Microsoft just pushed out a cumulative update of Windows 7 Media Center updates. Although, I recommend you have automatic updates turned off and manually update your software. Or, at very least, schedule an off-peak check-in time. I say this for two reasons… 1) You don’t want an update to muck up things while you’re watching or recording your favorite shows. 2) You might just want to wait a couple of days to ensure the update doesn’t have any unintended consequences – a few days is usually enough time to hear from other, more brave folks to tell us if bad things happen from the update or not. This Media Center updates include some useful items – especially for CableCARD users. Here are the main points from the update: Read the rest of this entry »
Terrible advice.
A few days is just long enough to get infected by the virus that gets written by hackers who reverse engineer the security fixes in the update.
It’s a tough call and hard to find the right balance. I’ve had newly released MS patches and McAfee DATs break things in the past. I’d say it’s pragmatic to wait a good 12-24 hours at least to see what happens on the message boards before applying any sort of update.
I think he means manual or off peak Media Center updates, right? This is separate from Windows Updates. It’s set through Media Center. I’m not sure how much of the Media Center updates are security related.
This update breaks h.264 playback of hd-tv channels using satellite tuners (my case). Roll-back of the update fixes things.
how and where can i get a true copy of windows media center for windopws 7
none of the sites i have tried allow a correct download for free espaecially microsoft site (crap)