My media centre *not media player* stops working shortly after it starts - it goes full screen then asks me which setup I'd like to choose and no matter what I choose it dies shortly (1 or 2 seconds) after, saying the media centre has stopped working.

I've tried changing the media centre services to log on with my admin account which I've heard works but to no avail and I've installed all the hotfixes (up until Oct 4) but to no avail. I can't really see any events in my event viewer specifically related to it dying - I do get some critical events which I think are for the media centre crashes but no specifics on whats causing them.

I've had vista premium x64 pretty much since its release and I can't remember media centre ever working. Problem is now various programs are using it more and more I get the media centre has stopped popups all over the place as they're trying to play videos (mostly games) which is really annoying.



Anybody else had these problems? Even better has anybody managed to fix them if they have?

Ok the events seem to be unrelated - its just when I boot the following driver fails to load 'i8042prt' which is to do with my keyboard and mouse ps2 port which I'm not using as mine are all usb. I actually don't get any critical events and the error events I have seem unrelated as above. I have a warning to do with SQLbrowser on boot up.

So specs are Intel Core Duo 2 E6600 2.4Ghz overclocked to 2.7Ghz, 2048MB RAM, Nvidia 8800 GTS 320MB, on board sound (Realtek High Definition Audio), a disabled EMU 0404 although I didn't have this until after I noticed media centre crashes, MSI Platinum P965, 2 WD Raptor 160MB drives in RAID 0 and 2 Seagate 320MB in RAID 1.

I run Vista x64 Home Premium (I think build 6000 - its authentic) with NVidia Forceware 163.69 drivers - I have no driver problems as far as device manager goes. If you need anymore info let me know - I've trauled all the forums I can find to little avail - thanks for your time.

Ah great cheers I didn't know about that utility sadly it reported no integrity violations - which is good on one hand I suppose...

Hmm any more ideas? I'm sure event viewer should be telling me about those programs crashes - is there any reason why it wouldnt or is it just not with its remit?

Nope sadly it just brings up the wanting to setup dialog and then promptly dies as per normal.

One thing I have noticed is that a 50 in small window used to come up toward the top right of the screen and now it says 46 - very much doubt this is to do with anything I just wonder what its counting down... (this is starting to turn out like an episode of Lost)

Right this is interesting I don't have that path - under users I have default, public and my account no 'All Users' I just tried creating that path manually but no luck.

I've also tried disabling my virus scanner - Kaspersky and my user account control but alas no luck either - I've ran the Media Centre shortcut as admin as well during this time.

It seems also that on first try after boot it gets a little further than on subsequent times - may be its trying to connect to something or I suppose its most probably due to be caching kicking in on the second time.

What are the names of the media centre logs I'll try and search for them in case windows has decided to bury it away in another location.