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Author Topic: How do I reverse the effects of "Disable Windows Media Center"?  (Read 1899 times)

cncb

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How do I reverse the effects of "Disable Windows Media Center"?
« on: September 06, 2009, 03:54:17 pm »

I checked this to try it out but now Windows (7) Media Center is no longer accessible from the remote or even the Start Menu.  When I go into the MC options this is always unchecked so there seems to be no way to "toggle" it back.
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Re: How do I reverse the effects of "Disable Windows Media Center"?
« Reply #1 on: September 06, 2009, 03:57:31 pm »

Under Remote setup in MC, try unchecking the devices.
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Re: How do I reverse the effects of "Disable Windows Media Center"?
« Reply #2 on: September 06, 2009, 04:24:56 pm »

I checked this to try it out but now Windows (7) Media Center is no longer accessible from the remote or even the Start Menu.  When I go into the MC options this is always unchecked so there seems to be no way to "toggle" it back.

Same here! Win7, too.
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Re: How do I reverse the effects of "Disable Windows Media Center"?
« Reply #3 on: September 06, 2009, 04:49:52 pm »

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I reinstalled MCE component through the control panel after

Win7 x32&64
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Re: How do I reverse the effects of "Disable Windows Media Center"?
« Reply #4 on: September 07, 2009, 03:42:26 am »

I get the message
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This program is blocked by group policy. [...]
I took a look at group policy setting but nothing is blocked there. So MCE still not running for me...
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Re: How do I reverse the effects of "Disable Windows Media Center"?
« Reply #5 on: September 07, 2009, 07:21:54 am »

If Media Server is running, stop it.
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Re: How do I reverse the effects of "Disable Windows Media Center"?
« Reply #6 on: September 07, 2009, 08:54:26 am »

I stopped all JRiver Services and Programs running. I assured that everything is stopped via Taskmanager. But MCE still comes up with the same message. Pressing green button at my remote: nothing happens.

After setting the option to disable MCE and then restarting MC, the option is shown as unset again but MCE still doesn't start :(

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Reinstalling MCE did the trick for me, too.
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Re: How do I reverse the effects of "Disable Windows Media Center"?
« Reply #7 on: September 08, 2009, 03:23:59 pm »

It seems like there should be a warning about checking this option if the only way to reverse it is to "reinstall" WMC.
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Re: How do I reverse the effects of "Disable Windows Media Center"?
« Reply #8 on: September 08, 2009, 03:55:38 pm »

It's just a bug that the checkbox stays cleared.

It'll be fixed in a coming build.

You can also set this manually in Control Panel 'Program Defaults' or similar.

Thanks.
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