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Rob Burnett
After an in-place upgrade from Windows Media Center 2005 to Windows Vista
RC2 Ultimate (build 5744), the following key and value were created on my
box
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem
NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate
REG_DWORD 0x01
What's up with this registry being created during setup? Is it OK to change
it back to 0x00 ?
Neither the key nor the value were present prior to upgrade. The behavior
seems to be identical to that in Windows 2000 described here.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/reskit/regentry/46656.mspx
Only other item of note is that this MCE box only had one member of the
Users group and only Built In as an Administrators group member prior to
upgrade. After the MCE box was initially setup after purchase last year, the
other Administrator was demoted to Users group only and that is who we used
to auto logon as. After upgrade to Vista we have to turn UAC off and logon
as the Administrator to do anything.
BTW, most other areas Windows Media Center in Vista RC2 is greatly improved.
The in-place upgrade was the only method I could see to allow previously
installed codecs to still work. If I tried format and reinstall, when it
came to adding the codecs, install always failed, they were DiVX and AVC
H.264. I'm still struggling with UAC in other areas but maybe will get used
to it. We'll miss some of the new Vista MCE features if we can't eventually
get the rights and permissions set up.
RC2 Ultimate (build 5744), the following key and value were created on my
box
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem
NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate
REG_DWORD 0x01
What's up with this registry being created during setup? Is it OK to change
it back to 0x00 ?
Neither the key nor the value were present prior to upgrade. The behavior
seems to be identical to that in Windows 2000 described here.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/reskit/regentry/46656.mspx
Only other item of note is that this MCE box only had one member of the
Users group and only Built In as an Administrators group member prior to
upgrade. After the MCE box was initially setup after purchase last year, the
other Administrator was demoted to Users group only and that is who we used
to auto logon as. After upgrade to Vista we have to turn UAC off and logon
as the Administrator to do anything.
BTW, most other areas Windows Media Center in Vista RC2 is greatly improved.
The in-place upgrade was the only method I could see to allow previously
installed codecs to still work. If I tried format and reinstall, when it
came to adding the codecs, install always failed, they were DiVX and AVC
H.264. I'm still struggling with UAC in other areas but maybe will get used
to it. We'll miss some of the new Vista MCE features if we can't eventually
get the rights and permissions set up.