fai.music.metaservices.microsoft.com cannot access

I'm not great with computers but I am getting better and I agree 100% with what you said.

Time to look for new prospects and remedies.  Thanks.

This is what happens when corporate bullies at Microsoft are trying to force you to update. 

Microsoft remain silent, and then in the background disable key features, then pretend it's all about you, because Microsoft don't and never will admit they are ever wrong, or their crappy systems are often complete duds, broken or unfixable.

That's what endless bloated forums were created for - so you do the work to fix their problems, so they don't have to. Gone are the days of fixes and patches - Microsoft have a monopoly so don't care about you, the functionality of your operating system, or your computer. Period.

Just as long as you regularly buy a bright and shiny new system every time Microsoft demand you do so, is all they care about - Oh, and rip off subscriptions.

I have found a perfect solution that works great - it's called BUY APPLE HARDWARE. While they aren't a perfect company, they do at least tell the truth when they are dumping parts of systems and let users know what features they are disabling, removing, or upgrading - rather than leaving users in the dark, to work out for themselves they've been scammed by the very system they've paid for, and expect to be fit for purpose - and then to spend countless hours trying to fix the unfixable!! 

How about a little bit more honesty from Microsoft Corp?? Just hearing from someone might be a start, some one who isn't a moderator or volunteer, but someone who actually works there??

..And I can now confirm that the phase "metaservices" is nowhere in the registry,  Most likely Microsoft has hard-coded the path into the operating system. Terrible practice. It may be possible to over-ride it with a key though. Going to try something....

Hermes G.Atariguana,

thank's for the above about trying to get it working again, however, as Roger Pittock has commented, there is no sub-group "...TunerConfig" anywhere in the registry on my W7 machine. Have spent ages searching and it's nowhere at all.......?

Any ideas?

There is no sub-group "...TunerConfig" anywhere in the registry on my W7 machine. I am loathed to create one - but since the post is advocating blanking a key entry, it wouldn't help me anyway.