Windows Vista Forums
Vista Forums Home Join Vista Forums Windows 7 Forum Vista Tutorials Tags
Welcome to Windows Vista Forums. Our forum is dedicated to helping you find solutions with any problems, errors or issues you are experiencing with Windows Vista. The Vista forum also covers news and updates and has an extensive Windows Vista tutorial section that covers a wide range of tips and tricks.

Go Back   Vista Forums > Vista Newsgroups > Vista General

Vista - Problem with Windows Media Center in Vista -

Reply
 
Old 11-04-2007   #1 (permalink)
windsurfing_stew


 
 

Problem with Windows Media Center in Vista -

I'm hoping that someone in the group can assit. I have a new HP
Pavilion laptop with Vista Home Premium, or at least I've had it for
the past 6 weeks and have loved it, however WMC throws errors during
repetitive tasks. This is frequent enough that it has rendered WMC
unusuable. The specific error is:

An unhandled exception ('.NullReferenceException.4313665F') occurred
in ehrec.exe [3788].

My product version is:

Windows Media Center
Windows Vista
Version 6.0.6000.16484

The only two pieces of software which I have installed recently are
yahoo messenger and Microsoft Silverlight. I suspec that the latter
may be the cause. Either that or WMC has just got itself in a twist.

I have tried system restore to a point about a week ago with no
success.

My question is - how can I fix this without reinstalling Vista? MS in
their wisdom seem to have made it impossible to uninstall and re-
install WMC in Vista HP.

Any assistance or guidance would be appreciated!

Stewart


My System SpecsSystem Spec
Old 11-04-2007   #2 (permalink)
windsurfing_stew


 
 

Re: Problem with Windows Media Center in Vista -

With a lot of reading up on other posts and a bit of bravery I fixed
this problem myself. It turns out that WMC had got itself confused.
Deleting a few files wiped out the corruption. I followed the
following procedure.

1) Closed WMC
1) Deleted ProgramData/Microsoft/eHome/mediacenterdatastore.db
2) Deleted ProgramData/Microsoft/eHome/Recordings/Recordings.xml
3) Ran Windows/eHome/mcUpdate.exe - u
5) Opened WMC

Ok... I'm happy again.

My System SpecsSystem Spec
Old 12-05-2007   #3 (permalink)
Nicalaine


 
 

Re: Problem with Windows Media Center in Vista -

Where do you find the following files?
1) Deleted ProgramData/Microsoft/eHome/mediacenterdatastore.db
2) Deleted ProgramData/Microsoft/eHome/Recordings/Recordings.xml
3) Ran Windows/eHome/mcUpdate.exe - u



My System SpecsSystem Spec
Reply

Thread Tools


Similar Threads
Thread Forum
4 gig problem = green screen in windows media center for vista Vista General
Random Blue Screen when using Windows Vista / Media Center problem Vista General
Windows Vista Home Premium- problem with media center Vista General
Windows Media Center problem .... Vista General
Vista RC1, Windows Media Center S3/S4 problem Vista General


Vista Forums is an independent web site and has not been authorized,
sponsored, or otherwise approved by Microsoft Corporation.
"Windows Vista", the Start Orb, and related materials are trademarks of Microsoft Corp.
© Designer Media Ltd

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46