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Does WMC have any issues with Norton software?
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No. Oh, the Media Center will of course need to access the net each day to download current tv listings, so when Nortons pops up its warning telling you that something is trying to access the net, be sure to tell it that YES, it has your permission to do that always. It needs to download the free tv listings each day in order to function as a tivo.
There's one thing to be very aware of when you are setting up your tv stations and allowing it to get its very first batch of tv listings from the net:
The moment you tell your Media Center to connect to the tv guide will forever be the time of the day at which it will check for the tv guide.
I know this because the first time I finished setting up my media center is was 1 am. I went into the Media Center tv controls and told it to go ahead and get its listing for the first time. Which it did. And for the next year it would always wake up my computer from hibernation at 1am and connect to the net and download the tv guide.
Later when I had to wipe down my whole computer, well, it was 3am when I finished setting up my media center, and now I got woken up at 3am every night as it wakes my computer up from hibernation and connects to the net and downloads the tv guide.
The time is not in the "scheduled tasks". It isn't in the media center's Settings. The time is buried in the registry somewhere, in some binary expression of the time. Why? I guess they are afraid that if people could choose their preferred time for it to connect, everyone would pick 12 noon and the system would get overloaded or something.
So be warned! Do your first tv guide download at the exact time at which you won't be distracted by it! Like after you're usually at work, or something. Sometime not in the middle of the night!
