Windows MCE 2002/2005

miracleboy · 21 Oct 2006 at 17:22

I bought Windows MCE 2005 and when I right click on My Computer it says...

Microsoft Windows XP
Media Center Edition
Version 2002
Service Pack 2

And when I try and run the Update Rollup 2 that came with it, it says "This upgrade can only be run on Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005".

:confused:

miracleboy · 21 Oct 2006 at 17:25

Never mind I got it - 2005 does show as 2002, just the MEdia Center bits have been changed. Not sure why it's giving me the other message though.

csmager · 21 Oct 2006 at 18:22

You usually get that message when trying to bodge MCE into an existing install rather than doing a fresh installation.

You can just rename the Update Rollup 2 .exe as .rar, extract all the files, run them in the order suggested in one of the ini files (i think), and all will be well.

If it really is a proper MCE installation, it really shouldn't be saying that.

miracleboy · 24 Oct 2006 at 10:57

I found the problem - and it's my fault!

Basically I used to have XP Home and had XP SP2 on my data disk which I always used to install first thing after doing a fresh XP install.

So when I bought MCE and did a fresh install of that, out of habit I ran the XP SP2 installer - it didn't complain and let me install it. I ran my OS like this for ages - it's only because I have been trying to get it talking to the 360 without any luck that I looked into it.

Looks like that by running SP2 it overwrote some MCE files with XP files - so after that the OS thought it was XP and not MCE.

Fixed by doing a fresh install of MCE, followed by installing Rollup Update 2 (and deleting the old SP2 exe from my data drive!). Now the 360 works fine, streaming video from the PC!