Vista Home Premium but no Media Center

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I built the computer myself. I've been runing it for several months on Vista
without a problem. Using CyberLink to play HD-DVDs and DVDs, etc. But I
wanted to add a QAM tuner. That's when no Media Center became a problem.
 
Are you saying Microsoft can sell a crippled OS to an OEM and there is
nothing they can do?
 
If I type in %SystemRoot% what come up at the top is
windows
windows\ehome\eshell.exe
windows\ehome\eshell.exe.config

If I click on windows\ehome\eshell.exe what comes up is
Windows cannot open this prigram because it has been prevented by a software
restriction policy. For more information contact your system administrator.

If I type in %SystemRoot%\ehome\ehshell.exe there is nothing at the top.
 
Do you, or anyone else, know, if I get Vista Home Premium upgrade, will it
upgrade me from Home Premium without Media Center to Home Premium with media
center? Or any idea who I should ask?
 
No, I can't find Media Center anywhere.
Thanks for the help.
Do you know, if I get Home Premium Upgrade, will it let me go from Home
Premium without Media Center to Home Premium with Media Center?
 
BenZappa said:
No, I can't find Media Center anywhere.
Thanks for the help.
Do you know, if I get Home Premium Upgrade, will it let me go from Home
Premium without Media Center to Home Premium with Media Center?
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I don't know. I think your best bet is to visit the OEMs website.
 
To any who are interested, I reinstalled my copy of Vista Home Premium to a
clean hard drive, same computer just a different drive. I had to call
Microsoft to get it reactivated. But now Media Center DOES show up. Now I
just need to reinstall all of my apps.
 
Congratulations Ben. Glad to hear it!

BenZappa said:
To any who are interested, I reinstalled my copy of Vista Home Premium to
a
clean hard drive, same computer just a different drive. I had to call
Microsoft to get it reactivated. But now Media Center DOES show up. Now
I
just need to reinstall all of my apps.
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I have never been a Mac fan. One time I went into a Mac store. I touched the pad. The cursor would not go past the median point of the screen. Out comes a *******, He/She/It says, can I help you, yes, I tried the touch pad and the cursor will not go past the mid screen point. The person says, well, that's what happens when people come in and screw around with something they know nothing about. ! ! ! It was a long time ago, like maybe when the first laptop came out, I never looked at an Apple or Mac again. Had the movie been out, I would have said, "Are you talkin' to me, you must be talkin' to me, I'm the only one here. BOOM!

For me to get software I bought at an exorbitant price, put back on another drive to me is ludicrous.

I can't think in those terms because if you think about it, everyone who buys any Windows products should be paid as a beta tester, as I do, when the Microsoft product calls back home to mama and debugs their hopeless software for them. Mr. Gates would have to hire half the world to do what we do on a daily basis for free.

I have tried a 3rd party backup call Ghost something from Adobe?, I believe, didn't work, I bought a third party program called Back It, worthless, did not work. I finally kept researching and found a product, completely debugged called, Acronis True Image Home. It clones my disc bit for bit. It checks itself for errors, put a copy on the clone and if anything happens, you are back in business in less than 15 minutes. it takes a while to clone depending on how many gigabytes of information you have, but if you follow it's very easy procedure about once a week, you won't ever have to go through what you did, that is absolutely intolerable. The software is mine, I don't believe in sharing or selling software, but Microsoft owes me big time for debugging their software constantly.
 
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