After format and system reload Media Center is no more.

I don't know why Media Center is not installed. I installed everything twice just to make sure it was not just a fluke, but MC is gone. Any way to get it back?
Thanks,
Ross

What model is your laptop, and what version of Windows do you have?
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Hi,
Please understand that Microsoft's partners have shared clear concerns over the costs associated with codec licensing for traditional media playback, especially as Windows 8 enables an unprecedented variety of form factors. Windows has addressed these concerns
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Black thumbnails and pictures in Media Center in PE8

Hi,
I've had this issue for years (in PE6, 7 and now 8) and on various Windows versions (XP MCE, Vista and now on W7 x86 and x64) but I've finally decided to try and do something about it as I'd really like to be able to use the MC plugin.
As the title says, some of my pictures appear black (both the thumbnail and the picture itself) in Media Center. All my pictures are fine in the desktop version of PE8. It seems to happen exclusively with pictures that are taken vertically (portrait orientation), those in landscape are fine. But some portrait pictures (though very few) appear fine too. I've also found out that if I open a "black" picture in the Editor and save it (without changing anything), then it will appear fine in MC. And I've noticed that it's only happening with my camera (Canon Ixus 860 IS) although I had the same problem with my 2 previous cameras (both Canon PowerShots). The memory cards were different too.
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Here's a picture to illustrate what I'm talking about:

My suspicion is that your problem correlates to a photo orientation indicator set by your camera in the photo file.
some ideas
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-- Now in the Organizer, rotate the thumbnail of that same photo 90 degrees to the right or to the left and then rotate it back in the other direction
-- Do whatever you may need to do to refresh your display through Media Center and check if this photo displays OK.
After you post back with your results, we can discuss in more detail the what and the why. If my theory is correct the solution should be easy.
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G56 will not start install after format and copy from recovery usb

so i just replaced the hdd in this laptop running win7. i am trying to fix the imminent hdd failure message for one of my mother's friends. anywho... i created the usb flash (13.5gb) and then replaced the hdd. went into the bios and enabled usb floppy and moved it up in boot order.
the pc boots into recovery fine. it formats and copies the files over also. what it will not do is reboot into the install of windows. all it wants to do is reload the recovery. i have tried many different ways of getting this done and nothing seems to be working.
at first the floppy was first. now i have it second, after the hdd. i have pulled the usb after the format and copy. i have left it in.
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patrick

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Can I use the HP Recovery partition after formatting and repartitioning the rest of the hard drive?

I recently had my HP Pavilion dv4 2145dx laptop (Windows 7 64-bit) go kerput. The Geek Squad said that the motherboard died. I've purchased another laptop, and I'm using that one for now, and I am using the hard drive from the old dv4 as an external.
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So I'd like to do one of these two things:
1) Create my dv4 Recovery Disks. Can I do this if the dv4's drive is mounted in an external enclosure?
2) Format and partition the dv4 drive (leaving the Recovery partition intact), and later recover the system from the Recovery partition. Would the Recovery partition still work under those conditions?
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Hi:
Anything you do to the C:\drive will render the recovery partition inoperable.
You won't be able to create a set of recovery disks unless the drive is operable in the notebook.
Can you still read all 25 characters of your W7 product key on the bottom of your busted notebook?
If so, you can do this...
If you can read the 25 character Microsoft windows 7 product key, you can download plain Windows 7 ISO files to burn to a DVD for the version of windows that came installed on your PC, and that is listed on the Microsoft COA sticker on your PC's case.
Burn the ISO using the Burn ISO option on your DVD burning program and burn at the slowest possible speed your program will allow. This will create a bootable DVD.
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http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/html/pbPage.Help_Win7_usbdvd_dwnTool
Use the 25 character product key on the PC to activate the installation.
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http://www.mydigitallife.info/official-windows-7-sp1-iso-from-digital-river/
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Can I stream AirTunes to my Airport Express and my windows media center?

Hello all, I am just about to install a windows media center in my lounge room and I would like to know how I can stream from my office mac to not only my airport express in the dining room, but my new windows box in the lounge.
I have iTunes installed and a wireless card on the PC and speakers attached, so just wondering how I can stream from the iMac in the office to both devices? Any advice and tips? I love streaming from my iMac to the dining room, just want to be able to get the media center in on the action now
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TOSHIBA Satellite L775D
iTunes 11.0.1.12
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FairPlay 2.2.32
Apple Application Support 2.3.2
iPod Updater Library 10.0d2
CD Driver Not Available
CD Driver DLL 2.1.3.1
Apple Mobile Device 6.0.1.3
Apple Mobile Device Driver not found.
Bonjour 3.0.0.10 (333.10)
Gracenote SDK 1.9.6.502
Gracenote MusicID 1.9.6.115
Gracenote Submit 1.9.6.143
Gracenote DSP 1.9.6.45
iTunes Serial Number
Current user is not an administrator.
The current local date and time is 2013-01-08 11:16:27.
iTunes is not running in safe mode.
WebKit accelerated compositing is enabled.
HDCP is supported.
Core Media is supported.
Video Display Information
ATI Technologies Inc., AMD Radeon(TM) HD 6520G
**** External Plug-ins Information ****
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**** Device Connectivity Tests ****
iPodService 11.0.1.12 (x64) is currently running.
iTunesHelper 11.0.1.12 is currently running.
Apple Mobile Device service 3.3.0.0 is currently running.
Universal Serial Bus Controllers:
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Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller. Device is working properly.
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<Edited By Host>

