ehExtHost.exe error when starting Media Center

[Darpad]

Last week I bought a new Windows Media Center 2005 based HP Media Center TV PC. Since then today was the first day when I tried opening Windows Media Center. But in the very first time itself, I got an error message stating “Application has generated an exception that could not be handled.” When I click OK, Media Center works fine without any problems.

I happened 3 to 4 times so far and am not able to get the cause of the problem. Is there anyone who came across this before? Is there any fix for the same?

[Beckinsale]

Yes, I’ve been through this problem earlier and managed to fix the same successfully. IN my case the cause of the problem was Norton Anti Virus. I received my new desktop with one year Norton subscription. After a year I downloaded a third party tool to remove Norton Antivirus and since then I was getting this error.

After lots of research somebody suggested me to download proper removal tool from Norton site and remove Norton. I did the same, restarted PC and since then never had this error again with Media Center.

See if there is something like this in your case as well.

[Scott2580]

Hello dude, instead of trying out anything else, simply check out this MSDN article describing solutions for ehExtHost errors while launching Media Center: http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archi...ia-center.aspx. They have described it very well with various solutions.