Vista - "Media Center has stopped working"

I have a brand new computer, Dell XPS 410, which came with Vista Ultimate
32-bit preinstalled. For the first couple days, Media Center worked fine and
as intended. It should be noted that I am not using Media Center with any
TV-tuner cards, i am just trying play music and, hopefully, set it up with my
xbox-360.

The problem started about a week after receiving my computer. When I start
up Media Center, after about 20 seconds, whether I try to do anything within
the application or just let it sit, it shuts down and I receive an error
message that Media Center has stopped working. After searching for a solution
online, which it doesn't find, it forces me to close it.

I have searched all over the internet for a solution and cannot find
anything. Has anyone been experiencing this problem and/or have you found a
solution? Hopefully I do not have to reinstall Windows as I have put a lot of
hours into installing various software applications. Is there a way to
uninstall Media Center and reinstall it and/or repair Media Center? Any help
with this problem would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance for your time.

same problem.

no solution yet. I'll let you know if I come up with something.

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Same issue as well with new Dell Dimension 9200 and Vista Home Premium. Have
been looking for a solution for two weeks. Help.

"Greg Kittridge" wrote:

> I have a brand new computer, Dell XPS 410, which came with Vista Ultimate
> 32-bit preinstalled. For the first couple days, Media Center worked fine and
> as intended. It should be noted that I am not using Media Center with any
> TV-tuner cards, i am just trying play music and, hopefully, set it up with my
> xbox-360.
>
> The problem started about a week after receiving my computer. When I start
> up Media Center, after about 20 seconds, whether I try to do anything within
> the application or just let it sit, it shuts down and I receive an error
> message that Media Center has stopped working. After searching for a solution
> online, which it doesn't find, it forces me to close it.
>
> I have searched all over the internet for a solution and cannot find
> anything. Has anyone been experiencing this problem and/or have you found a
> solution? Hopefully I do not have to reinstall Windows as I have put a lot of
> hours into installing various software applications. Is there a way to
> uninstall Media Center and reinstall it and/or repair Media Center? Any help
> with this problem would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance for your time.

I've got the same problem too. It worked for a while and it just stopped
working. However, I get nothing. It goes right to the "Windows Has Stopped
Working" screen. Everything else seems to work ok. Good thing when I
installed Vista I installed on a different partition and use XP when Vista
won't work for what I want to do. Media Center works fine when I boot XP, so
it isn't the hardware.



"Greg Kittridge" wrote:

> I have a brand new computer, Dell XPS 410, which came with Vista Ultimate
> 32-bit preinstalled. For the first couple days, Media Center worked fine and
> as intended. It should be noted that I am not using Media Center with any
> TV-tuner cards, i am just trying play music and, hopefully, set it up with my
> xbox-360.
>
> The problem started about a week after receiving my computer. When I start
> up Media Center, after about 20 seconds, whether I try to do anything within
> the application or just let it sit, it shuts down and I receive an error
> message that Media Center has stopped working. After searching for a solution
> online, which it doesn't find, it forces me to close it.
>
> I have searched all over the internet for a solution and cannot find
> anything. Has anyone been experiencing this problem and/or have you found a
> solution? Hopefully I do not have to reinstall Windows as I have put a lot of
> hours into installing various software applications. Is there a way to
> uninstall Media Center and reinstall it and/or repair Media Center? Any help
> with this problem would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance for your time.

I have a very similar problem. although I am not using an XBOX 360 or any
functions on Media Center as I can't even get that far!

Media Center on my copy of Vista Ultimate has gone through phases - at first
it would load but then I would immediately get the stopped working message
and it would shut down, and then it would get to the setup screen and THEN
shutdown and now I can't get anything to load at all - if I click on Media
Center it just comes up with the Stop Responding message and thats it!

And to make it even wierder if I add another user account and log into that
Media Center is fine on the second account!?

Someone please sort it out!

"Spinstorm" wrote:

> I have a very similar problem. although I am not using an XBOX 360 or any
> functions on Media Center as I can't even get that far!
>
> Media Center on my copy of Vista Ultimate has gone through phases - at first
> it would load but then I would immediately get the stopped working message
> and it would shut down, and then it would get to the setup screen and THEN
> shutdown and now I can't get anything to load at all - if I click on Media
> Center it just comes up with the Stop Responding message and thats it!
>
> And to make it even wierder if I add another user account and log into that
> Media Center is fine on the second account!?
>
> Someone please sort it out!

