I seem to be missing the strip in media center which has Live TV, etc on it.  Is that because I don't have a tuner card attached yet?

Previously in Vista wmc it was always there, and also in 7, on one of the other strips there are other TV links.

It's weird, some of the promotional stuff in WMC is gone too.  I've since edited the menu and put a theme on it, I thought maybe i did something during editing, but placed the original ehres.dll back in place, just to make sure, and it was still missing (the TV strip)

Do I somehow have a botched installation?  everything else is perfect, that would seem weird, or does it not show the strip unless tuner is installed?  I'd like to know before I proceed finishing installing all my apps and so forth, lest I find myself doing everything over again.

thanks,

rlr