A
Anthony Buckland
A little while back I asked about a situation I was running into:
video output was pausing every few seconds, and so was
each scanning operation on my scanner. I found with WinTasks
that ehrecvr was consuming around 50% of my CPU (dual D
Pentium, in a VAIO desktop model VGC-RB54 running
Win XP Media Center Edition). I didn't see a reply here, but
traffic in this group is heavy enough that I could have missed
one. At the time, I had no idea what ehrecvr is.
Anyway, now I know it's part of Media Center. After some
digging on Microsoft's site I found Aaron Stebner's Weblog,
which counsels (1) manually unregistering and reregistering
four Media Center services, and/or (2) rolling back Media
Center update rollups, in reverse order. After a good deal of
experimenting (I now have the commands for (1) in a root
..bat file, and suspect I may need them in the future again),
I've gotten rid of the peculiar pausing behavior, which is
apparently caused by the ehrecvr service hogging the CPU.
I've barely used Media Center in the past -- only for TV
watching -- which is good, because the ehrecvr problem
was apparently linked to MC's current inability on my
machine with its current software to (a) load and run
or (b) access the TV signal, depending on which rollups
are rolled back. So I won't miss it if I never succeed in
getting it going again I have our old CRT TV in my study
now.
However, I thought I might contribute something here by
recounting my experiences. Stebner's extensive
interchange with troubled users makes it sound as though
updates to MC are to be undertaken with trepidation. If
at all.
video output was pausing every few seconds, and so was
each scanning operation on my scanner. I found with WinTasks
that ehrecvr was consuming around 50% of my CPU (dual D
Pentium, in a VAIO desktop model VGC-RB54 running
Win XP Media Center Edition). I didn't see a reply here, but
traffic in this group is heavy enough that I could have missed
one. At the time, I had no idea what ehrecvr is.
Anyway, now I know it's part of Media Center. After some
digging on Microsoft's site I found Aaron Stebner's Weblog,
which counsels (1) manually unregistering and reregistering
four Media Center services, and/or (2) rolling back Media
Center update rollups, in reverse order. After a good deal of
experimenting (I now have the commands for (1) in a root
..bat file, and suspect I may need them in the future again),
I've gotten rid of the peculiar pausing behavior, which is
apparently caused by the ehrecvr service hogging the CPU.
I've barely used Media Center in the past -- only for TV
watching -- which is good, because the ehrecvr problem
was apparently linked to MC's current inability on my
machine with its current software to (a) load and run
or (b) access the TV signal, depending on which rollups
are rolled back. So I won't miss it if I never succeed in
getting it going again I have our old CRT TV in my study
now.
However, I thought I might contribute something here by
recounting my experiences. Stebner's extensive
interchange with troubled users makes it sound as though
updates to MC are to be undertaken with trepidation. If
at all.