Vista home premium but no media center?

Killa_ken · 12 Feb 2007 at 12:44

I installed Vista Home premium last night, and i woke up and i cant see the media center application anywhere?

The whole reason i brought this was to use the media center but i cant find it anywhere, have i missed something?

Fr0dders · 12 Feb 2007 at 12:53

type media centre in the search bar

should find it

PinkPig · 12 Feb 2007 at 15:39

It should just be installed, something's gone very wrong if it's not there. It's just plain on the start menu, under Windows Media Centre.

If you really can't find it, make sure you installed the right version - if you install without a CD key and choose the wrong version it might not be there.

Killa_ken · 12 Feb 2007 at 15:58

PinkPig said:
It should just be installed, something's gone very wrong if it's not there. It's just plain on the start menu, under Windows Media Centre.

If you really can't find it, make sure you installed the right version - if you install without a CD key and choose the wrong version it might not be there.

I definately have Home Premium and i did choose to install without the serial key. May buy Vista Ultimate see if that works.

james.miller · 12 Feb 2007 at 16:00

Killa_ken said:
I definately have Home Premium and i did choose to install without the serial key. May buy Vista Ultimate see if that works.

to see if media center works? bit of a waste isnt it? :confused:

PinkPig · 12 Feb 2007 at 16:01

Killa_ken said:
I definately have Home Premium and i did choose to install without the serial key. May buy Vista Ultimate see if that works.

I don't quite understand what you meant there - are you sure you installed Home Premium? (Look at the login screen and so on). If you did, there's no point in buying Ultimate, both have Media Centre.

the-void · 12 Feb 2007 at 16:02

Should be there on Home Premium. When I got my disc (ultimate) I installed each version (home basic, home premium, business) because I was curious. It was certainly on Home Premium when I installed.

I recommend re-installing before buying another copy of Vista.

Rebelius · 12 Feb 2007 at 16:04

hit winkey+r then type winver and hit return. If it doesn't look like this:

you've installed the wrong one

Killa_ken · 12 Feb 2007 at 17:13

looks just like that ^^

Vista ultimate is only $20 to me, we have a version much like MSDNAA

ic1male · 12 Feb 2007 at 17:20

If you didn't enter a serial key during the initial setup process, Vista doesn't know what to install and has probably only installed the Basic version or something of a mish-mash between all three. (Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate).

There's no way it would know what version you have without the key.

Jimi · 12 Feb 2007 at 17:41

ic1male said:
If you didn't enter a serial key during the initial setup process, Vista doesn't know what to install and has probably only installed the Basic version or something of a mish-mash between all three. (Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate).

There's no way it would know what version you have without the key.

When you install Vista, you choose which version to install whether you enter the validation code or not and it install which ever version you selected.

wesley · 12 Feb 2007 at 17:47

Jimi's right

any chance that you installed vlited Vista Home?

ic1male · 12 Feb 2007 at 17:55

Jimi said:
When you install Vista, you choose which version to install whether you enter the validation code or not and it install which ever version you selected.

I stand corrected. Merci, monsieur.

Killa_ken · 12 Feb 2007 at 18:49

Just did a reinstall and all seems well now! thanks dudes!