I've been having this same problem. I just installed a TV Tuner card and set
up my TV in Media Center and now whenever I try and open it it just says
"...has stopped working" and nothing else. I can't find how to re-install,
troubleshoot, etc. anywhere! I've tried disabling everythin else that may be
conflicting, but nothing is working.

"Spinstorm" wrote:

> I have a very similar problem. although I am not using an XBOX 360 or any
> functions on Media Center as I can't even get that far!
>
> Media Center on my copy of Vista Ultimate has gone through phases - at first
> it would load but then I would immediately get the stopped working message
> and it would shut down, and then it would get to the setup screen and THEN
> shutdown and now I can't get anything to load at all - if I click on Media
> Center it just comes up with the Stop Responding message and thats it!
>
> And to make it even wierder if I add another user account and log into that
> Media Center is fine on the second account!?
>
> Someone please sort it out!

Same problem on a brand new, fully loaded HP!


"Greg Kittridge" wrote:

> I have a brand new computer, Dell XPS 410, which came with Vista Ultimate
> 32-bit preinstalled. For the first couple days, Media Center worked fine and
> as intended. It should be noted that I am not using Media Center with any
> TV-tuner cards, i am just trying play music and, hopefully, set it up with my
> xbox-360.
>
> The problem started about a week after receiving my computer. When I start
> up Media Center, after about 20 seconds, whether I try to do anything within
> the application or just let it sit, it shuts down and I receive an error
> message that Media Center has stopped working. After searching for a solution
> online, which it doesn't find, it forces me to close it.
>
> I have searched all over the internet for a solution and cannot find
> anything. Has anyone been experiencing this problem and/or have you found a
> solution? Hopefully I do not have to reinstall Windows as I have put a lot of
> hours into installing various software applications. Is there a way to
> uninstall Media Center and reinstall it and/or repair Media Center? Any help
> with this problem would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance for your time.

"Dworakd" wrote:

> Same problem on a brand new, fully loaded HP!
>
>
> "Greg Kittridge" wrote:
>
> > I have a brand new computer, Dell XPS 410, which came with Vista Ultimate
> > 32-bit preinstalled. For the first couple days, Media Center worked fine and
> > as intended. It should be noted that I am not using Media Center with any
> > TV-tuner cards, i am just trying play music and, hopefully, set it up with my
> > xbox-360.
> >
> > The problem started about a week after receiving my computer. When I start
> > up Media Center, after about 20 seconds, whether I try to do anything within
> > the application or just let it sit, it shuts down and I receive an error
> > message that Media Center has stopped working. After searching for a solution
> > online, which it doesn't find, it forces me to close it.
> >
> > I have searched all over the internet for a solution and cannot find
> > anything. Has anyone been experiencing this problem and/or have you found a
> > solution? Hopefully I do not have to reinstall Windows as I have put a lot of
> > hours into installing various software applications. Is there a way to
> > uninstall Media Center and reinstall it and/or repair Media Center? Any help
> > with this problem would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance for your time.

"Dworakd" wrote:

> Same problem on a brand new, fully loaded HP!
>
>
> "Greg Kittridge" wrote:
>
> > I have a brand new computer, Dell XPS 410, which came with Vista Ultimate
> > 32-bit preinstalled. For the first couple days, Media Center worked fine and
> > as intended. It should be noted that I am not using Media Center with any
> > TV-tuner cards, i am just trying play music and, hopefully, set it up with my
> > xbox-360.
> >
> > The problem started about a week after receiving my computer. When I start
> > up Media Center, after about 20 seconds, whether I try to do anything within
> > the application or just let it sit, it shuts down and I receive an error
> > message that Media Center has stopped working. After searching for a solution
> > online, which it doesn't find, it forces me to close it.
> >
> > I have searched all over the internet for a solution and cannot find
> > anything. Has anyone been experiencing this problem and/or have you found a
> > solution? Hopefully I do not have to reinstall Windows as I have put a lot of
> > hours into installing various software applications. Is there a way to
> > uninstall Media Center and reinstall it and/or repair Media Center? Any help
> > with this problem would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance for your time.