Reinstall Media center only not OS

[Guest]

Is there a way to reinstall The media center portion of Vista Ultimate with
out having to reinstall the entire OS? I need this, because when attempting
to connect to a extender, or when attempting to run Media Center it errors
out each time.

 

[LaRoux]

What type of Extender are you using? If it's from the first generation, they
aren't Vista compatible. As far as I know, at this point, the only Vista
compatible Media Extender available is the Xbox 360.

If you want to try "reinstalling", boot from your DVD and run a repair.

 

[Guest]

Well it is a Xbox 360, however, it is not the extender I am having issues
with. Really it is the app all together. even setting up media center for the
first time it errors out. So I cannot finish setup at all. So I wanted to
know if there was a way to unionstall and reinstall just the media center and
not the os. Or maybe if there is a way using the SDK to just manually replace
the files?

 

[LaRoux]

I doubt there's a way to do what you want to do. In all likelihood, your
problems are related to your Video, Sound, or Tuner drivers. There may be
some events recorded in the logs to give you a clue as to where the problem
lies. Short of that, I would suggest making sure you have the latest drivers
from the manufacturers.

 

[Guest]

No I think the issue lies with in the OS that I burned. I burned the OS from
a ISO off of MSDN. Probably burned the DVD too fast and got some errors. I've
installed Vista about 40 times, and have never see the install skip all it
did and start windows. But windows it self works ok. The video driver is
kinda crappy because NVidia really does not have any video drivers that work
well with vista at this point. But by any means, I really think it was during
the install of Vista that this got messed up. Thats why I was wondering if
there was a media center app that I could uninstall and reinstall. Thanks for
you help though.