[Tom Schlichting]

every time i try to add extender it says invalid application,everything else works in media center, extender worked about 2 week ago.
looks like this happened when installed a new drive and cloned old hard drive, still works with old drive, could i just re-install media center ?

Tom
vista 6 bit

Edited by Tom Schlichting, 19 April 2009 - 03:46 AM.

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Give this a shot: Open Notepad and paste in the following code:

@ECHO OFF
sc stop Mcx2Svc
sc start Mcx2Svc

Now go to File > Save As. Save as type "All Files" and name it fix.bat. Have it saved to the Desktop.

Now right-click fix.bat on your desktop and click Run as Administrator. Now attempt doing the Extender again.

[Belinrahs]

Give this a shot: Open Notepad and paste in the following code:

@ECHO OFF
sc stop Mcx2Svc
sc start Mcx2Svc

Now go to File > Save As. Save as type "All Files" and name it fix.bat. Have it saved to the Desktop.

Now right-click fix.bat on your desktop and click Run as Administrator. Now attempt doing the Extender again.

[Tom Schlichting]

after rebooting 2 or 3 times and checking services, there were 2 services not running that needed to be running to work with media center extender, found solution by searching internet. thanks for the help. sorry i can't remember which services they were there are 3 of them.
services were i believe
windows media player network sharing service
windows media center extender service
windows media center reciever service

Edited by Tom Schlichting, 28 April 2009 - 04:03 PM.

[Belinrahs]

Good work -- the script I gave you restarted the Extender service. Glad I could help!

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