After installing EPG123 and 3 or 4 attempts (half a day) to get Schedules direct working on WMC, everything looked like it was working (no error messages), but I got no channels in EPG123, and no channel guide whatsoever in Media Center. I started to wonder if I should change my default 'user' login on my Win7 media server to my admin login. Switched user to admin, re-ran the process, and what do you know...the channels populated.
No doubt I'm the densest person here, but *just in case* someone else runs their computer with a user level login and can't get the guide to work....
It would have saved me about four hours if the 1st step in the instructions was, 'Make sure you're logged in as admin.'
Charlie
Channel guide population fails
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This is not entirely true. Your user just needs to be able to run with administrator privileges in order to delete the existing WMC database and to create the scheduled task. When the setup routine needs those privileges, and you are using a 'User' account, Win7 should prompt you for a local administrators login credentials to proceed. Everything should work after that.
- Gary
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