ehrec.exe stopped working


After months of perfect service my Media PC has now started playing up, earlier when flicking through the guide I got an error message stating that a part of media centre had stopped and restarting it might help - but I can't get that error up now after 5 mins of going up and down!
When I set up a recording it states the recording could not be sheduled for an unknown reason.
If I try to record a program that's playing, it says it's in the middle of downloading guide data.
Also since this started it's placing reports in C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportQueue at the rate of one every 2 or 3 mins and an hour's worth is about a Gig!
Inside each one is some dumps and report.wer which typically looks like this.

Version=1
EventType=CLR20r3
EventTime=128390227751112935
ReportType=2
Consent=1
Response.type=4
Sig[0].Name=Problem Signature 01
Sig[0].Value=ehrec.exe
Sig[1].Name=Problem Signature 02
Sig[1].Value=6.0.6000.16386
Sig[2].Name=Problem Signature 03
Sig[2].Value=4549b54b
Sig[3].Name=Problem Signature 04
Sig[3].Value=ehepg
Sig[4].Name=Problem Signature 05
Sig[4].Value=6.0.6000.0
Sig[5].Name=Problem Signature 06
Sig[5].Value=464282fa
Sig.Name=Problem Signature 07
Sig.Value=3a6
Sig[7].Name=Problem Signature 08
Sig[7].Value=0
Sig.Name=Problem Signature 09
Sig.Value=.NullReferenceException.431366F5
DynamicSig[1].Name=OS Version
DynamicSig[1].Value=6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.1
DynamicSig[2].Name=Locale ID
DynamicSig[2].Value=2057
UI[2]=C:\Windows\ehome\ehRec.exe
File[0].CabName=Version.txt
File[0].Path=WEREB75.tmp.version.txt
File[0].Flags=65538
File[0].Type=5
File[1].CabName=memory.hdmp
File[1].Path=WEREB86.tmp.hdmp
File[1].Flags=2097152
File[1].Type=3
File[2].CabName=minidump.mdmp
File[2].Path=WER1602.tmp.mdmp
File[2].Flags=2162690
File[2].Type=2
FriendlyEventName=Stopped working
ConsentKey=CLR20r3
AppName=Windows Media Center Host Module
AppPath=C:\Windows\ehome\ehrec.exe
ReportDescription=Stopped working

Can anyone help - WAF going down fast

Thanks

Chris

sorry. just noticed it should have been in the software forum. can an admin please move.

Sounds like a corrupted Programming Guide

Try moving the folder "C:\users\all users\microsoft\ehome\epg " somewhere out of the ehome directory and run through the Guide setup again. If it doesn't work you can just move the old epg folder back in.

You may want to move the "C:\users\all users\microsoft\ehome\Recording" folder also.

The All Users directory is hidden, so you will have to enable viewing of hidden files and folders. Also, you'll probably have to stop all the Media Center services to get full access to those folders.

Thanks.
I'll try that first thing when i get back in tonight.

Chris

and it worked lovely.

thanks

Chris

Excellent! Glad I could help!

I just want to thank you also bjbinc - I'd spent half the night chasing my tail trying to fix my Media Center.

I'd installed the October Rollup for Media Center for Vista and everything had stopped working, after 30 seconds I got the good old 'A Critical Media Center Process has failed...' error and nothing worked.

I'd been crawling all over everywhere trying to find people having similar issues, I eventually tied down the error to ehRec from crawling through .crash files, found your post and bingo everything back to lovely perfection!

So a huge thank you from me because I would never have thought to do that! Cheers.

That's great!