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Title: Windows 7 and MC14 - Reinstall after re-boot
Post by: Jedra on September 13, 2009, 09:40:07 am

Hi,

Every time I reboot my Windows 7 Ultimate 64 machine I get the following message from when I try to launch MC14...

'Media Centre was installed for a different operating system.  Please reinstall Media Centre'.

If I reinstall and then install any updates, everything works fine until the next time I re-boot and then the same thing.

I am using the retail version of Win 7 (I am an MSDN member).

Anyone else had this issue?

Regards

Title: Re: Windows 7 and MC14 - Reinstall after re-boot
Post by: edbro on September 13, 2009, 09:48:00 am

I am also running MC on Win 7 Ultimate x64 Retail. I have no such problems.

Are you running in some kind of compatibility mode? Did you do an upgrade install of Windows or a clean install? Did you install in an Admin acct?

Title: Re: Windows 7 and MC14 - Reinstall after re-boot
Post by: Jedra on September 13, 2009, 09:52:01 am

Hi - thanks for your reply.

Win 7 was an in-place upgrade.  I reinstalled MC14 after the upgrade.  It is not running or installed in any compatibilty modes and was installed under the administrator account.

It seems to be a problem AFTER I upgraded to 14065 via the in-application upgrade facility - before that everything was working OK.

As a precaution I have uninstalled MC14 and done a clean install using the 14065 exe rather than via the upgrade.  I am going to reboot now to see if this has fixed the problem!!

Title: Re: Windows 7 and MC14 - Reinstall after re-boot
Post by: edbro on September 13, 2009, 10:08:03 am

I'm betting that will fix it.

Personally, I have never done an upgrade install of an OS. I always install clean, install updates, then immediately make an image of the install. I'm kind of anal about my system. About every 6 months I will wipe the drive clean then reapply the image for a fresh start.

Title: Re: Windows 7 and MC14 - Reinstall after re-boot
Post by: shawnholt on January 23, 2010, 07:30:14 pm

Same issue after reboot.

Title: Re: Windows 7 and MC14 - Reinstall after re-boot
Post by: Matt on January 23, 2010, 07:53:05 pm

Solution here:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=54581.msg379158;topicseen#msg379158

Please let us know what the registry was set to before changing it.

Thanks!