If you like many of us trying to use Media Browser on an extender such as an Xbox360 you’ve probably been witness to the customization error of death. The result is a locked up extender and no Media Browser plug-in interface for all those movies. Especially painful if you’ve implement our recent hack to enable a start menu strip just for Media Browser.

Don’t worry, we’re not going to leave you hanging behind! Here’s the solution to the problem, we need to give the extender permission to access that folder. First open up Windows Explorer and navigate to the users folder at, “C:\Users\” on the host computer. If you’ve already set up your extender you should see a user that begins “Mcx1” or something similar.

Copy down that username into the clipboard (or however you’d like to copy it) and then navigate on over to the “C:\ProgramData” folder. This folder is hidden by default, you can either enable hidden folder viewing in Folder Options or enter the location in the address bar and hit enter. Now, right-click the MediaBrowser folder and select “Share With –> Specific People…”. This should bring up a dialog like the one below.

Paste the user name you copied earlier into the dropdown box and hit the “Add” button. Most likely, through the magic of Windows, the username will be transformed into a uuid like the one you see above and that’s fine. Next to this new user set the permission level, chances are “Read” will do just fine for most circumstances. Setting this to “Read/Write” will enable Media Browser’s cache functions to properly save newly cached metadata when using your extender however.

That’s all there is to it, just load up your extender and enjoy Media Browser in it’s full shiny toy glory!

For even more Media Browser customization have a look at these guides on Getting Trailers Inside Media Browser and Adding Actor Images to the movie details page.