Ice Guide Fix For Vista Rc2

MERAG · **4th November 2006, 07:45 PM**

I hear many are struggling to retain ice guide settings in vista rc2.i have a working ice guide for a while now in vista rc2.the fix was to turn off automatic updates.

MERAG

Bolty · **4th November 2006, 09:53 PM**

I have had Ice working on build 5744 without fault for 3 weeks.
I still have auto-updates activated, but I have turned off user account control.

MERAG · **4th November 2006, 10:13 PM**

Vista MCE regularly rewrites the discovery service registry key thus erasing ice guide reg info.This happens once a day when the mcupdate.exe scheduled task runs. Disabling windows update i assume would stop this from occuring and retain ice guide reg settings.also too i have installed keep key utility from the downloads section here.

Georgea · **7th November 2006, 08:03 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by MERAG

Vista MCE regularly rewrites the discovery service registry key thus erasing ice guide reg info.This happens once a day when the mcupdate.exe scheduled task runs. Disabling windows update i assume would stop this from occuring and retain ice guide reg settings.also too i have installed keep key utility from the downloads section here.

Hmm, I installed the keep key utility, and it works a treat, but I wonder, what if you turn off the optimisation in MCE?

Cheers,

Georgea

Niall · **8th November 2006, 03:33 PM**

Hi,

Ok i did a bit of snooping...

I think i found the *easy* fix for this problem (and I expect a free subscription from IceTV if it works and they use it!!)..

Someone please try it out as I dont have any working TV drivers for my Vista x64 setup (I own Fusion Lites!)......

When this mcupdate runs - it looks to see if a DWORD registry key 'disableUpdateDiscSvc' exists (and has a value <> 0)..

This DWORD value is in the same location as the discSvc key
(ie ... HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\.....\Media Center\Service\EPG)..

If it finds this - then it will NOT change the discSvc setting (otherwise it will get reset back to default each time mcupdate runs)..

Someone please confirm that this actually works..!

enjoy!

Niall

Niall · **8th November 2006, 04:23 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Niall

Hi,

Ok i did a bit of snooping...

I think i found the *easy* fix for this problem (and I expect a free subscription from IceTV if it works and they use it!!)..

Someone please try it out as I dont have any working TV drivers for my Vista x64 setup (I own Fusion Lites!)......

When this mcupdate runs - it looks to see if a DWORD registry key 'disableUpdateDiscSvc' exists (and has a value <> 0)..

This DWORD value is in the same location as the discSvc key
(ie ... HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\.....\Media Center\Service\EPG)..

If it finds this - then it will NOT change the discSvc setting (otherwise it will get reset back to default each time mcupdate runs)..

Someone please confirm that this actually works..!

enjoy!

Niall

Ok - included is a .reg file to make this a bit easier to test....

DisableGuideUpdate.zip

Note that this should 'theoretically' fix this problem on ALL 'Non MS approved' 3rd party guides (ie IceTV, EPGStream, Bladerunner Pro etc)..

Enjoy

Niall

PS - > Text below for this .reg file (if the attacthment doesnt work - create a file called 'temp.reg' and copy and paste the following text) >>

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Media Center\Service\EPG]
"disableUpdateDiscSvc"=dword:00000001

Nigel Roden · **8th November 2006, 08:46 PM**

Mrs Nigel here.
A couple of q's re this issue
1. How do I turn off automatic update?
2. How did you get keepKey to work?
3. Niall, I'm working with your fix now, but not getting far. Could you send me instuctions for a complete learner please.
Thanks guys.

Niall · **8th November 2006, 10:13 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nigel Roden

Mrs Nigel here.
A couple of q's re this issue
1. How do I turn off automatic update?
2. How did you get keepKey to work?
3. Niall, I'm working with your fix now, but not getting far. Could you send me instuctions for a complete learner please.
Thanks guys.

Hi -

for 3. you just need to unzip this file - and double click on the included .reg file so that it is placed in your registry. (before you have installed icetv or whatever guide solution you are using on Vista).
in theory - if this works - 1. and 2. (and any of the other suggested workarounds) will not be required at all..

Niall