Media Center has taken control of my daughters laptop

richc46 · 29 Dec 2010

If WHS idea did not work, go with the repair

whs · 29 Dec 2010

Hmm, just tried both and they worked perfectly - means your system is really mucked up. I have to think. Richard's neurons work faster. Maybe he has another idea - LOL.

richc46 · 29 Dec 2010

With my repair, you boot with a dvd. Did you try that?

whs · 29 Dec 2010

And once you booted as Rich says, you could run Command Prompt and use the same commands as I suggested for the Run box. That works too. Just make sure you type it in exactly as posted. Command prompt is very unforgiving with typos.

billberry12 · 29 Dec 2010

The run scannow take me to WMC. I am about to try the W7 DVD system repair. I will report back. Thanks so much for hanging with me here.

richc46 · 29 Dec 2010

Try the DVD with WHS method. If no dice, go with my repair. It should work.

billberry12 · 29 Dec 2010

The DVD repair did not work. I did notice there was an option for system restore, so I am about to try that next, from the DVD.

richc46 · 29 Dec 2010

Yes that is what you are suppose to see. Go for it.
The DVD does not fix, it allows you to get to repair options, Everything is going the way it should.

billberry12 · 29 Dec 2010

Got it to system restore from the DVD. Tried to restore it to yesterday. System Error, Did not work. It suggested I try to restore to an earlier date. I am restoing to day before yesterday now. I'll let you know.

richc46 · 29 Dec 2010

go back 3 days before the problem started.