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Windows XP Home or Professional with Service Pack 2 or later
Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, Enterprise, or Ultimate edition
iTunes 7.3 or later, available at www.itunes.com
An iTunes Store account
An Internet connection
You must be at least 18 years old to open a new AT&T wireless account. You will need a
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Yeahyeah check all that stuff;
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Wanted to have iTunes library included in Time Capsule backup. So had to reformat external hardrives where all my songs are from Windows do OS. Copied everything on other HD, reformatted HD with OS, copied back all songs. HD still has same name "MUSIC", but iTunes cannot find files.
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The moment I "drag out" the Tunes Library File, then there is nothing left there, and when I open iTunes it is empty.
That's as expected. That file is the database iTunes uses that keeps track of everything, so when you then launch iTunes, it's starting from scratch.
I can import the Playlists from the XML and they do appear, but still no songs, all is empty. If I try to reimport from the new location, then they "do not fit into the playlists", meaning ratings etc. are lost.
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Why does the simple location function in iTunes Preferences not work?
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MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro9,1
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4 GB RAM
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Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
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Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
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Mac App Store and identified developers
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User Login Items: ?
uHD-Agent
Flux
Internet Plug-ins: ?
AdobeExManDetect: Version: AdobeExManDetect 1.1.0.0 - SDK 10.7 Support
FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 14.0.0.176 - SDK 10.6 Support
Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9
Flash Player: Version: 14.0.0.176 - SDK 10.6 Support
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
o1dbrowserplugin: Version: 5.4.2.18903 Support
SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.4.3 - SDK 10.6 Support
googletalkbrowserplugin: Version: 5.4.2.18903 Support
JavaAppletPlugin: Version: Java 8 Update 20 Check version
Safari Extensions: ?
AdBlock
Audio Plug-ins: ?
BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.9
AirPlay: Version: 2.0 - SDK 10.9
AppleAVBAudio: Version: 203.2 - SDK 10.9
iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3 - SDK 10.9
iTunes Plug-ins: ?
Quartz Composer Visualizer: Version: 1.4 - SDK 10.9
User Internet Plug-ins ?
BlueStacks Install Detector: Version: 0.3.6 - SDK 10.7 Support
3rd Party Preference Panes: ?
Flash Player Support
Java Support
Time Machine: ?
Time Machine not configured!
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      8% Finder
      4% WindowServer
      1% sharingd
      1% hidd
      0% coreservicesd
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119 MB Safari
99 MB com.apple.WebKit.WebContent
90 MB WindowServer
45 MB ocspd
33 MB com.apple.WebKit.Networking
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533 MB Free RAM
1.49 GB Active RAM
1.03 GB Inactive RAM
665 MB Wired RAM
1.36 GB Page-ins
75 MB Page-outs

After formatting and creating two partitions on my external HD, why is Time Machine taking 25x longer to perform a backup?

Hi.
I bought a macbookpro 13"retina, new two weeks ago and a G-tech 1TB external drive from the apple store. It's my first mac.
I performed a backup, using Time Machine, which copied 18 GB onto he 1TB external HD in around 20 minutes.
After a little more reading, I realised I should use Disk utility to partition the 1TB external G-tech drive into a 250gb partition, and a 750gb partition.
[My MBP has a 250gb flash HD. I'll use the other 750gb for storage of my other files, like photos, music etc.]
So, using disk utility I formatted the 1TB exernal drive, then created two partitions.
However, I've started backing up my data using time machine again, onto the 250gb partition, on the external drive, and its now taking 5 hours to copy the 19.81GB
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Since performing the fist backup, a couple of days ago, which took twenty minutes, and the second backup, which is taking 5 hours, I installed MS office for Mac 2011 and Silverlight.
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Poor performance after format and OS install.

GT70 0ne
3610qm
680m
24g Kingston ram
Win7 64
Yesterday I formatted my drive and installed win7 64, after installing all the (old) drivers on the MSI website (link below), in the correct order, then waiting a good 8 hours for all the windows updates to install, I booted up WoW and found horrible FPS. I ran 3dmarks 11 and scored a dismal 2600 with my graphic and combined scores around 2500 and the physics at the normal 8500.
Searched online for some solutions, put the 680m as the default for WoW and 3dmarks but with no difference. I went ahead and got the latest drivers for the 680m off the Nvidia website and saw no improvement.
I did not install any utilities from the MSI website, are any of them needed for the proper function of the laptop or are they all fluff?
I did not install any firmware either, Is it needed?
Should I download the latest drivers for all the components or stick with MSI's?
The laptop itself is extremely quick when not needing graphical power.
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The following factors will affect the performance score:
- Using AC or DC.
- Power plans (Windows). High-performance or Balanced mode.
- Numbers of background processes.
- Wi-Fi/BT on or off.
- Improvements from newer BIOS, EC, or Video BIOS versions.
- Screen brightness (slightly affected).
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