Media center- Vista Ultimate

Trying to open Media Center this morning I get the following error message:
"Windows cannot open this system because it has been prevented by a software
restriction policy. Refer to Systems Administrator....."
It has worked OK up to now. Any ideas please?

Is your Vista legitimate and activated?

Dale

"bunkoman" <bunkoman@iolfree.ie> wrote in message
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> Trying to open Media Center this morning I get the following error
> message:
> "Windows cannot open this system because it has been prevented by a
> software restriction policy. Refer to Systems Administrator....."
> It has worked OK up to now. Any ideas please?

Dale:
Yes to both.
"Dale" <nospam@nospam.ever> wrote in message
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> Is your Vista legitimate and activated?
>
> Dale
>
> "bunkoman" <bunkoman@iolfree.ie> wrote in message
> news:2D5B74E1-6065-4329-99D1-86802062B429@microsoft.com...
>> Trying to open Media Center this morning I get the following error
>> message:
>> "Windows cannot open this system because it has been prevented by a
>> software restriction policy. Refer to Systems Administrator....."
>> It has worked OK up to now. Any ideas please?
>

Is it RTM or a beta or release candidate version?

Dale

"bunkoman" <bunkoman@iolfree.ie> wrote in message
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> Dale:
> Yes to both.
> "Dale" <nospam@nospam.ever> wrote in message
> news:uRuFyJDKHHA.320@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> Is your Vista legitimate and activated?
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> "bunkoman" <bunkoman@iolfree.ie> wrote in message
>> news:2D5B74E1-6065-4329-99D1-86802062B429@microsoft.com...
>>> Trying to open Media Center this morning I get the following error
>>> message:
>>> "Windows cannot open this system because it has been prevented by a
>>> software restriction policy. Refer to Systems Administrator....."
>>> It has worked OK up to now. Any ideas please?
>>
>

RTM
"Dale" <nospam@nospam.ever> wrote in message
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> Is it RTM or a beta or release candidate version?
>
> Dale
>
> "bunkoman" <bunkoman@iolfree.ie> wrote in message
> news:550371F4-32AA-4A6B-B9B0-C9227BEC1FC0@microsoft.com...
>> Dale:
>> Yes to both.
>> "Dale" <nospam@nospam.ever> wrote in message
>> news:uRuFyJDKHHA.320@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>> Is your Vista legitimate and activated?
>>>
>>> Dale
>>>
>>> "bunkoman" <bunkoman@iolfree.ie> wrote in message
>>> news:2D5B74E1-6065-4329-99D1-86802062B429@microsoft.com...
>>>> Trying to open Media Center this morning I get the following error
>>>> message:
>>>> "Windows cannot open this system because it has been prevented by a
>>>> software restriction policy. Refer to Systems Administrator....."
>>>> It has worked OK up to now. Any ideas please?
>>>
>>
>

Hi,

got a similar issue here. Am using vista ultimate RTM thru msdn. when i use
the media center button, i hear the MCE music and all but the screen still
shows the regular background. task bar shows MCE but when i click it, nothing
and the pointer disapppears. pointer only returns if i click start few times.
on the "switch betw windows" button, i can see the MCE screen asking about
the setup options but if i click to it, same result..... nothing, and
pointers off to a vacation.
system is a 3800 X2, 1GB DDR2, dual 7600GS and 220 GB sata Raid 0
currently am runnning on nvidia's 96.85 beta drivers.
Any suggestions?

It's hard to say whats going on with your MCE
A good place to start would be to check if your graphics are working as they
should, check if aero glass is working ok and maybe check for a different
version of your video driver
Also if you have any third party dvd playing software it might help if you
uninstalled it


"Sid" <Sid@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:CFADE4CB-820D-48FC-8D1E-45E2A17ADDAF@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> got a similar issue here. Am using vista ultimate RTM thru msdn. when i
> use
> the media center button, i hear the MCE music and all but the screen still
> shows the regular background. task bar shows MCE but when i click it,
> nothing
> and the pointer disapppears. pointer only returns if i click start few
> times.
> on the "switch betw windows" button, i can see the MCE screen asking about
> the setup options but if i click to it, same result..... nothing, and
> pointers off to a vacation.
> system is a 3800 X2, 1GB DDR2, dual 7600GS and 220 GB sata Raid 0
> currently am runnning on nvidia's 96.85 beta drivers.
> Any suggestions?

