I have a one week old Gateway with Home Premium and a Verizon Express Card. As soon as the Express Card was activated in the Verizon store, Media Center launched and continues to launch every 6-20 seconds over any web page. Gateway blamed Verizon. Verizon directed me here to a tutorial to disable Media Center. I disabled all the Media Center files to include: Extender Service, Receiver Service, Scheduler Service, Service Launcher, and Network Sharing Service. I restarted the computer. Media Center still launches! How can this be? I went back and checked each file - sure enough they all show Media Center disabled. Can Vista Home Basic or Vista Business strip out Media Center? I will never use this feature. Short of bringing the computer back to Office Depot, any suggestions? Thanks.
Media Center Continously Launches
- Thread starter mlhobbs
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z3r010
Staff member
Media Center lives in the c:\windows\ehome\ directory, the main exe is ehshell.exe (or something like that i'm doing this from memory) try renaming ehshell.exe to ehshell1.exe or something, windows might not let you do this but its worth a shot.
My Computers
System One System Two
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- Operating System
- Windows 11 Workstation
- Manufacturer/Model
- doofenshmirtz evil incorporated
- CPU
- Ryzen 9 5950X
- Motherboard
- Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Formula
- Memory
- Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO Black 64GB (4x16GB) 3600MHz AMD Ryzen Tuned DDR4
- Graphics Card(s)
- ASUS AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT 16GB ROG Strix LC OC
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- Creative
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- 3 x27" Dell U2724D & 1 x 34" Dell U3415W
- Hard Drives
- Samsung 980 Pro 1TB M.2 2280 PCI-e 4.0 x4 NVMe Solid State
Drive
- PSU
- 1500W ThermalTake Toughpower
- Case
- ThermalTake Level 10 GT
- Cooling
- Enermax Liqtech 240
- Keyboard
- Surface Ergonomic.
- Mouse
- Logitech Performance MX
- Internet Speed
- 350 Mb/s
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- WinTV NovaTD
HP CP1515n Color Laser
Sony BD-5300S-0B Blu-ray Writer
Microsoft LifeCam Cinema
APC 750i Smart UPS
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- Operating System
- windows 10
- Manufacturer/Model
- Surface Pro 3
- CPU
- 1.9GHz Intel Core i5-4300U (dual-core, 3MB cache, up to 2.9GHz with Turbo Boost)
- Memory
- 4GB
- Graphics card(s)
- Intel HD Graphics 4400
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 12" Multi Touch
- Screen Resolution
- 2160 x 144
- Hard Drives
- 128GB
- Mouse
- Logitech
- Keyboard
- yes
- Internet Speed
- 350 Mb/s
Thanks, I'll try that tonight. I'm about ready to throw the computer out the nearest open window!
My Computer
Rob Redbeard
Power User
mlhobbs -
So, did that fix the problem? Also, this is pretty much a "kludge," so I'd like to know better what actually caused it... How in the world are the verizon express card and media center related??
Rob
So, did that fix the problem? Also, this is pretty much a "kludge," so I'd like to know better what actually caused it... How in the world are the verizon express card and media center related??
Rob
My Computer
System One
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- CPU
- E8400 @ 4.0 Ghz
- Motherboard
- GA-EX38-DS4
- Memory
- OCZ 860MHz 5-5-5-15 1.86v
- Graphics Card(s)
- 2x Sapphire HD 3870 GDDR4
- Hard Drives
- 2x 7200.11 512 32MB cache RAID-0
I finally got Media Center to quit launching by totally disabling it. The last thing I did to finally turn it off was to go into default programs, custom, and uncheck enable Media Center. Nothing else worked. No one could find the conflicted file.