Windows 7 W7 Media Center missing Internet TV (and thus Netflix)

[guthrie]

I have a system with W7 Pro (upgraded from Vista Home Premium), and running Windows Media Center.
I have a sibling system with W7 Pro also on it, and WMC works fine, and I have Internet TV, Sports, TV program guide, and Netflix on it.


On the problematic system, I have none of those. I have only TV, and recorded shows (none). I have done the Download now several times, and it always seems to work, logs say it worked, but no change in the menu.


How do I get Internet TV & Netflix on this system?
(I added WMC to the firewall allow programs list).


Log Name: Media Center
Source: MCUpdate
Date: 3/26/2010 2:35:41 PM
Event ID: 0
Task Category: None
Level: Information
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: ggMedia
Description:
2:35:08 PM - Testing internet connection.
2:35:31 PM - Connection established.
2:35:32 PM - Retrieving Directory.
2:35:32 PM - Processing Directory.
2:35:32 PM - Processing of Directory is complete.
2:35:32 PM - Testing internet connection.
2:35:32 PM - Connection established.
2:35:33 PM - Retrieving SportsSchedule.
2:35:33 PM - Processing SportsSchedule.
2:35:33 PM - Retrieving SportsSchedule.enc.
2:35:36 PM - Extracting SportsSchedule.mxf.
2:35:36 PM - Processing SportsSchedule.mxf.
2:35:37 PM - Processing of SportsSchedule is complete.
2:35:37 PM - Retrieving SportsV2.
2:35:37 PM - Processing of SportsV2 is complete.
2:35:37 PM - The SportsV2 package is already up to date.
2:35:37 PM - Retrieving NetTV.
2:35:37 PM - Processing of NetTV is complete.
2:35:37 PM - The NetTV package is already up to date.
2:35:37 PM - Retrieving MCESpotlight.
2:35:38 PM - Processing of MCESpotlight is complete.
2:35:38 PM - The MCESpotlight package is already up to date.
2:35:38 PM - Retrieving MCEClientUX.
2:35:38 PM - Processing of MCEClientUX is complete.
2:35:38 PM - The MCEClientUX package is already up to date.
2:35:38 PM - Retrieving Broadband.
2:35:39 PM - Processing of Broadband is complete.
2:35:39 PM - The Broadband package is already up to date.
2:35:39 PM - Retrieving ClientUpdate.
2:35:39 PM - Processing of ClientUpdate is complete.
2:35:39 PM - The ClientUpdate package is already up to date.
2:35:41 PM - Update successful.
2:35:41 PM - Next update at 3/26/2010 9:07:08 PM.

 

[guthrie]

Ah - the answer is that I was managing the system using remote desktop, adn when you do that it rund WMC in a different mode, which does not support these services.

Pretty weird and too bad!

That means you need a physical connection to the machine to manage or use these items, cannot have a headless RDC machine. (or you could use VNC).