Media Center has stopped working

What hardware do you have? Built or purchased? Under warranty?

Dana Cline - MCE MVP

"billrp" wrote in message

>
> Any info on this?
>
> "Gary" wrote:
>
>> When I go to media center, it comes up with the set up, then displays
>> this
>> error message:
>> "A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will
>> close
>> the program and notify yu if a solution is available."
>>
>> That's it no explaination. Any ideas?
>> Thanks
>> Gary
 >> Stay informed about: Media Center has stopped working 

I have the latest drivers for everything, and Vista media center was working
OK for a while, but now many other people are reporting this exact same media
center crash, which happens about 10 seconds after starting MC:

START REPORT
Product
Media Center

Problem
Stopped working

Date
2/10/2007 7:32 PM

Status
Report Sent

Description
Stopped working

Problem signature
Problem Event Name: CLR20r3
Problem Signature 01: ehshell.exe
Problem Signature 02: 6.0.6000.16386
Problem Signature 03: 4549b55e
Problem Signature 04: mcstoredb
Problem Signature 05: 6.0.6000.0
Problem Signature 06: 4549bcf9
Problem Signature 07: 114
Problem Signature 08: 222
Problem Signature 09: System.InvalidOperationException
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033


"Dana Cline - MVP" wrote:

> What hardware do you have? Built or purchased? Under warranty?
>
> Dana Cline - MCE MVP
>
> "billrp" wrote in message
>
> >
> > Any info on this?
> >
> > "Gary" wrote:
> >
> >> When I go to media center, it comes up with the set up, then displays
> >> this
> >> error message:
> >> "A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will
> >> close
> >> the program and notify yu if a solution is available."
> >>
> >> That's it no explaination. Any ideas?
> >> Thanks
> >> Gary
>
>
>
 >> Stay informed about: Media Center has stopped working 

I installed the 64bit version when I received it from MS and Media Center
works fine now.
Thanks,
Gary

"Dana Cline - MVP" wrote:

> What hardware do you have? Built or purchased? Under warranty?
>
> Dana Cline - MCE MVP
>
> "billrp" wrote in message
>
> >
> > Any info on this?
> >
> > "Gary" wrote:
> >
> >> When I go to media center, it comes up with the set up, then displays
> >> this
> >> error message:
> >> "A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will
> >> close
> >> the program and notify yu if a solution is available."
> >>
> >> That's it no explaination. Any ideas?
> >> Thanks
> >> Gary
>
>
>
 >> Stay informed about: Media Center has stopped working 

I wonder if you just had a bad 32-bit install?

Dana Cline - MCE MVP

"Gary" wrote in message

>I installed the 64bit version when I received it from MS and Media Center
> works fine now.
> Thanks,
> Gary
>
> "Dana Cline - MVP" wrote:
>
>> What hardware do you have? Built or purchased? Under warranty?
>>
>> Dana Cline - MCE MVP
>>
>> "billrp" wrote in message
>>
>> >
>> > Any info on this?
>> >
>> > "Gary" wrote:
>> >
>> >> When I go to media center, it comes up with the set up, then displays
>> >> this
>> >> error message:
>> >> "A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will
>> >> close
>> >> the program and notify yu if a solution is available."
>> >>
>> >> That's it no explaination. Any ideas?
>> >> Thanks
>> >> Gary
>>
>>
>>
 >> Stay informed about: Media Center has stopped working 

Here's how I fixed this:

Go to c:\ProgramData\Microsoft\eHome (and sub-folders) and delete all files
that were created after you installed Vista.
 >> Stay informed about: Media Center has stopped working 

billrp;7300625 Wrote:
> Here's how I fixed this:
>
> Go to c:\ProgramData\Microsoft\eHome (and sub-folders) and delete all
> files
> that were created after you installed Vista.

Thanks a million for that. I've tried renaming folders, restoring the
system, updating drivers, changed the system date, searched Technet,
Google et al endlessly.........

At least Media Center now starts again, but if it will stay working is
another issue. What a flaky piece of software!


--
tcaswell
 >> Stay informed about: Media Center has stopped working 

i get that same error message no one knows how to fix it, need help!
 >> Stay informed about: Media Center has stopped working 

i get the same problem, i have tried deleting the files in the ehome folder
but it would only let me delete a selected amount of files. the rest are
still present. any one have any other ideas??

thanks

"billrp" wrote:

> Here's how I fixed this:
>
> Go to c:\ProgramData\Microsoft\eHome (and sub-folders) and delete all files
> that were created after you installed Vista.
>
>
 >> Stay informed about: Media Center has stopped working 

"denied" wrote:

> I hate to drag up an old post, but this is a pretty ugly problem on my HP
> m7790y (Nvidia 7500LE, HVR-1600, Vista Ultimate).
>
> My configuration is bone stock the way it came from HP, this problem just
> started after I installed KB929399 + KB890830 + KB932246 all at once.
>
> Now I get about 10 seconds after I start Media Center and get that same error:
>
> Description:
> Stopped working
>
> Problem signature:
> Problem Event Name: CLR20r3
> Problem Signature 01: ehshell.exe
> Problem Signature 02: 6.0.6000.16386
> Problem Signature 03: 4549b55e
> Problem Signature 04: ehshell
> Problem Signature 05: 6.0.6000.0
> Problem Signature 06: 4549bcf3
> Problem Signature 07: 4435
> Problem Signature 08: 27
> Problem Signature 09: System.IO.FileNotFoundException
> OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.1
> Locale ID: 1033
>
>
> Event viewer is slient. System restore only took me back two days, well
> before I did the last series of updates but no help.
>
> Cleaning out /ProgramDate/Microsoft/eHome still results in the same crash.
>
> But, the first time I start media center after deleting everything in
> /eHome, I can quickly select TV Settings before the crash and if I setup my
> TV signal again, for that session only I can use media center so long as I
> don't dwell on the home screen. If I stay on the home screen for more than
> that same ~10 second time period it crashes with the CLR20r3 error.
>
> I read this might be related to user permissions, but a new user account
> behaves exactly the same.
>
> Tried to force a reinstall of .NET but it seems I can't do that anymore in
> Vista.
>
> Is there anything left short of a reinstall?

I have spent countless days trying to find a solution to this problem. After
having a year with my Vista Compaq Laptop, I found that it has Windows Media
Center but when I tried to open the program, it showed up: "Media Center" has
not stopping. I have an external TV tuner and it requires and made for
Windows Media Center. I have requested all kind of hotfixes and it still
didn't solve the problem. My last resort is to reinstall Vista (and erase
everything else) in order to get that darn Media Center to work (hopefully).
Apparently, Microsoft doesn't offer any kind of reinstallation for Media
Center for Vista which is very disappointing. So what happens when your Media
Center goes bad? It seem like there's no solution for this crisis yet...

If anyone out there have a (much) better or alternative solution, please
save my sanity before I go nuts about this whole Vista thing.
 >> Stay informed about: Media Center has stopped working 

click start type run in search box click run in the programs list.
in the open box type %systemdrive%\programdata\microsoft\ehome then click ok.
in pane right click mediacenterdatastore.db and then delete clck yes to
confirm .
start wmc

"Gary" wrote:

> When I go to media center, it comes up with the set up, then displays this
> error message:
> "A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close
> the program and notify yu if a solution is available."
>
> That's it no explaination. Any ideas?
> Thanks
> Gary
 >> Stay informed about: Media Center has stopped working