Media Center Critical Process error

Recently, I have received a "Critical Process Error Code: 3" when I try to
view recorded programs in Media Center. It just started doing this a couple
days ago. It suggests restarting the computer, but this did not correct the
error message. Whats Up!?

Are you using McAfee anti-virus software? There was a recent thread in this
newsgroup about it causing code 3 errors:

http://groups.google.com/group/micro...59763876d53bd2

Let me know if that is it.

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Michel Bordeleau
MS-MVP - Windows XP Media Center Edition
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"Daveball" <> wrote in message
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> Recently, I have received a "Critical Process Error Code: 3" when I try to
> view recorded programs in Media Center. It just started doing this a
> couple
> days ago. It suggests restarting the computer, but this did not correct
> the
> error message. Whats Up!?

Another reason why Error 3 may come up is it the Media Center Services are
not properly installed or removed. This happened to me for some reason.

Obviously, if you have Mcafee, try to resolve that first. If you don't, see
if your Media Center Services are running. If they aren't, it'd be easiest
to reinstall Windows Media Center Edition from scratch (otherwise, updates
may end up removing the services again... yeah that happened to me on one
machine... very annoying)

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Jason Tsang - Microsoft MVP

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"Daveball" <> wrote in message
news000C9CE-542A-4D7F-BE14-...
> Recently, I have received a "Critical Process Error Code: 3" when I try to
> view recorded programs in Media Center. It just started doing this a
> couple
> days ago. It suggests restarting the computer, but this did not correct
> the
> error message. Whats Up!?