Windows 10 Becomes Windows 8 When Media Center is added
While setting up and installing Media center with the Key that I have, It changes Windows 10 to windows 8.1 pro.
It keeps all the files, but renders builds useless.
I think that there needs to be a way to disable this or fix it.
a lot of people that are using Media center would like to use it with out it mucking up the works.
Is there a way to repair and fix this issue.
Oh and Media Center Does not Run it crashes when trying to execute on Windows 10 Enterprise.
Media Center is NOT supported by Win 10.
Sorry.
Proposed as answer by
Carey Frisch<abbr class="affil">MVP, Moderator</abbr>
Sunday, November 16, 2014 8:50 PM
Marked as answer by
Carey Frisch<abbr class="affil">MVP, Moderator</abbr>
Sunday, November 23, 2014 1:42 AM
Sunday, November 16, 2014 8:35 PM
Reviewing the data, it appears that to be inaccurate
to state that "Media Center" "is NOT Compatible with windows 10".
I give this reason for the justification of the argument
Windows Media Center is Keycode activated
and is part of the OS.
If it is a part of the os then it is intentional design of the product .
There fore seeing how it is a part of the product and there is no Hack being performed then how can we state that Media Center is not compatible.
that is like stating that my "Honda Insight" while it is a Hybrid can not run in electric only mode.
While not advertised to be able to run it in electric Mode, a knowledgeable user can manipulate the gas pedal and use electric mode as it was intended for .In this case the gas pedal depressed sends the vehicle in to charging mode, and then a light
amount of pressure on the gas will allow the said vehicle to run in Electric mode only until said battery is depleted.
Gas Pedal is the control mechanism for activating and deactivating the EV mode in the car
Windows Key Code is the mechanism for activating certain software in windows.
So this statement must be true and logical.
Windows 10 is built on Windows 8 back bone and thus because this is true, Windows 10 becomes Windows 8 Media Center because Windows 10 is windows 8 at the heart of the beast.
So to state that Media Center is NOT compatible is an untrue statement.
How ever what is true once you activate Media Center, there is enough changes to the registry that renders it to Windows 8 but not enough to cause a full deactivation.
Also if it where the case then , the registry system should have rejected the key .
So in my opinion Windows 10 is Windows 8 as it should have been originally .
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