WMC was removed! (Win 10 1703)
Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2017 8:38 am
Hello, yesterday in the evening I discovered a weird strange thing... I am running WMC on my Win 10 1703 mediacenter PC. Usually it is doing at least one recording per day. As it is working reliable I am not looking after it every day. It records to a shared folder so I also can watch recorded TV from other machines where WMC is installed.
Yesterday eveneing I wanted to watch with my notebook from bedroom something what should have been recorded during the past days by WMC. But the recording was not there. Last recording was on 22nd of october 2017, so a week ago. I found that strange. So I remotely logged into the mediacenter PC to see what's wrong. The first thing I discovered was that the mediacenter icon on the desktop was replaced by a default icon. I double clicked it and Windows told me that it could not find the application on that folder.
So I discovered in explorer that the complete c:\windows\ehome folder had been removed. There was no major Windows update these days, currently there is no further update. Strange!
I tryed to reinstall using the V12 and V87 packet which I previosly used on different occations to install the package again, but none of them worked. After some try&error I managed to reinstall and getting it working again with a modified install script (the one in the bin folder) from the V87 installer which bypasses all initial checks. It's working again, all settings are still there, but now the mediacenter is no more able to download regional tv informations from internet.
Any idea? Anybody has the same issue?
Yesterday eveneing I wanted to watch with my notebook from bedroom something what should have been recorded during the past days by WMC. But the recording was not there. Last recording was on 22nd of october 2017, so a week ago. I found that strange. So I remotely logged into the mediacenter PC to see what's wrong. The first thing I discovered was that the mediacenter icon on the desktop was replaced by a default icon. I double clicked it and Windows told me that it could not find the application on that folder.
So I discovered in explorer that the complete c:\windows\ehome folder had been removed. There was no major Windows update these days, currently there is no further update. Strange!
I tryed to reinstall using the V12 and V87 packet which I previosly used on different occations to install the package again, but none of them worked. After some try&error I managed to reinstall and getting it working again with a modified install script (the one in the bin folder) from the V87 installer which bypasses all initial checks. It's working again, all settings are still there, but now the mediacenter is no more able to download regional tv informations from internet.
Any idea? Anybody has the same issue?