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error...Media Center only works on Windows XP Media Center Edition hugh 12-23-2006
Posted by hugh on December 23, 2006, 3:48 pm
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 Been using Media Center 2005 for about a year, works great. HD crash,
installed new HD, then did Windows ASR (Automatic System Recovery) by booting
to the Media Center 2005 OEM CD. Nothing happens when I push the start button
on the microsoft remote control. From the desktop, if I hit start, then Media
Center gives the above error message. Here's the really weird
part....Properties of My Computer shows the O/S to be Microsoft Windows XP
Pro v2002 SP2.



Posted by Anando [MVP] on December 23, 2006, 7:21 pm
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 Hugh,

You are looking at the wrong place for your Media Center version. More info
in the article below:

How to determine the version of Media Center that you are running
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;837707

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> Been using Media Center 2005 for about a year, works great. HD crash,
> installed new HD, then did Windows ASR (Automatic System Recovery) by
> booting
> to the Media Center 2005 OEM CD. Nothing happens when I push the start
> button
> on the microsoft remote control. From the desktop, if I hit start, then
> Media
> Center gives the above error message. Here's the really weird
> part....Properties of My Computer shows the O/S to be Microsoft Windows XP
> Pro v2002 SP2.
>
>



Posted by Jason Tsang on December 23, 2006, 7:48 pm
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If it says Professional, you likely installed it wrong (as it should/would
say Media Center).

Sounds like you entered a XP Professional key and as a result, the MCE bits
didn't install.

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> Been using Media Center 2005 for about a year, works great. HD crash,
> installed new HD, then did Windows ASR (Automatic System Recovery) by
> booting
> to the Media Center 2005 OEM CD. Nothing happens when I push the start
> button
> on the microsoft remote control. From the desktop, if I hit start, then
> Media
> Center gives the above error message. Here's the really weird
> part....Properties of My Computer shows the O/S to be Microsoft Windows XP
> Pro v2002 SP2.
>
>



Posted by hugh on March 18, 2007, 6:06 pm
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The correct answer for this problem is to add a new registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\WPA\MediaCenter
Installed="1"



"hugh" wrote:

> Been using Media Center 2005 for about a year, works great. HD crash,
> installed new HD, then did Windows ASR (Automatic System Recovery) by booting
> to the Media Center 2005 OEM CD. Nothing happens when I push the start button
> on the microsoft remote control. From the desktop, if I hit start, then Media
> Center gives the above error message. Here's the really weird
> part....Properties of My Computer shows the O/S to be Microsoft Windows XP
> Pro v2002 SP2.
>
>

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