Windows Media Center Guide not Updating TV Listings from Zap2It past tuesday.21.07.15

Anonymous
2015-07-19T09:23:20+00:00

Overview:  Windows Media Center (WMC) is provided TV Listings, via the WMC Guide, from Zap2It.  If you go to the Zap2It TV Listings website*, there are approx 2 weeks of upcoming TV Listings.  When the WMC Guide is Updated, & functions correctly, those same 2 weeks of TV Listings are downloaded to WMC.  If we could use the Zap2It website to program the recording of TV programs, then we wouldn't need the WMC Guide to be downloaded. 

It's very early sunday asof this posting; the WMC Guide hasn't actually Updated for ~9 days... there are only TV Listings through this tuesday, in ~3 days.  The WMC Guide Update seems to run just fine, it's connecting with the site or source or whatever/wherever it gets the Guide from... but it say, "The Eps Listing Is Already Up To Date", even though, clearly, it is NOT 'up-to-date'.  I'm now getting, 'You've only got 3 days of listings!, you need to update the Guide !' scare-messages every time I go to WMC, & I click to Update the Guide, but just as when I manually run it, just as when WMC automatically runs the Guide Update, it ain't actually Updating! 

To be clear:  I'm using Win7Pro64bit; all--ALL--updates, for all software, Windows & otherwise, are daily checked & constantly kept up-to-date; there have been no changes to the computer, & it runs like a dream; WMC works the same, the WMC Guide Update works exactly the same, the only exception being this, "The EPG Listings Package is already up to date" thing, when it hasn't actually Updated the WMC Guide. 

So PLEASE don't post those standard, boilerplate replies about updating Windows &or clearing caches &or other such sophomoric hooey...  The problem is almost certainly with the Microsoft/Windows/WMC/Zap2It interface. 

You can go to the Zap2It website* yourself!, go there!, see for yourself!, the next 2 weeks of TV Listings are right there!... 

 ... so, why aren't those TV-Listings--already & always present--being actually downloaded to WMC?, why isn't the WMC Guide being Updated? 

 ... thank you! 

w 

[* http://zap2it.com/ | http://tvschedule.zap2it.com/tvlistings/ ]

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Anonymous
2015-07-21T03:48:22+00:00

Hello hank1111, 

You might check out this thread, especially the most recent replies, bottom of page 3 I think: 

Windows Media Center Guide Not Updating

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows\_xp-pictures/windows-media-center-guide-not-updating/8721f207-a694-43ce-bf38-6105968af080

I am NO expert on any of this stuff, but if ya' twisted my arm, I'd suggest the same possibility to you as I did to RW: 

"If you've still got your Windows OS CD maybe you could try removing & then reinstalling Windows Media Center entirely?... I'm sure there's a way to do this, but you'd want to get explicit instructions from someplace/someone who knows what they're about.  Also, if it's possible to do a total removal/uninstall & reinstall, -vs- some sort of 'repair', I would do the full thing, as the mere 'repair' might leave old, outdated WMC Guide EPG files that might bring you right back to this same sorry state-of-affairs!" 

 ... good luck hank! 

w

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-07-29T02:12:51+00:00

    I received an email from Microsoft Community advising me to try your solution.  It did not work for me.  I'm still seeing Zap2it as the service provider and no data is downloading.  Once I registered I posted a new feedback query with my new user name Bob_Half-Cocked but I don't see it in this thread. 

    Oh, I just noticed I posted it at Microsoft Connect.  I guess I now have a different Profile in each place.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-07-29T02:03:38+00:00

    I received an email from Microsoft Community advising me to try your solution.  It did not work for me.  I'm still seeing Zap2it as the service provider and no data is downloading.  Once I registered I posted a new feedback query with my new user name Bob_Half-Cocked but I don't see it in this thread.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-07-29T01:37:39+00:00

    Just wanted to let you know that I had the same issue and solved it.. 

    I posted my solution here:

    http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows\_xp-pictures/windows-media-center-guide-not-updating/8721f207-a694-43ce-bf38-6105968af080?page=9&tm=1438133750767

    It is the Second post from the top of page 9

    in essence it reads:

     had the same problem of the guide not populating even after a successful program guide update.  I followed all the tips posted here and none solved the issue.  I finally did this:

    1. Open Windows Media Center
    2. Press the Windows Media Center Button and then scroll to TASKS, then to settings.
    3. Then Go to GENERAL and then go to Windows Media Center Setup
    4. Select RUN SETUP AGAIN.  This will tell you that all your setting will be erased etc..  Follow the promps and setup you TV signal source region and zip.
    5. I had to do it two time because the first time I had inadvertently disconnected my ethernet cable.  After the second time the TV guide souce switched from Zap2it to Rovi the guide downloaded and after a few second I had the guide back to normal.

    Hope this helps.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-07-27T21:09:10+00:00

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