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Hi All, Just wanted to share with you all of my experience with moving up to Windows 8.1. I decided it was time to start new so I installed Windows 8 Pro from the USB I had made. All went well after a format of C:\. So I decided to head to Microsoft Store to get the upgrade to...

I am downloading Windows 8.1 from the Store as I write this. It just showed up in the Store @ 06:00 MST One can keep working while it is in progress. Just felt it worth mentioning that what is being given, for free, is Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Centre. And there is a plethora of Store APPs...

Hi All, Just curious about the Media Center that I was able to get free with Windows 8 pro. In Windows 8 it was a separate download. Is the Media Center included with windows 8.1 pro? Or when I upgrade to 8.1 next month will it be available for me to download free...

Hi, I love Windows Media Center, I use it everyday. I have religiously tagged all my ALBUMS to be as I want them. When I play them, I get that lovely background of all my album arts slowly tracking downwards as the waterfall wallpaper. BACKGROUND: The other day, I decided to add all my...

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.1 (July 9, 2013): Bulletin revised to announce a detection change in the Windows Vista packages for the 2579686 update to correct a Windows Update reoffering issue. This is a detection change only. Customers who have already successfully updated their...

The upgrade went perfectly smooth up until the License Terms screen appeared. I had no way to click on "Agree" because the OS would not accept any input. My keyboard and mouse appeared dead. I tried all the other USB ports and the mini 6-pin mouse socket. After I rebooted and Windows 8 Pro...

Win7 x64 SP1 PRO Office PC Win7 x32/x86 SP1 PRO Media Center PC Issue: How to adjust NAS drive(s) spin up frequency, check to see what is causing them to come out of sleep mode. NAS's are set to power down currently @5mins. Trying to figure out what is causing them to "Wake-up" and how to...

I have changed my HTPC from a tower to the HTPC case. New everything except the Ceton InfiniTV 4 PCI card/cable card. Have identical Windows 7/64 Pro systems. Tried to copy all the power / sleep settings. New HTPC system will not sleep when it should. It is set to sleep after 10 minutes...

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Just installed Win8 Pro and bought the Media Center add on. I run an i7-3770k, 16Gb ram, GTX 780 3Gb video card and have 2 25" monitors. Now when I play a game on display 1 and have Media Center running Live TV on display 2, Media Center stutters, freezes. As soon as I close the game on...

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While trying to address another issue, I selected to open a program with default program. I evidently chose Windows Media Center. Now, no matter what I do, WMC pops up. It pops up even when I try to open Freecell. Tried to do a system resore but it gives me an "unspecified error". My Live...

I have a problem with accessing files on a second internal hard drive that I believe is related to Media Center. Running Windows 7 there were two file folders on my second internal hard drive that I store photos and videos in. I added those to my library in WMC and was able to view files via...

I am using Win 7 Home Premium 64 bit. I have a Ceton InfinityTV PCI card and yesterday I had a update to the Ceton hardware and needed to run WMC setup again. As I was setting up the guide I found one channels listing showed "No Data Available". I have tried manual updating the guide listings...

OK, new to the site, but I'm asking for help, as I have an annoying problem - I installed Windows 8 on Jan 28 and finally got my computer back to *just* the way I like it about a week later. Since then, I have had random freezes/reboots (no BSOD) every couple of hours. The screen will completely...

I have been setting up a HTPC using Windows 8. The when the Hauppauge HVR-2250 is working, I have one local channel that will not show guide info., do I cannot record using the schedule. I have looked for information about content protection for Over the Air TV broadcasts, but cannot find...

I have three computers all running Windows 7 Ultimate x64, one of which functions partly as a media center (hosting music etc), the second and third being my office workstation and laptop respectively. The media center has a hard line to my cable modem (via Trendnet wireless-N router) while the...

When I connect my HDTV to the laptop with an HDMI cable nothing shows on the TV, even when the TV is selected in Catalyst control panel. If I restart the laptop the TV will show what the Laptop screen shows until the laptop reaches the windows start screen then it goes blank. I would like to use...

Hi everyone, I'm having some issues with my sound through HDMI. I have my computer running through my amplifier to my TV and had decided to upgrade to a SSD drive. Previously I was running Win7 32bit and had the AMD drivers installed for my ATI Radeon HD 5450 card and the sound worked fine...