MCE 2002 Software problems

[jerrylite]

When I first entered this problem in the MCE forum about 3-4 weeks ago, I put my MCE version in the TOPIC list as "MCE 2002 Software Problems", because 'MY Computer' says that. I always thought it was incorrect. I now am finding out that my 7/2005 purchased PC is in fact MCE 2005. I would EDIT the Topic to update this, but the Full Edit function only allows the detail data to be altered, and doesn't allow the Topic title to be edited (or I don't know how to do so).

Sorry about the confusion.

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I bought an HP 7067 Media Center PC in July 2005. It runs XP-MCE 2005.

I have seen several software issues on this MCE 2005 PC that I have not seen on my other XP Home and XP Pro PC's.

1. 2005 McAfee ISS7: I had to cripple the 'ScriptStopper' before the Help and Support screen would even open. Not a big deal.

2. My Maxtor 200GB One Touch Ext HD has to be disconnected before System Restore will work.

3. After ONLY Installing Powerquest's BootMagic 7.0, Bootmagic started an 'autoload' operation at boot time. This stopped MCE from ever loading again. Even after uninstalling, checking the registry for remnants, would not go away. A complete System Recovery was required. Yikes!

4. Nero 6.0, installed. When start to use, you get a message "This version has known problems", Continue or stop. I chose to continue. The software would burn CD's, but had problems with DVD's. It went into a 'Not Responding' mode. I ended it and after MCE sent 'Program not responding' message, send?, I sent the log and Msoft sends back "there's a new version" of Nero 6, and also the update site to do so. I then download the updates to go to Nero 6.6. I reboot (Fine) ans start Nero 6.6. On the first attempt to start Nero 6.6, the PC Froze and would not free up. I did power down (Holding the power button). MCE would NOT load, ever. I finally did F10 recovery and got the OS up after going to "last known working state".

I did a System Restore back 1 day, and now MCE comes up VERRRY slowly (about 10-15 min). I even did a full system Restore from a Symantic Ghost backup from 14 days ago, and SAME problem. MCE comes up in about 10-15 min. It appears I may be doing another complete startover with the Recovery disks again, to fix this one.

I didn't mean to talk about so many things here with MCE, BUT

I have used ALL the software mentioned in items 1 > 4 above (with the exception of Nero 6.6) on both my other XP Home & Pro PC's, with NO PROBLEMS. I use Nero 6.0 on them all the time. I never get a message saying 'there are known problems with this version on this OS', on XP Home or Pro, and I have installed downloaded Nero 6.0 updates to these XP/Home & Pro PC's before. (I never installed the (6) Nero 6.0 updates mentioned above though).

Has anyone out there experienced anything like this at all with MCE 2005?

Thanking You

Jerrylite

Edited January 6, 2006 by jerrylite