Hello all,
I have the same issue in both version vista, Home premium and Ultimate.
I use the free codec 4.3.3 from Majorgeeks, when i try to play dvd file on
my hardisk or Dvd-rom, i hear the sound but no image. With MP11 it's ok.
Another issue, when you try to add some video folder on the local machine,
go back
to library and try to play the video, you can't find all folders that you
just finish updating, but you can see all of folder exist when you go to
remove the folder.

withyard

"xraycat" wrote:

> I have the same issue under the same cicumstances. Thats how I found this
> thread.
>
> "bunkoman" wrote:
>
> > RTM
> > "Dale" <nospam@nospam.ever> wrote in message
> > news:%23Ie$ZBEKHHA.1252@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> > > Is it RTM or a beta or release candidate version?
> > >
> > > Dale
> > >
> > > "bunkoman" <bunkoman@iolfree.ie> wrote in message
> > > news:550371F4-32AA-4A6B-B9B0-C9227BEC1FC0@microsoft.com...
> > >> Dale:
> > >> Yes to both.
> > >> "Dale" <nospam@nospam.ever> wrote in message
> > >> news:uRuFyJDKHHA.320@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> > >>> Is your Vista legitimate and activated?
> > >>>
> > >>> Dale
> > >>>
> > >>> "bunkoman" <bunkoman@iolfree.ie> wrote in message
> > >>> news:2D5B74E1-6065-4329-99D1-86802062B429@microsoft.com...
> > >>>> Trying to open Media Center this morning I get the following error
> > >>>> message:
> > >>>> "Windows cannot open this system because it has been prevented by a
> > >>>> software restriction policy. Refer to Systems Administrator....."
> > >>>> It has worked OK up to now. Any ideas please?
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >
> >

I'm getting the same message. Video drivers are up to date. I click on the
link... and nothing.

Very strange.
--
pb


"Sid" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> got a similar issue here. Am using vista ultimate RTM thru msdn. when i use
> the media center button, i hear the MCE music and all but the screen still
> shows the regular background. task bar shows MCE but when i click it, nothing
> and the pointer disapppears. pointer only returns if i click start few times.
> on the "switch betw windows" button, i can see the MCE screen asking about
> the setup options but if i click to it, same result..... nothing, and
> pointers off to a vacation.
> system is a 3800 X2, 1GB DDR2, dual 7600GS and 220 GB sata Raid 0
> currently am runnning on nvidia's 96.85 beta drivers.
> Any suggestions?

I had the exact same thing happen and I have the solution that worked for me.
Took me two months of resetting group policies and all that other junk....
Turns out I had installed a video player that had assumed the default
position for my media player... As soon as I put media player back to the
default, I no longer got the group policy error, and both media player and
media center are working fine.

Start-default programs-set program access and computer defaults-select
microsoft windows and make sure media player is the default with access to
media center and any other viseo programs you want to use.

Hope this works for you as it did for me..

"pb florance" wrote:

> I'm getting the same message. Video drivers are up to date. I click on the
> link... and nothing.
>
> Very strange.
> --
> pb
>
>
> "Sid" wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > got a similar issue here. Am using vista ultimate RTM thru msdn. when i use
> > the media center button, i hear the MCE music and all but the screen still
> > shows the regular background. task bar shows MCE but when i click it, nothing
> > and the pointer disapppears. pointer only returns if i click start few times.
> > on the "switch betw windows" button, i can see the MCE screen asking about
> > the setup options but if i click to it, same result..... nothing, and
> > pointers off to a vacation.
> > system is a 3800 X2, 1GB DDR2, dual 7600GS and 220 GB sata Raid 0
> > currently am runnning on nvidia's 96.85 beta drivers.
> > Any suggestions?