Hi All
For a few weeks now, I've had a semi-regular popup telling me "Windows Media Center Reciever Service has stopped working" and will be closed. I'm guaranteed one when I first boot up, but I get periodic ones throughout the day at random, and Media Center is rendered useless; it's a 50/50 whether it will let me get to the menus, or whether it will display a black, always-on-top fullscreen window that even blocks task manager.
I've been hunting around for possible sources of this problem, and obviously - remedies. This page has lots of useful info - http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2007/03/16/how-to-repair-media-center-files-and-registry-entr..., and one suggestion was to use the
sfc /scannow
command as an administrator. I do this. It tells me, 99% in, that "Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files" , but "was unable to fix some of them". It them refers me to a 250,000 line text file log to see what the problem is... not that there's really anything I can do about it, other than be made aware of file names.
There are only 2 immediate options available to me: 1, a full system reinstall, as sony don't make enough on a £2,000 laptop to afford to ship installation and recovery CDs, or 2, MS system restore. Seems like system restore points are discarded after a few weeks, and unfortunately I've not had an opportunity to resolve this issue in that timeframe.
This leads me to needing to do a full system recovery. Does anyone have any alterative suggestions there? A system reinstall is going to cost me about a weeks' work, as I've pretty much settled in on this machine. I'm astounded that this is caused by one pokey, lousy file, which neither sony nor ms sees fit to provide or distribute. I'm also appalled that 'resource protection' apparently consumes the former to provide none of the latter. How did the file become corrupted? (glances sideways at a stack of buggy drivers shipped with machine by sony)
Has anyone used the sony system recovery disks? is it possible to use these to repair or perform partial installs, or is it all-or-nothing, complete disk erasure?
