Media Center Stopped Working

[Dinger]

Hi, media center in vista ultimate has stopped working for me. I will detail
the problems below any help would be much appreciated. Thanks In Advanced.

Description
Stopped working

Problem signature
Problem Event Name: CLR20r3
Problem Signature 01: ehshell.exe
Problem Signature 02: 6.0.6000.16386
Problem Signature 03: 4549b55e
Problem Signature 04: mcstoredb
Problem Signature 05: 6.0.6000.0
Problem Signature 06: 4549bcf9
Problem Signature 07: 114
Problem Signature 08: 222
Problem Signature 09: System.InvalidOperationException
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033

Extra information about the problem
Bucket ID: 11717426

[John Inzer]

Maybe the info in the following thread will offer some clues:

Vista Media Center crashes after about 15 seconds
http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/thread/175130.aspx

[zachd [MSFT]]

That's a fairly generic fault bucket (10 possible base causes) -- if John's
advice isn't helpful, you'd pretty much have to take that to Product
Support.

[lbwitcher]

none of these suggestions worked for me. i am unwilling to create a new user just to make one piece of software work. that's ludicrous. and, the deletion of the files in the "eHome" folder makes no difference so the link to the greenbutton forum is ineffective. my media center hasn't worked ever since installing vista. it hasn't even worked for 15 seconds like some. just not at all! i like vista but this program's failure to function is really annoying. is there not someone at MS that knows about this problem who can fix it?

[zachd [MSFT]]

Actual product support might. The Media Center code is quite different than
other Windows code, and so it's generally not going to be possible to get
help on crashes/"stopped working" issues with *Media Center* here. I would
be pretty to extremely impressed if anybody was able to help based upon
*Media Center* fault data. If the Media Center crash starts impacting WMP
or DVDMaker or other Windows multimedia code, *that* might be possible to
deal with within the context of those other applications, but dealing with a
Media Center crash by itself in my eyes would probably require the DMP file
or something else super-concrete to work with. The abstract fault data that
might be useful for other areas is not useful for Media Center, sorry. =\

[rtatmoore]

I am running Vista Home Premium and my MCE started crashing at startup:

ehshell.exe crashed
Problem code: 1033


The greenbutton link about clearing the ehome directory contents fixed
my problem. So thank you very much. I have been trying to fix it here
and there for a while now.