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27 May 2010 | #1 |
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No Media Center
Hello guys, I have recently bought a HP with windows seven and I been searching for the Media Center but aparently it isn't instaled
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27 May 2010 | #2 |
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Hi grisinerotico,
Windows Media Center isn't available in Windows 7 Starter :/ but you can pay to upgrade, if you wish, to a more fully-featured edition using Windows Anytime Upgrade. Just type "upgrade" in your Start menu search field, and click on Windows Anytime Upgrade. Here's a list of what's missing in Windows 7 Starter: Quote:
Windows 7 Starter does not include:
![]() Cheers, Walker Windows Outreach Team |
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27 May 2010 | #3 |
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I am afraid you have not provided near enough information about your computer to give you an answer. All I can do is ask more questions: What model is the computer? Which version of Windows 7 is installed? Did you try typing "media center" in the start button search box? Did you look in the "Turn Windows features on or off" in the Control Panel? If you could provide more info perhaps someone could help with an answer? Cheers! Robert |
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27 May 2010 | #4 |
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Hi Grisinerotico, welcome to the Seven Forums.
If you have an N edition of Windows 7, you can download missing media components from here: Download details: Media Feature Pack. The download includes Windows Media Player, Media Center and related software. It can be downloaded to all existing Windows 7 N editions (Starter N, Home Basic N, Home Premium N, Professional N and Ultimate N). What is an N edition? Microsoft's explanation is short, found on the above mentioned download page: ![]() Windows 7 N and Windows 7 KN editions include the same functionality as Windows 7, except that these versions of Windows do not include Windows Media Player, and related technologies.
![]() Back in 2004, the European Commission fined Microsoft a record €497m under an antitrust ruling. The Commission concluded that with a near-monopoly in the operating system market, Microsoft's bundling of Windows Media Player within Windows was anti-competitive. Microsoft was forced to unbundle the software and offer European consumers and manufacturers a version of Windows without it.
Microsoft was allowed to keep selling Windows with a media player, under the condition that it at least offer a version without. This took place in the latter part of Windows XP's life and prompted the release of Windows XP N -- a version identical to Windows XP, but without Windows Media Player. Kari |
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27 May 2010 | #5 |
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Wow, I was not aware of this 'N' edition! Thank you for the very informative post, Kari.
@grisinerotico I apologize - there could be other reasons (besides Starter) behind your lack of WMC. Providing the information iseeuu has requested will help us determine if this is the case! Cheers, Walker Windows Outreach Team |
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27 May 2010 | #6 |
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Hello, thanks for the quick answer. When I bought my computer I asked for Windows Seven Ultimate and that's what I've got. In this precisely moment y have no time to solve this cause of work but for shure on Sunday I'll have time to check everything on detail.
Thanks again for everything |
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27 May 2010 | #7 |
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You are welcome, Walker. This normally affects only us Europeans (N editions) and Koreans (KN editions), most users have never heard of them due to Microsoft's understandable lack of interest to announce existence of the N edition loud and clear.
Stupid politics, from both EU's and South Korea's side, but Microsoft did what was expected, gave EU and Korea an option to get Windows without WMP & WMC. This, in its own way, opened the door to Opera to demand the policy expanded to browsers. And that, as we Europeans know, gave us The Incredible Browser Choice Ballot! Kari |
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27 May 2010 | #8 |
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Hello, thanks for the quick answer. When I bought my computer I asked for Windows Seven Ultimate and that's what I've got. In this precisely moment y have no time to solve this cause of work but for shure on Sunday I'll have time to check everything on detail.
Thanks again for everything Cheers! Robert |
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28 May 2010 | #9 |
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Hello, thanks for the quick answer. When I bought my computer I asked for Windows Seven Ultimate and that's what I've got. In this precisely moment y have no time to solve this cause of work but for shure on Sunday I'll have time to check everything on detail.
Thanks again for everything Walker Windows Outreach Team |
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02 Jun 2010 | #10 |
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Hi guys, sorry for the delay but I have a rough month... The news is that I managed to solved the problem. Apparently the WMC was instaled in an unusual place.
I got to open it by changing it to be the default player for a certain tipe movie, then I pressed "ctrl + alt + esc" and I looked for the process and at last for the folder location of it process and there it was... I just have to do a link of the file to the windows menu ![]() Thanks for the help and now you know the solution in case somebody has the same problem. Thanks for all and hope to see you soon (in other section...) |
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