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Media Centre only seems to work for one day, after doing system restor
Yesterday I posted in the Windows Media Center section but, as I have had no response whatsoever, I thought I'd try asking here; more people seem to browse the General Discussion.
Last week I was having big problems getting my Media Center to play DVD discs; the screen resolution seemed to have changed, even though I had not altered the settings. A message came up saying that it was impossible to play the DVD, and that either the device was in use by another application, or that it might have been necessary to reduce the video resolution etc. I DID get it to work again after doing a system restore, and in fact I watched a couple of DVDs on my PC the day before yesterday. But yesterday morning the problem had returned, even though -- once again -- I had not touched anything. The Media Centre seems as if it is going to play the DVD, then suddenly the screen size changes and the error message comes up again.
The other day I noticed, quite by chance, that Windows was attempting to update the Media Centre (I could see the Media Centre icon in the Notification Area), but I then saw a message that the update was unsuccessful. I went to Windows Update to see if I could try and do a manual update, but apparently there were no updates to be downloaded.
Does anyone know what the problem might be here, and how I can get updates for the Media Centre? (btw I have tried updating the video driver via Device Manager, but this causes my laptop to crash, and when I reboot it, none of my media players will work.