windows media center has stopped working

I'm encountering the same error... with a twist!
My Dell XPS 410... has been working great!
I actually really love Vista... aside from the difficult time I'm having
adapting to the new IIS interface.

My girlfriend wanted her own profile on my PC... I added one for her...
everything works great except Windows Media Center...

For the other user profile the media center will launch and work for only 15
or 20 seconds... then encounter the infamous "windows media center has
stopped working" error!

I have tried disabling various services in an attempt to resolve this with
no luck...

I thought that maybe the more we post about it... the quicker Microsoft can
help us resolve it!

Good luck to us all!

Event Info: ERROR: SqmApiWrapper.TimerRecord failed; Win32 GetLastError
returned 10000105
Process: DefaultDomain
Object Name: Media Center Guide

OS Name Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Ultimate
Version 6.0.6000 Build 6000
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name *************
System Manufacturer Dell Inc.
System Model Dell DXP061
System Type X86-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6300 @ 1.86GHz, 1861 Mhz, 2
Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Dell Inc. 2.2.0, 1/3/2007
SMBIOS Version 2.3
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume3
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.0.6000.20500"
************************************
Time Zone Central Daylight Time
Total Physical Memory 2,045.32 MB
Available Physical Memory 1.15 GB
Total Virtual Memory 4.21 GB
Available Virtual Memory 2.95 GB
Page File Space 2.29 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

"~Melko" wrote in message

> I'm encountering the same error... with a twist!
> My Dell XPS 410... has been working great!
> I actually really love Vista... aside from the difficult time I'm having
> adapting to the new IIS interface.
>
> My girlfriend wanted her own profile on my PC... I added one for her...
> everything works great except Windows Media Center...
>
> For the other user profile the media center will launch and work for only
> 15
> or 20 seconds... then encounter the infamous "windows media center has
> stopped working" error!
>
> I have tried disabling various services in an attempt to resolve this with
> no luck...
>
> I thought that maybe the more we post about it... the quicker Microsoft
> can
> help us resolve it!
>
> Good luck to us all!
>
> Event Info: ERROR: SqmApiWrapper.TimerRecord failed; Win32 GetLastError
> returned 10000105
> Process: DefaultDomain
> Object Name: Media Center Guide
>
> OS Name Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Ultimate
> Version 6.0.6000 Build 6000
> Other OS Description Not Available
> OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
> System Name *************
> System Manufacturer Dell Inc.
> System Model Dell DXP061
> System Type X86-based PC
> Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6300 @ 1.86GHz, 1861 Mhz, 2
> Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)
> BIOS Version/Date Dell Inc. 2.2.0, 1/3/2007
> SMBIOS Version 2.3
> Windows Directory C:\Windows
> System Directory C:\Windows\system32
> Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume3
> Locale United States
> Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.0.6000.20500"
> ************************************
> Time Zone Central Daylight Time
> Total Physical Memory 2,045.32 MB
> Available Physical Memory 1.15 GB
> Total Virtual Memory 4.21 GB
> Available Virtual Memory 2.95 GB
> Page File Space 2.29 GB
> Page File C:\pagefile.sys
>


I ran into the same issue, same event error on one of my computers. I
finally tired of trying to find a solution and did a repair install of
Vista. Media Center works great now.

--
Jim