Problems with Media Center, Media Player!!

I am havinb a Windows XP Media Center 2005 os on my laptop. I am using the
laptop since 2-3 years now. Every thing was working fine till a month back.

Last month, my graphics card had a problem and cause of that I had to change
the motherboard of the laptop. It was done by authorized HP service center.

After that I am facing a strang frustrating problem. The speaker on/off
button on my Media Center key pad of the laptop is acting wierd, and speakers
are geting on/off randomly, at the same time It launches the Media Center,
Quick Play and Media Player randomly whenever this speaker button starts
acting randomly.
This is causing a huge problem. The guy in the service center says that
this is not a hardware problem but a software problem. Initially he helped me
to disable the media center on my machine by editing in the group policies.
With that the problem with speaker button conitnued but at least it was not
launching the medica center, quick play and media player applications. which
was ok with me as I do not use the medica center applications.
Last week I had to restore the laptop to the defaul by running the system
recovery utility which comes along with the laptop. Now this has removed
those group policies. Now I cannot find any entry related to media center in
the group policies.

Could you please help me to with this, I want to uninstall, disable the
media center applications permanantly. I have tried the group policy,
registry entries .. but still its of no avail. I have even updated the HP
drivers on my machine to the latest one.

Could you please provide me some solution which will help me with this very
frustrating problem with media center.

In spite of what HP told you, this sounds like hardware. If it was working
before you sent the laptop off to them, then it seems likely that when they
opened it up, they accidentally did something in addition to fixing the graphics
issue. Or they only fixed something which was symptomatic of a larger issue.
Call them and be insistent. Escalate to the next tier if needed. Be nice but
persistent.

On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 20:30:03 -0800, How to uninstall Media Center in XP <How to
uninstall Media Center in > wrote:

>I am havinb a Windows XP Media Center 2005 os on my laptop. I am using the
>laptop since 2-3 years now. Every thing was working fine till a month back.
>
>Last month, my graphics card had a problem and cause of that I had to change
>the motherboard of the laptop. It was done by authorized HP service center.
>
>After that I am facing a strang frustrating problem. The speaker on/off
>button on my Media Center key pad of the laptop is acting wierd, and speakers
>are geting on/off randomly, at the same time It launches the Media Center,
>Quick Play and Media Player randomly whenever this speaker button starts
>acting randomly.
>This is causing a huge problem. The guy in the service center says that
>this is not a hardware problem but a software problem. Initially he helped me
>to disable the media center on my machine by editing in the group policies.
>With that the problem with speaker button conitnued but at least it was not
>launching the medica center, quick play and media player applications. which
>was ok with me as I do not use the medica center applications.
>Last week I had to restore the laptop to the defaul by running the system
>recovery utility which comes along with the laptop. Now this has removed
>those group policies. Now I cannot find any entry related to media center in
>the group policies.
>
>Could you please help me to with this, I want to uninstall, disable the
>media center applications permanantly. I have tried the group policy,
>registry entries .. but still its of no avail. I have even updated the HP
>drivers on my machine to the latest one.
>
>Could you please provide me some solution which will help me with this very
>frustrating problem with media center.
Barb Bowman
MS-MVP
http://www.digitalmediaphile.com
http://digitalmediaphile.wordpress.com