Windows Vista Premium x64 WMC Component Registration Failure

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Posted by Emil on November 20, 2007, 11:46 pmPlease Register and login to reply and use other advanced options

WMC won't shw any of the recorded shows.
The error message displayed:
Some of the files needed to play radio or video are missing or corrupt.
Windows Media Center component registration may have failed.
When trying to open the giude WMC freezes up and onlw the Task Manager
closes it and reports the failure to MS. Tried to roll back as far as Vista
allows but no success.
Any ideeas?

Posted by Barb Bowman on November 21, 2007, 6:11 am

did you install any video editing software like Roxio, Nero, etc? or
any codecs?

On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:46:00 -0800, Emil

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Posted by Emil on November 21, 2007, 11:08 am

None that I know off... It coincidentally happened after last Patch Tuesday...
It seems to be related to my ATI TV Tuner driver. After posting this
question I used ATI's application to re-install it's drivers. It didn't solve
the main problem but after re-booting, Windows Media Player could play the
recorded shows which it couldn't before (sound only... no picture). However,
the playback quality in WMP is not as smotth as in WMC. WMC it's still
unaffected... shows same Component Registration Error and when trying to
access the guide freezes-up and stops responding...
Your help would be really appreciated...

Thanks!
Emil

"Barb Bowman" wrote:

Posted by Barb Bowman on November 21, 2007, 1:33 pm

see
http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2007/03/16/how-to-repair-media-center-files-and-registry-entries-on-windows-vista.aspx

particularly the comments on recordings.xml

On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:08:04 -0800, Emil