How to get help for Update Rollup 2 for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 setup issues

re: How to get help for Update Rollup 2 for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 setup issues

Aaron Stebner — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:20:26 GMT

Hi Max Ika - I don't know of a separate version of Update Rollup 2 for the UK. You should be able to try to install from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E5DAF37E-E243-4410-BC51-81CF2B56FE6E&displaylang=en instead of using Windows Update. If you run into any install problems, the logs listed at the top of this blog post will hopefully help narrow down the cause of the failure in more detail.

re: How to get help for Update Rollup 2 for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 setup issues

Max Ika — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:51:30 GMT

I Tryed to install the update using windows update service but it says installation failed i am in the uk currently can i intall the us version?

re: How to get help for Update Rollup 2 for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 setup issues

suprasteve1979 — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:05:21 GMT

Thanks your a star, your wright i couldn't change the installed value in regedit to reg_dword as it was reg_sz, but I ran through the dos commands and all is well.

Nice to see that DOS is still useful and about

Steve

re: How to get help for Update Rollup 2 for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 setup issues

Aaron Stebner — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:52:03 GMT

Hi Suprasteve1979 - Update Rollup 2 setup requires that both of those registry values exist and that they be set to the proper data type. The Installed value must be a REG_DWORD and the Ident value must be a REG_SZ. Can you also please check the data type of each of these values?

The Installed value is protected by the OS and you won't be able to change it if it is incorrect. If that ends up being the case on your system, I'd suggest trying the manual install steps at http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2006/05/22/604380.aspx to see if they help work around this.

re: How to get help for Update Rollup 2 for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 setup issues

suprasteve1979 — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:17:07 GMT

Hi this looks like an old problem but I am just experiencing it,

I am trying to install roll up 2, but it comes up with an error "This upgrade can only be run on Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005."

I have checked the registry which is Ident 3.0 and installed 1, any more ideas would be appreciated

Steve

re: How to get help for Update Rollup 2 for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 setup issues

Aaron Stebner — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 18:34:35 GMT

Hi RedRedKrovy - I'm sorry, it looks like my file server is temporarily down, so that is why you can't download the script. However, that script is only for convenience - you can still manually gather and zip the log files. Keep in mind that not all of them will exist on your system, so just skip the ones that don't exist on your system when gathering them.

re: How to get help for Update Rollup 2 for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 setup issues

RedRedKrovy — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:47:03 GMT

Both strings are present and accounted for.

Also I tried downloading your script in order to gather up the logs and email them to you but I keep getting "A connection to the server could not be established" so later on today I'll try to get them gathered up and send them to you.

re: How to get help for Update Rollup 2 for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 setup issues

Aaron Stebner — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 07:01:08 GMT

Hi RedRedKrovy - There are 2 registry values that Update Rollup 2 setup searches for to determine whether or not the system contains Media Center 2005:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Media Center]

Ident = 3.0 or 3.1

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\WPA\MediaCenter]

Installed = 1

Can you please double check that you have both of those settings on your computer?

re: How to get help for Update Rollup 2 for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 setup issues

RedRedKrovy — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 06:33:27 GMT

Cannot get Rollup 2 to install keep getting error stating it can only be installed to MCE 2005

MCSetup_UI.log says this

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Sunday, 03 June 2007 23:25:22

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11:25:22 PM : Checking admin account.

11:25:22 PM : Checking .Net Framework 1.1 and SP1 installed .

11:25:22 PM : Checking only instance of installer.

11:25:22 PM : Checking (correct version of MCE OS)

This upgrade can only be run on Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005.

11:25:23 PM : start condition(s) failed.

11:25:23 PM : Exiting

I've already tried the registry edit of changing Ident to 3.0 but it still doesn't work. Where am I going wrong?

re: How to get help for Update Rollup 2 for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 setup issues

Aaron Stebner — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 20:18:05 GMT

Hi WoodyJHB - I'm glad that you were able to install Update Rollup 2 with this workaround, but I'm sorry for the hassles that this caused you.

I haven't heard of issue 1 before, but I'm not super familiar with EPGRunner so it is possible that it is a side effect of using that. Does it work to just delete the scheduled recordings that you don't want?

For issue 2, I know that there are tweaks for My DVDs, but I haven't tried them myself. I would suggest searching on some of the Media Center forums for advice on how best to handle that scenario.