Well, life has given me little time as of late to look after this site, but I recently ran into an issue that I thought may help those that come across it.

I finished a reformat of my bedroom HTPC this weekend following an issue that I thought was the result of a system restore I did early last week.  When the same occurrence was found to resume upon a fresh install and configuration, I became desperate for help when my Google searches came up dry.  Media Center MVP of 2006 Richard Miller at thegreenbutton.com forums informed me that my issue was due to the Vista June Cumulative Update KB950126 and that it would need to be uninstalled.  I did so immediately (it does require a reboot).

My specific issue was more of an extreme annoyance.  For example, if I were watching a movie and needed to pause or stop it in order to take of something, the video would then resume playing whenever the screensaver (blank the screen, in my case) became activated.  Upon returning and hitting stop, I would find that the video would resume at the very beginning after hitting play again.  I do not have this system configured for standby as it never worked,  so whenever I powered on my system (my Harmony turns the TV and receiver on), the last video watched would begin playing.

There were other occurrences to these effects as well, but those were the most prominent and annoying of the bunch.

I’d post my results, but I’m at work and my HTPC has yet to come back up after rebooting.  Damn.