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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: tbone66 on November 22, 2003, 11:25:53 am
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Hey everybody. I seem to be the only having problems with MC going into mini-me mode. The program freezes every time.
Decided to set the startup option for MC to mini-me mode to see if that might help. Well, the program launches - but I can't see it. The process is running, but the app is not visible.
Welllll, without the program visible, I can't get to the Options settings to change startup back to mega-me. I'm looking at various .ini files, but haven't come across the setting I need to revert to starting in the mega-me mode. Reinstallation did not overwrite that setting either.
Thanks in advance for any help on this. Guess I'm stuck running mega-me mode until I can determine just why the heck moving from build .291 to .305 caused mini-me to become no-me.
T
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I once had a 'bad' skin which caused MC to become 'invisible' and left me unable to get to my settings . . . . in my case I just went to the skins page on the web and downloaded another skin. Since the new skin install causes MC to change to that new skin I was once again able to see MC so as to modify the skin settings.
Perhaps that will get you access to your start options.
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The process is running, but the app is not visible.
it may just be off screen
enlarging the screen size may allow it to be found easly
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Tried installing new mini-me skins from the skin manager as well as a straight dl without the program running. No change in either case.
Did discover that MC will enter mini-me mode under other profiles on this machine! Obviously, there is a problem with a registry setting, user setting, or process that is running under my profile.
I will save desktop items and some other things from this profile, delete it, then re-create it and hope that solves the issue. It is obviously not with the MC exe.
My apologies for not investigating this more deeply than I should (could) have before assuming there was a problem in later builds. Of course, I didn't notice a problem until I updated from .291 so that's what I ran with. I have not installed anything or changed any settings that I am aware of although any number of under the hood processes might have done so.
Thanks to all who provided feedback. MC rocks and so do (most of ;)) the people in this community.
T
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Perhaps I should have been more clear in that I was referring ot downloading a Mega-Me skin to make the program visible again.
Glad you got a handle on it anyway. ;)