Onecare compatible with Vista? Help?

19-10-2007, 23:28

Is Onecare compatible with Vista? Having problems with updates/firewall. Help!

Xan · 20-10-2007, 00:06

I use Live OneCare with my windows vista 32bit,i have no trouble

20-10-2007, 00:15

Thanks for the reply. Got no where with Onecare tonight, uninstalled it completley and got a free copy of avast - everything working now.

21-10-2007, 00:15

Found this info :- http://forums.microsoft.com/WindowsO...83525&SiteID=2

The annoying thing now is that if I run the cleanup tool Vista pops up with the message saying only Administrators can run this programme which my account is on the PC.

I'm also getting problems running windows media centre/windows Media player through the xbox360 as an extender because I believe of 'firewall' settings although everything is set correctly in windows firewall/WMP and WMC. I think that the Onecare programme is still causing problems (maybe within the registry) although I have uninstalled the programme.

Loosing the will to live.

dragon · 21-10-2007, 01:06

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Originally Posted by NEONKNIGHT

Found this info :- http://forums.microsoft.com/WindowsO...83525&SiteID=2

The annoying thing now is that if I run the cleanup tool Vista pops up with the message saying only Administrators can run this programme which my account is on the PC.

I'm also getting problems running windows media centre/windows Media player through the xbox360 as an extender because I believe of 'firewall' settings although everything is set correctly in windows firewall/WMP and WMC. I think that the Onecare programme is still causing problems (maybe within the registry) although I have uninstalled the programme.

Loosing the will to live.

try rightclicking then selecting "run as adminstrator" from the menu that pops up, will probably get a uac prompt.

21-10-2007, 19:55

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Originally Posted by dragon

try rightclicking then selecting "run as adminstrator" from the menu that pops up, will probably get a uac prompt.

Cheers, got the cleanup to run. Still having problems running media extender. The PC shows an alert saying that there is an extender on my network but when I run the set up WMC says it cannot find the extender.

dragon · 21-10-2007, 20:15

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Originally Posted by NEONKNIGHT

Cheers, got the cleanup to run. Still having problems running media extender. The PC shows an alert saying that there is an extender on my network but when I run the set up WMC says it cannot find the extender.

Firewall blocking it perhaps

otherwise I have no idea.

21-10-2007, 21:28

Media Extender Players are enabled in Windows Firewall, no other firewalls except the router are on. At a loss to know what the problem is.

dragon · 21-10-2007, 22:21

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Originally Posted by NEONKNIGHT

Media Extender Players are enabled in Windows Firewall, no other firewalls except the router are on. At a loss to know what the problem is.

have you get the 360 looking for the mediacenter pc?

I did get it working on my 360 once before but since I use it on my pc monitor it was a bit pointless..

afraid I can't remember what I did to get it going

21-10-2007, 23:40

Went to the media blade on the xbox360, ran WMC which gives the eight digit key number to put into the PC's WMC set up. When I run this the PC WMC says cannot find extender !!! - even though on start up of the PC if the xbox360 is switched on it reports windows media extender found, do you want to install, I select yes, go through the process, then WMC says it cannot find the extender. Just going around in circles with this problem.

23-10-2007, 23:09

After three days of trying I got the sucker to work!

dragon · 23-10-2007, 23:11

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Originally Posted by NEONKNIGHT

After three days of trying I got the sucker to work!

What was the problem?

23-10-2007, 23:25

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Originally Posted by dragon

What was the problem?

A mixture of things, wireless network config, extra layer of security in Vista. Thank gawd for Windows Vista For Dummies edition.