Hi all, I have a 2-month old Toshiba laptop on which everything was fine up
until the other day when I wanted to use Media Center (which had been working
fine up until the New Year when I last used it).

Initially, the shortcut vanished from my Start Menu, so I set a new shortcut
to ehome as instructed by Microsoft. However, when I attempt to open it I
get this message:

'Windows cannot open this program because it has been prevented by a
software restriction policy. For more information, open Event Viewer or
contact your system administrator.'

Well I am the administrator and I have set no such policies, and can see
nothing in my Services that strikes me as obvious.

A seperate issue that seems to have started at the same time is that I now
no longer have a WMP Mini Player, or an option to switch it on in the
Toolbars menu.

I suspect that some kind of Update has done the damage, but I cleared my
restore point history out literally hours before these problems came to light.

Here's my system info below; any advice would be gratefully received!!!

Host Name: TOSH
OS Name: Microsoft® Windows VistaT Home Premium
OS Version: 6.0.6000 N/A Build 6000
OS Manufacturer: Microsoft Corporation
OS Configuration: Standalone Workstation
OS Build Type: Multiprocessor Free
Registered Owner: Jon
Registered Organization: TOSHIBA
Product ID: 89578-OEM-7332157-00237
Original Install Date: 23/11/2007, 21:59:02
System Boot Time: 20/01/2008, 09:42:37
System Manufacturer: TOSHIBA
System Model: Satellite P200
System Type: X86-based PC
Processor(s): 1 Processor(s) Installed.
[01]: x64 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 13
~1667 Mhz
BIOS Version: TOSHIBA V1.50, 11/07/2007
Windows Directory: C:\Windows
System Directory: C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device: \Device\HarddiskVolume2
System Locale: en-gb;English (United Kingdom)
Input Locale: en-gb;English (United Kingdom)
Time Zone: (GMT+01:00) Sarajevo, Skopje, Warsaw, Za
Total Physical Memory: 2,046 MB
Available Physical Memory: 709 MB
Page File: Max Size: 4,307 MB
Page File: Available: 2,670 MB
Page File: In Use: 1,637 MB
Page File Location(s): C:\pagefile.sys
Domain: WORKGROUP
Logon Server: \\TOSH
Hotfix(s): 68 Hotfix(s) Installed.
[01]: {AC76BA86-7AD7-0000-2550-7A8C40000
[02]: {69F1CF92-4A66-4785-BBBD-849EA1B68
[03]: KB905866
[04]: KB925255
[05]: KB925528
[06]: KB925902
[07]: KB929399
[08]: KB929615
[09]: KB929685
[10]: KB929735
[11]: KB929761
[12]: KB929762
[13]: KB929763
[14]: KB929777
[15]: KB930163
[16]: KB930178
[17]: KB930311
[18]: KB930568
[19]: KB930857
[20]: KB931099
[21]: KB931174
[22]: KB931573
[23]: KB931621
[24]: KB932030
[25]: KB932471
[26]: KB933579
[27]: KB933729
[28]: KB933847
[29]: KB934237
[30]: KB934796
[31]: KB936021
[32]: KB936357
[33]: KB936782
[34]: KB936825
[35]: KB937077
[36]: KB938127
[37]: KB939159
[38]: KB940105
[39]: KB941202
[40]: KB941229
[41]: KB941568
[42]: KB941569
[43]: KB941644
[44]: KB943078
[45]: KB928089
[46]: KB929123
[47]: KB929427
[48]: KB929916
[49]: KB931213
[50]: KB932246
[51]: KB932406
[52]: KB933360
[53]: KB933928
[54]: KB935280
[55]: KB935807
[56]: KB936824
[57]: KB938123
[58]: KB938194
[59]: KB938979
[60]: KB939653
[61]: KB941649
[62]: KB941651
[63]: KB942615
[64]: KB942624
[65]: KB942763
[66]: KB943302
[67]: KB943411
[68]: KB943899
Network Card(s): 1 NIC(s) Installed.
[01]: Realtek RTL8101E Family PCI-E Fast
(NDIS 6.0)
Connection Name: Local Area Connec
DHCP Enabled: Yes
DHCP Server: 192.168.1.1
IP address(es)
[01]: 192.168.1.2
[02]: fe80::2872:cc6b:8924:f5f7