
Well, it happened again. Started the Media Centre (I'm in the UK) down,load again, at about 1 am UK time.
Download proceeding more slowly than last time, but after ~15 hours elapsed time (circa 4:15pm UK time, ~35% downloaded) the Media Centre download window disappeared again without leaving any error message.
Is the 15 hour thing a complete coincidence, or am I hitting some arbitrary time-out in the Media Centre download, or for MS's servers?
And why does the indicator led on my laptop's port on the router (it's ethernet-connected, not wifi) still keep hammering away as if the download is still carrying on? The $WINDOWS.~WS file does not appear to be increasing in size (2 folders, 52 files, ~31.1Gb), and I cannot see any likely candidate Application or Process in Windows TaskMaster for the download.
Update: that said, Unlocker reports several files within $WINDOWS.~WS as being held by PID 452 svchost.exe. There is a SYSTEM process running with that ID, using negligible (<1%) CPU, but it does appear to be doing IO Writes (352,661 and climbing slowly). svchost 452 contains ~14 services, including (inter alia) Windows Update).
What if I leave things running (the router is still hammering away 45 minutes after the download dialog window vanished). Is this my 'missing' Media Centre download process? Will the media creator kick back in if/when the 'download' finishes (if it ever does)?
Or has my scheduled download kicked in and kicked out the Media Centre download I initiated?
Does anyone have any idea at all what's going on here? Because I don't, and I'm running out of hair to tear out.
