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MCE Wont work after installing .NET 2.0 until restart


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Are you guys having a laugh?

Would you like me to list every hotfix and microsoft product installed?

I have net 1.0 + sp3

I have 1.1 + sp1

I have installed all of the MCE updates,

I then install Net2.0, when I go to run MCE it comes up with an error, but restarting it fixes this...

If I didnt have .NET 1.0 SP3 or .NET 1.1 SP1 I would have said... It doesnt work at all...

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There are processes set to run after a reboot by the hotfix 900325

Need to manually run these and you can use MCE without restarting...

I can post the commands to be entered into the run box if needed...

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Ok basically...

I install Media center and MCE updates on my Pro machine from CMDLINES.TXT

"rundll32 setupapi.dll,InstallHinfSection Freestyle 128 medctroc.inf"
"rundll32 setupapi.dll,InstallHinfSection PlusDancer 128 plusoc.inf"
"Install\windowsXP-KB891593-x86.exe /quiet /norestart"
"Install\windowsXP-KB895961-x86.exe /quiet /norestart"
"Install\windowsXP-KB899337-v2-x86.exe /quiet /norestart"
"Install\windowsXP-KB899510-x86.exe /quiet /norestart"
"Install\windowsXP-KB888795-x86.exe /quiet /norestart"
"Install\windowsXP-KB902841-x86.exe /quiet /norestart"

A batch script also runs from CMDLINES.TXT that adds updates to be run from RunOnceEx

REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx" /v TITLE /D "Windows Setup" /f
REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx\001" /VE /D "Windows XP Media Center Updates" /f
REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx\001" /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\$OEM$\Install\KB900325.exe /quiet /norestart"
REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx\001" /V 2 /D "%CDROM%\$OEM$\Install\WindowsXPMediaCenter2005-KB925766-ENU.exe /quiet /norestart"
REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx\001" /V 3 /D "%CDROM%\$OEM$\Install\WindowsXP-KB912024-v2-x86-ENU.exe /quiet /norestart"

If you install .NET Framework 2.0 on this first boot Media Center won't work until you restart...

I have found a way around this eliminating the restart.

I do not have the Error message, and since I've solved my problem im not going to reinstall to deliberatly get the message.

I can however if someone has this problem aswel supply the commands to make MCE work without the restart.

Edited by antonio_king
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