MCE Won't start after recording

[dickwyn]

Hi all,

I have a weird problem and I probably don't post in the right forum, but I only noticed this problem after using Arkay's Hibernator. Not that there is anything wrong with this program cause it works very well. Thanks Arkay.

Normaly I would switch of my system without exiting Live TV, now with the Hibernator I can't do that so I go back to the Desktop ant then swith of. The computer keeps running and will hibernate after 5 min. Sweet, so far so good.

When I press the power button on my remote (Philips Pronto) the PC comes out of hibernation OK and I press either Start or Live TV on my remote and MCE starts fine!

The problem comes after I have recorded a show, the PC will wake up, record and Hibernate after the show is finished.

Later I switch on the system again, press Start or Live TV and nothing happens eventhough MCE is still minimised. Just a static Desktop.

The only resolution is to get my keyboard out and click on the minimised Icon fot MCE.

My wife of course would prefer not to use the keyboard and I have checked to have MCE always on top.

Can anybody help please?

Thanks in advance

dickwyn

[arkay]

Dick,

I doubt it has anything to do with the Hibernator. The only thing I can suggest and something that I always do is to shut down the MCE interface every time you're finished with it. That way when the machine wakes to record and sleeps again the interface will still be off. Manually powering up should and pressing start should then start MCE full screen as normal.

I do have a batch script being run by the hibernator that kills the MCE GUI everytime the machine starts up. So I always have to hit the green button. That might also work for you.

Create a batch file killmce.bat with the following contents:

taskkill.exe /F /IM ehshell.exe

then point the "resume from standby" executable to "killmce.bat".

Anytime the Hibernator puts your machine to sleep the first thing it will do when awakened is kill the MCE GUI.

Cheers,
Arkay.