Reboot & return the system to “factory configuration” – Vista Home Premium Edition.I tried a variety of the suggested solutions, including, amongst other things, checking the registry to ensure that Media Center Recorded TV content was still associated with the Media Center application deleting thumbnail previews clear thumbnail caches clearing the Media Center database plenty of reboots. In order to minimise Media Center down-time (it’s an *important* highly used system around here!), I sought some remedies, spending a couple of days Bing’ing and Google’ing possible answers.
This was possibly related to the the thumbnail issue – perhaps the system was trying to rebuild all the thumbnails every time the menu section was opened? Not long after this the system started to respond very slowly when switching between menu sections, with the “spinning circle of wait” hanginng around longer and longer. Initially it started by refusing to create thumbnails of recorded programmes in the RecordedTV not a bid deal – we can live without thumbnails. Unfortunately, all good things come to an end, and recently the system has started mis-behaving. I believe that this sytem has remaind stable and useable for such a long time, as virtually no additional software has been installed other than Skype, and some virus-scanning and anti-malware utilities. Sharing the “Recorded TV” folder on the A2420 allows the content to be watched on any laptop in the house – a handy bonus 🙂 Using a handy XBOX-360 as a Media Center Extender allows recorded TV from the A2420 to be shared to the TV in the living room. With it’s built in web-cam and microphones, it is also a very useful video-conferencing system, or just handy for the odd bit of Skyping with friends and family. This system is an extremely effective Media Center PC. Also, all recommended hardware upgrades (from Microsoft) were applied. The machine was regularly updated with all important, and recommended updates from Microsoft. The machine has been happily running the factory installed Vista Home Premium Edition from new, and for 95% of its life has been used as a Media Center hence pretty much all that is was running was Windows Media Center.
The main reason why the XPS A2420 was one of the last machines that I have upgraded to Windows 7, was purely down to the fact that I had no reason to do so, until recently 🙂
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