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More => Old Versions => Media Center 14 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: AoXoMoXoA on July 04, 2009, 10:43:48 am

Title: JRservice.exe
Post by: AoXoMoXoA on July 04, 2009, 10:43:48 am: What is it?
What does it do?
Why is it running in the background?
And how come when I force it closed I see no change in MC's behavior?

Can't find it with a search here or in Google.
Just curious.
Title: Re: JRservice.exe
Post by: StFeder on July 04, 2009, 11:02:57 am: Was added in MC 14.0.21:
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4. NEW: Player installs "Media Center 14 Service" that runs only when the player is running to allow talking to hardware (for remotes, handhelds, etc.) when UAC is enabled.
Title: Re: JRservice.exe
Post by: AoXoMoXoA on July 04, 2009, 11:22:18 am: I saw that but passed it by without paying attention since UAC pertains to Vista and I use only XP.

thanks for the reply
Title: Re: JRservice.exe
Post by: StFeder on July 05, 2009, 09:09:12 am: Hm, you're right. So shouldn't it only get installed under vista/7 ?
Title: Re: JRservice.exe
Post by: AoXoMoXoA on July 05, 2009, 09:53:29 am: Quote from: StFeder on July 05, 2009, 09:09:12 am
Hm, you're right. So shouldn't it only get installed under vista/7 ?

Matt?
Jim?

Someone?
Title: Re: JRservice.exe
Post by: Dirhael on July 05, 2009, 01:45:03 pm: Quote from: StFeder on July 05, 2009, 09:09:12 am
Hm, you're right. So shouldn't it only get installed under vista/7 ?

Not really, because there are people (hopefully many of them) running WinXP with limited profiles, or at least internet-facing applications with limited rights. After all, doing so is one of the best defenses you have against malware :)
Title: Re: JRservice.exe
Post by: Matt on July 05, 2009, 03:15:50 pm: It will be used on all flavors of Windows. It only runs when Media Center is running, and consumes no cycles when not used.

Personally I don't like that Microsoft forces us down this road, but it's the only way to communicate with hardware in Vista and now Windows 7.

I think there may be an issue with the service at Windows shutdown time if Media Center is running. This will get fixed in a coming build.
Title: Re: JRservice.exe
Post by: StFeder on July 05, 2009, 04:38:10 pm: Quote from: Dirhael on July 05, 2009, 01:45:03 pm
Not really, because there are people (hopefully many of them) running WinXP with limited profiles, or at least internet-facing applications with limited rights.
Hm, limited profiles have nothing / not much in common with UAC I think...
Title: Re: JRservice.exe
Post by: Dirhael on July 05, 2009, 05:24:18 pm: Quote from: StFeder on July 05, 2009, 04:38:10 pm
Hm, limited profiles have nothing / not much in common with UAC I think...

Sure it does, UAC is pretty much just a way of making a limited/restricted user profile more usable by prompting for elevated rights when required (yes, there are more to it than this but still...).
Title: Re: JRservice.exe (and JRTools and WMHelper)
Post by: mrwul on April 27, 2015, 12:23:20 am: Questions:
- is JRService.exe required?
- what is JRTools
- in what way are they related to WMHelper.dll