Reinstating my hub PC after reformatting my hard drive.
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9. juli 2010 04:21
I have had Windows Live OneCare on a home network of three PC's for a few years now and it is working so well all the time, I hate to see it discontinued after October.
Recently I ran into some difficulty with the hub PC that necessitated a complete system recovery, which meant that the hard drive was reformatted. Upon recovery of the PC, I re-installed OneCare and it is working well as always, except that I can no longer make this PC the hub PC.
When I open OneCare and go to "Manage Your OneCare Circle", I do not get the three choices that were available prior to the re-install. The three choices are (1) "Add a PC to your OneCare Circle", (2) "Make this PC a hub PC", and (3) "Remove this PC". With this new install, option 2 is not available on this PC. I can, however, make either of the other two PC's a hub PC because this option is readily available on them.
I would much prefer to have this PC as the hub because it is central of the three, and most convenient for me insofar as monitoring the network circle is concerned. I suppose with Microsoft discontinuing OneCare in October of this year, it may no longer offer technical support. Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
I will miss Live OneCare as my security system and I hope I can find something similar to replace it with
I hope I have reached at the right place. I have Live One Care for a few years now, (hate to see it go in October), on a home network of 3 PC's. Recently I ran into difficulty with the hub PC where I was forced to do a system recovery whereby the hard drive was re-formatted. Upon recovery of the PC I reinstalled Live One care and it is working fine except that I cannot make this PC my hub PC any longer. When I open One Care and go to "Manage Your OneCare Circle", I should get from the drop down list, 3 choices, namely (1)"Add a PC to your Onecare Circle" (2) "Rename This PC", and (3) "Make this PC a hub PC". The problem is, I get only the first 2 choices and not the third, and so I cannot return this PC to hub PC status. Any help will greatly appreciated
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9. juli 2010 09:03Redaktør
When you go to "Manage you OneCare Circle" on this reinstalled PC, do you see the other PCs listed? If so, it already is a hub, having been recognized by the PC name on the activation of OneCare.
-steve
~ Microsoft MVP Windows Live ~ Windows Live OneCare| Live Mesh|MS Security Essentials Forums Moderator ~- Markeret som svar af Stephen BootsMVP, Moderator 9. juli 2010 13:50
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9. juli 2010 13:54Redaktør
To expand on my previous reply, which I marked as the Answer, if you go to Manage your Circle and only the 3 PCs are listed and not a 4th ghost PC of the hub prior to the format/reinstall, it is still the hub.
OneCare has already been discontinued, by the way. Your subscription will remain fully supported until it expires. At that point, you will need to remove OneCare as it will not only be unsupported, it will stop functioning fully and will only provided limited protection.
How to reach support (FAQ) - http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/onecareinstallandactivate/thread/30400b52-7f26-4ba0-bc18-17e305329d90
See this post for End of Life information for Windows Live OneCare - http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/onecaregeneral/thread/81996436-edad-41ba-bdfc-02fc094e2ca9
Uninstall OneCare http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/onecaregeneral/thread/732e6371-2e71-479a-8cd6-b189941ed4fb, use the cleanup tool: http://social.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/onecareinstallandactivate/thread/399071e2-49dc-4767-932d-d261e3965943/, and then download and install the free Microsoft Security essentials for malware protection - http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/resources.aspx
If you used OneCare for backups, you'll still be able to restore from old backups if you use the OneCare Restore tool - http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/onecarebackupandrestore/thread/e5d686c8-762b-4b22-bc08-bfb93f911e57, but you'll need to seek an alternative backup solution.
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