Vista - Connection Terminated-MCE Extender setup

Hello,

I have tried everything that I could find on the net in the last week, and this is my last step before I call Microsoft. I cannot access media center on my 360.

What I have:

Custom PC 2 years old.
Vista 64x SP1
EVGA MOBO 680i 122-ck-nf68
XFX GTS 8800 640 mb
PC Tools Spyware Doctor with AV & Registery Mechanic
Original x-box 360 w/ new dashboard downloaded
D-link dir-655 router (upgraded from linksys wrt54g to see if this was cause)

My problem:

My problem started last week when I tried to hook up my 360 as an extender. It connected to my vista pc with no problem but when I tried to play an internet video, my x-box would lock up. Note: that my own pictures and videos played fine and some of the internet videos, like "news", played fine also.

Before I got carried away with diagnosis I thought I would check for updates on my pc. First, I found that my old Antivirus software was now available for 64bit OS so I dumped McAfee (hated Mcafee) and reloaded PC tools Spyware Dr. w/ AV & decided to purchase Reg Mechanic also at the same time. I ran the AV and Registery Mechanic and fixed all errors and then retried to run the videos on the MCE x-box. Now I get either "Connection Terminated" or "Connection Failed" every time I try to set it up.

On my x-box (btw, I have a WIRED x-box connection to my router) I go to System Settings>>Network Settings>>Test Pc Connection and choose my PC, the results are "Network: Connected" and "PC: Connected". I go to Test Windows Media Center and I get "Network: Connected" and "Windows Media Center: Connected". AND my x-box LIVE is also connected.

I go to my Vista Media Center>Settings>Extender>X-box 360 MCE> the Status is "Ready to use" until I try to use Media Center on my X-box then the status changes to "set up but not available".

What I have tried:

Obviously, the first thing I tried was to turn off my Syware Doctor w/ AV and to restore changes made by my Registery Mechanic. No help.

Second was to upgrade my 54mbps router to 108 mbps VISTA ready router...no help.

Then I tried all the web help stuff...too much to list but I still can't get it to work.

I did notice in "Event viewer" for Media Center that I get a ton of 301 event ID with an Error code: 0x80070005. I go to the Microsoft Technet and the 0x80070005 code isn't even listed for 301.

I also disabled the Group Policy settings, uninstalled and reinstalled MC updates, set my security settings to "public" then back to "private", checked for firewall settings (only have windows firewall) and I updated all my firmware and software.

I am no expert with this stuff and I would just like some help. Sorry for the long story. Can anyone please help???
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Try uninstalling the 360 connection within Network Connections and then remove the connection to the PC from the 360. After this turn both the PC and xbox off, boot the PC followed by the 360. It should reconnect and sort out the problem.

I removed and uninstalled everything from x-box and pc regarding each other and started all over. There is no difference.

I got "Connection Failed". Sometimes I get this error and other times I get "Connection Terminated".

My ultimate goal here is to drop my cable and use Media Center to record TV. I sure wish I could figure this out.

By chance I left my "Network Connections" screen up while the x-box tried to reconnect several times. Each time it did this the "X-box 360 Extender" would show up for about 2 seconds on screen, right next to the "X-box 360". It would then dissapear from my pc screen and on my TV screen I get the "Connection Terminated".

My thought is that I actually do have interference or network congestion like the error code says. My first thought would be virus but I know I don't have one.

I do have a lot of services running. Maybe one of those is giving me headaches...

Resolved...Sort of..

Turning off Spyware Doctor didn't help but maybe I didn't reboot.

What I finally found was this..

Start>(type in box) "System">click continue> then check the box that says "hide all microsoft services"> then uncheck PC Tools Security Service then> apply>ok> and reboot the pc.

Extender now works but I am not sure how to have both working at the same time yet.

For fix view previous post.

Extender Connection Issues