Need to Fully Disable MCE

[Sandbox]

I have a Media Center PC with MS MCE installed. I have configured it and it works, but SageTV offers a greater control over resources. I have disabled the required services to permit Sage TV to function, but MCE lingers. I would like to fully disable MCE and hopefully with the option to re-enable it if ever desired.

Assistance is needed with sufficient detail for the average computer user to:

Fully disable all service associated with MCE assuming that they are not required by SageTV

Stop MCE from loading on boot. MCE is not in the start-up directory or any other place I can think to look.

Stop the MCE controller from starting MCE if the green MCE button is pushed. Tangles up SageTV if I hit the button in error

I will use a USBUIRT so I assume the MCE IR Receiver is not required.

Thanks in advance
Tom

[perfessor101]

All Mce's programs run in service mode so they don't appear in the startup folders
To stop the MCE services from starting, as an Administrator level user:

click Start / Run / and enter the following command line to start the Microsoft Management Console for Services
mmc c:\windows\system32\services.msc

Here's a list of services I disable to stop MCE starting, set each one to manual or disable
- Media Center Extender Service
- Media Center Receiver Service
- Media Center Scheduler Service.


Periodically Windows updates will re-enable these services, so I use the following script to make sure they are stopped before starting SageTV


Here's my MCE startup script ...
MCEStart.bat, which I drop a shortcut to in the startup folder
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rem give MCE services a chance to finish starting ...
sleep 15

rem these are all the MCE specific programs I could find ... but I may be wrong
taskkill /F /IM ehmsas.exe
taskkill /F /IM ehRecvr.exe
taskkill /F /IM ehSched.exe
taskkill /F /IM ehtray.exe

sleep 5

rem I delay SageTV starting so it won't be competing with MCE for tuners

rem start SageTV with abovenormal priority in program mode
c:
cd "\program files\sagetv\sagetv"
start /abovenormal sagetv.exe

rem to start SageTV in service mode remove the rem from the next line
rem net start SageTV

exit

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Hope this helps ...
Bobby


-- doesn't specifically address the green MCE button, but then again I don't have one so it may ...