All Posts Tagged With: "Media Center"

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10 Essential Free Vista Media Center Addons & Tweaks

I’ve had a lot of fun customizing Windows Vista Media Center over the last couple of days. Here are the best 10 free tweaks and addons I’ve found for VMC that will allow you to get so much more out of your Windows Media Center.

15Apr2008 | Tony Williams | 2 comments | Continued
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Start Vista Media Center In Media-Only Mode

In the final post of my Vista Media Center customization weekend, I’ve discovered thanks to Everton a way to open Vista Media Center in Media-Only mode.  This is a great tip if you have kids and you don’t want them to start messing with your PC:

13Apr2008 | Tony Williams | 2 comments | Continued
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Yougle: Watch Youtube Videos In Vista Media Center

I’ve spent some time this weekend trying to improve the brilliant Windows Vista Media Center.  One feature that VMC is lacking is the ability to watch Youtube videos.  The problem was easily solved with a few google searches and I found Yougle Vista.

12Apr2008 | Tony Williams | 1 comment | Continued
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Use DVDFab HD Decrypter To Copy HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Discs

Regular readers of this site will know that my favorite app for copying DVDs is DVDFab Decrypter. Will DVDFab has just got even better with the release of DVDFab HD Decrypter, which adds HD-DVD and Blue-Ray support.
Now it’s even easier than before to rip your DVDs to your HDD and to also remove any [...]

11Feb2008 | Tony Williams | 3 comments | Continued
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How To Play Xvid And Avi Files With Vista Media Center

I’ve spent a lot of time this weekend finally setting up Windows Vista Media Center, and I suddenly realised that Vista Media Center won’t play Xvid and Avi files even if Windows Media Player will. If you want to add support for third party codecs including Xvid and Avi files in Vista Media Center then [...]

28May2007 | Tony Williams | 23 comments | Continued
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How To Auto-Logon To A User Account At Startup With Vista

One of the annoying features of Vista is that because you have to create an account and a password for every other PC or device that you want to share files with. Because of this, everytime Vista all of these accounts are displayed, even if you don’t actually use them on the PC, and you [...]

27May2007 | Tony Williams | 9 comments | Continued
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How to enable the DVD Library in Windows Vista Media Center

Iv’e spent a lot of time copying my DVD library to my computer’s Hard Disk to protect my disks and to save having to swap them around everytime I want to watch them. In Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, DVD content that was stored on the hard disk automatically appeared [...]

17Apr2007 | Tony Williams | 15 comments | Continued
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