 HTPC to update this week, so if it doesn't seem like a one-off behavior I'll at least post confirmation. Other than Chrome and LAV Filters, these HTPCs don't have any other anti-malware or general purpose software other than WMC installed. One other thing which does come to mind, for what it's worth: On a web site I run, a few months ago it was noticed that a server-side virus scanning script being performed by the hosting provider was removing a particular old .EXE file out of any .zip files hosted on the web site. Not deleting the .zip file; but simply removing "offending" files from the .zip file. Eventually I had to put that legacy program in a 7-Zip archive instead of .zip so that they would leave it alone. All of which to say; maybe just double-check that the server-side downloads in your list actually still contain all the files you intended them to have.
I'm on a vanilla Windows 10 just updated to version 2004 and same thing happens to me; NSudoC.exe is missing from the zip archive after downloading.