Windows XP Media Center edition... get a ''Cannot Find Windows Messenger'' error when starting up media center... wouldn't bother me - but my son just got an XBox 360, and it cannot connect to the PC due to the messenger problem! How can I get the correct version of messenger that media center will recognize?

Try going into Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs, click on the Media Center software, if listed, and see if it gives a choice to Change and/or Repair. You'll probably need your Windows CD if/when it prompts for it.

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REinstall the media player. try using playing ur files in VLC media player from videolan.org

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no this has no effect. Usually jittery audio is hard drive or resource related as it is writing data and outputting data at the same time.
one reolution may be to scale down the quality of the recording to see if that helps.
Lastly check for updated audio/capture card drivers

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The only usefull solution i have found is running mcerepair from this site

http://blogs.msdn.com/peterrosser/archive/2005/10/21/483723.aspx

Its from the microsoft developer network so while not being official it is from someone at microsoft

alternativly you could run "sfc /scannow" from commandline or the start > run dialog, this will return all windows system files to their original versions, it might solve your issue

hope you find this helpfull

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Xbox 360-computer?

To connect the Xbox 360 console to this computer, you must be running Windows XP Service Pack 2, Update Rollup 2 for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, or Windows Vista.
To obtain your setup package or instructions for connecting your Xbox 360, select the version of Windows installed on this computer from the following list.

To determine the version of Windows XP Media Center Edition that you are running, follow these steps:

Start Media Center.
On the Settings menu, click General.
Scroll down, and then click About Media Center.
Click Software Version

The version number of Media Center you are running is displayed.

To determine the version of Windows XP that you are running, follow these steps:

On the Start menu, right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.
On the General tab, under System, look for the version of Windows that you are running.

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http://support.microsoft.com/search/default.aspx?mode=r&query=TV+the+screen+is+black+&spid=1173&catalog=LCID%3D1033&1033comm=1&res=20 ,here you should find the fix for your problem. good luck.

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This should a simple fix to enable Messenger if you have your XP disk handy.

Go to "Add/Remove programs"

You will see an add/remove windows components, or something similar.

If the Windows Messenger box is already ticked, untick it and OK it then exit out and go back to this.

Now Tick the box. It may ask you to insert your CD.

Once done, OK it again and restart your PC.

DONE.

If this still causes issues, try downloading Windows Live Messenger (about 175MB) and run it directly from the website. Saving to yourPC has issues and often does not work.

I'm not really clued up with Xbox and other game boxes, so all I have done here is to activate Messenger in one format or another on you PC.

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Goto MSN.com and download the latest messanger. But if you want to stop the messanger from loading do the following.

1. goto start > click on run
2. type MSCONFIG click ok
3. go to the startup tab
4. fnd the messanger and uncheck the box.
5. restart the computer.

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