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Original Post: Windows Media Center 2005 == Fustrating Night and Morning
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Encouraged by posts like Don's on how cool WMC2005 is, and since I have a Media Center PC and I had the disks from MSDN, I tried to upgrade my WMC 2004 to 2005. Bad mistake, especially when you have a conference to speak at this week. The good news is that it is up to date in the sense that it has the SP2 bits as well as the .NET Framework as part of the OS. The bad news is my upgrade process. First, near the end of the install, it asked for the SP2 disk even though it had everything on it's two disks and wanted a directory on the SP2 disks that doesn't exist. But the worst part is when it started to spit out a whole bunch of dialog boxes trying to upgrade/install the Media Center having to do with the .NET Framework and 2.0 versions. The best I can figure is that is that this is due to the Framework Unification Changes made in the 2.0 CLR and Framework. It kept trying to load 2.0 assemblies even though the Media Center appears to have been built with the 1.0 Framework. What ensued was a whole night and morning until 3 AM of having to finally go back to the original Toshiba factory CD, install WMC 2004 and then WMC2005 and finally all was good. It had better have a lot more than one Energy Blue theme (which I could have downloaded) after all this!
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