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Thanks for chiming in, fellow "New Cone". I'm sure the "old-bies" on here want to know when something is going on outside of their circle. I don't like installing these "all inclusive codec packs" that throw 5 to 10 different configurations at your PC with settings that...

It could just be an odd coincidence.

I'll look into your info, Jeff, though I'm not going to install anything on the Media PC that isn't already on it. It does not even get updates!

But my point is that the only codec I had installed was Haali Matroska Splitter and everything was working fine in Win7 Media Center up until I installed VCL. My only reason for installing VCL was because I was unable to watch captions on an AVI file that came with a caption text file (and the forei...

I disagree. W7 Media Center was able to view and play all AVI files fine before I installed VLC. Installing VLC changed something that prevented W7 Media Center's ability to recognize AVI files, and the uninstaller obviously did not revert my computer to all of its previous values. A codec's registr...

What do you mean? My system worked fine before installing VLC. I installed VLC, which changed something in my settings. I'd like to know what VLC did so that I can undo it. Other online communities (i.e. Microsoft or Stack Overflow), obviously, are not going to be knowledgeable about what VLC does w...

I uninstalled VLC, but the AVI files still do not appear in Windows 7 Media Center.

I use W7 Media Player all the time on a HTPC. That is all this PC does. It has our tuners plugged into it, Media Player is always full screen, we control everything via the Media Center remote, and updates are turned off for it. Media Center is not very good at displaying Captions, though (OK, it ju...