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<blockquote data-quote="DFire" data-source="post: 95262" data-attributes="member: 27474">Are you running Vista?I am and had exactly the same problem - I've eventually found that I not only have to run it when logged on as an administrator but also use 'elevated privileges' (ie right click MediaPortal and select 'run as administrator'). I have not found out why for sure but there's clearly something that Media Portal does that needs admin privileges and on Vista, even running as admin, you don't have them(!). Vista normally pops up a dialog when it needs these privileges, but only for apps that understand it, otherwise it either gets silently ignored or 'virtualised'.Incidentally, media portal stores all its settings in the main program directory structure which Vista just doesn't allow - it silently replaces the folders with virtual ones (actually stored in your logon profile area) which is a right pain. Nice idea but it screws too many apps up. In many cases it's just poor programming to use the program directories for user settings, but in MP it stores the central application settings/log files there so it is appropriate. MP configuration just needs to be modified to handle this (Not a priority I would expect as it does still work, but each user has a separate config/EPG etc).Anyway, I've managed to set MP to always run 'as administrator' using the Compatibility settings which works OK but you have to have an admin password to&nbsp; run it if you are logged on as a 'normal' user (Which defeats the object).If you are running XP there might be a similar issue but it would normally be more obvious (Try using regmon or filemon, if you can get a copy, to see if there are any failures), but if you are running as admin this is unlikely to be the case (Unlike Vista where you never 'actually' logon as an admin).Does that help at all?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DFire, post: 95262, member: 27474"] Are you running Vista? I am and had exactly the same problem - I've eventually found that I not only have to run it when logged on as an administrator but also use 'elevated privileges' (ie right click MediaPortal and select 'run as administrator'). I have not found out why for sure but there's clearly something that Media Portal does that needs admin privileges and on Vista, even running as admin, you don't have them(!). Vista normally pops up a dialog when it needs these privileges, but only for apps that understand it, otherwise it either gets silently ignored or 'virtualised'. Incidentally, media portal stores all its settings in the main program directory structure which Vista just doesn't allow - it silently replaces the folders with virtual ones (actually stored in your logon profile area) which is a right pain. Nice idea but it screws too many apps up. In many cases it's just poor programming to use the program directories for user settings, but in MP it stores the central application settings/log files there so it is appropriate. MP configuration just needs to be modified to handle this (Not a priority I would expect as it does still work, but each user has a separate config/EPG etc). Anyway, I've managed to set MP to always run 'as administrator' using the Compatibility settings which works OK but you have to have an admin password to run it if you are logged on as a 'normal' user (Which defeats the object). If you are running XP there might be a similar issue but it would normally be more obvious (Try using regmon or filemon, if you can get a copy, to see if there are any failures), but if you are running as admin this is unlikely to be the case (Unlike Vista where you never 'actually' logon as an admin). Does that help at all? [/QUOTE]

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