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Just thought I'd update this post for fun. Bizzarly, windows 7 media centre is still working fine. Updates are available & more importantly everything media centre is working OK. I'm not going to be asking for help in maintaining this machine, I can handle that myself... I'm just feeling more inclined to let it keep running & see what happens.

Thanks both for your thoughts, I am recieving but not seeing the notices, Media centre stays on top. The event viewer has the warnings, currently I can get automatic updates. At login I get a notice about activation being required, but I just cancel it out & I'm allowed to continue. I seem to remember with XP you reached the point where you had to activate, no activation, no login. I'm not sure if I want to take the risk of leaving it unactivated as I'm using media centre more & more. So far no reboots or darkened screens! regards

Curious thing I noticed today....... My windows 7 media centre is still running great (installed Jan 24th 2010 on old test machine) I only use it for media centre with auto logon & media centre auto starting. The desktop does say, this copy has not been activated (or whatever it is) I guesss it's not downloading ms updates, although tv guide is still working... I wonder if microsoft have over-looked media centre in the reduced functionality thing? Any thoughts on why I can still use media centre on this pc, even though its not been activated? I'm definatley not using any crack/ hack / loader, just forgot about activation as this was intended to be a test install. I'll leave it as is & see how long it functions.... tbs