The files are on the Windows installation or recovery medium." Now I tried to set up the laptop again, but the message "Some files are missing. I've also bought keys and tried them that didn't work either. However, with Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center, he now wants a product key, but I don't have one. I got my laptop with Win8 at the time and it was automatically updated for Windows. This is the typical case of end users doing all the testing.I've had the problem for ages that Windows shows that it is not activated. I'm pretty sure nobody at Microsoft's Windows 8 team ever installed the MCP. The bottom line is: Media Center Pack is really poorly handled. Luckily Windows 8 activation is in the stupid full-screen mode, so it is really easy to copy/paste a license key. Then I typed the Media Center Pack key and that helped. The first thing it did after a reboot, it complained about Windows not being activated! Aow come on! I punched in the Windows 8 key and it didn't work. My Windows 8.1 started disliking me after that. I installed them and a reboot was requested. Then came the 2nd Tuesday, traditionally it is the day for Microsoft security updates.
Everything worked, and that was that, until. The upgrade completed after the boot and there it was, the Windows 8.1 had Media Center Pack installed. I did that and guess what, during shutdown there was an upgrade installing. I found an article at the My Digital Life forums, where somebody complained having the same issue. The classic remedy for everything ever since Windows 1.0 has been a reboot. The natural thing to do next is to go googling. The option to add features was gone at that point, so I really didn't know what to do. For a couple of minutes Windows did something magical and ended the installation with "Something went wrong" type of message. Now that I needed the feature, again I went to add features, and hey presto! It said, that the key was ok. Nice.Īt the time I had plenty of other things to take care of and the media-issue was silently forgotten. That should be an easy fix, right?Īfter the 8.1 upgrade was completed, I went to "Add Features to Windows", said that I already had a key, but Windows told me that nope, "Key won't work". I got a couple of the keys and installed one into my laptop.Īnyway, the 8.1 upgrade forgot to mention that it would downgrade the installation back to non-media capable. To fix that, couple months after the release Microsoft distributed Media Center Pack keys for free to anybody who wanted to request one. After Windows 8 was released it didn't have much media capabilities. At the time I didn't realize it, but the upgrade lost my Media Center Pack.Īt the time I didn't realize that, but then I needed to play a DVD with the laptop and noticed, that the OS is not capable of doing that anymore.
Earlier I wrote about upgrading my Windows 8 into Windows 8.1.
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