David

Comment #2646 from David [Reply]

I wish you could do this on the extenders.

Noname

Comment #2648 from Noname [Reply]

start direct live TV:
%SystemRoot%\ehome\ehshell.exe /homepage:VideoFullscreen.xml /PushStartPage:True – Live TV

Geo

Comment #2649 from Geo [Reply]

start live TV with the last seen channel
ehshell.exe /homepage:VideoFullscreen.xml /PushStartPage:True – Live TV:

rsvr85

Comment #2651 from rsvr85 [Reply]

Helpful list, especially nostartupanimation, thanks

Svish

Comment #2653 from Svish [Reply]

Nice list. How can you add the switches to a pinned shortcut/application? And how do you leave media mode if there are no close button?

Michael Healy

@Reply #2658 from Michael Healy [Reply]

To pin these to the taskbar you could just create a shortcut and drag it to the taskbar to create a new pinned item. Leaving media mode would need to be done through the shutdown menu in tasks. I wouldn’t recommend using both mediamode and noshutdownui together.

Alan Cooke

Comment #2654 from Alan Cooke [Reply]

Certainly appreciate you linking to our material. However, copying the entire article is not very cool. We would appreciate it if you just use a snippet of the article and not the entire article when reporting news.

You, as a website owner, should know that original work takes time and effort and getting your content ganked is frustrating.

Michael Healy

@Reply #2657 from Michael Healy [Reply]

Actually I use the Creative Commons 3.0 copyright and allow anyone to copy, modify, reproduce, resell, or mutilate my content in any way they’d like as long as credit is provided.

The only part copied verbatim from Missing Remote was the list itself. I’ll change the descriptions.

Steve D.

Comment #2655 from Steve D. [Reply]

Very useful. Thanks!

Please keep updating!

Lillgreen

Comment #2661 from Lillgreen [Reply]

Thanks for these great tips.
I stuck in the noanimation and it works great when launching from the start menu, howevever it does not work with the green button on my remote.
Any ideas on how to fix that?

Steve D

@Reply #2706 from Steve D [Reply]

That is because the green button doesn’t point to your shortcut.

I would also love to figure out how to do this.

Mikey-Z

@Reply #3231 from Mikey-Z [Reply]

Warning: Only try the directions below if you are comfortable editing the registry. This has only been tested on two win 7 RC x32 installs:

Launch regedit and search for MCE.PerUserSettings. I believe there are two different keys… look for one that has 20-30 entries.

It’ll be listed under REGDWORD “enableStartupAnimation” and “enableStartupSound”. Default value is “1″ (for enable)… set to “0″ to disable.

DiGi

Comment #2669 from DiGi [Reply]

it is possible to live tv with a specific list of favorites to start?

Anonymous

Comment #2676 from Anonymous [Reply]

MCEKeySender from Ryan’s Findings

Comment Moderated: Nice tool, I’ll check it out but would have been better to send it through the contact form as it’s a bit much for a comment.

ronco

Comment #2705 from ronco [Reply]

So, did anyone have an answer for “Lillgreens” question?
I also control my HTPC media center using only the remote, and it would be great if I could launch Media Center with the green button on the remote and still use these startup switches. Any ideas? Registry hacks would be fine with me.

Anonymous

Comment #3957 from Anonymous [Reply]

To get the no animation and no sound on startup to work from the remote use the reg edit suggestion from above, to speed up finding the entries just use the search function within regedit.exe. Change both values to 0 and you’re done. Confirmed working with windows 7 RTM from MSDN

Michael

Comment #5411 from Michael [Reply]

How do you start specific playlists from the command line, like for Task Scheduler?

jbroyal

Comment #16253 from jbroyal [Reply]

I wish this would work, period. I believe I am following the directions exactly. I’ve tried copy and paste to enter the text, and also tried typing it in exactly. Tried just clicking OK, didn’t work. Tried logging off, didn’t work, tried restarting, didn’t work. Very frustrating.

jbroyal

@Reply #16267 from jbroyal [Reply]

As usual, I figured out what I was doing wrong right after I made my ignorance public. I was editing the file, but still using the shortcut pinned to my taskbar. Oops.

Dave

Comment #30028 from Dave [Reply]

Is there a command line switch to make the video loop?

I have a need to play a video in a public area facility fullscreen, 16:9, looping, so it doesn’t shut down till we kill the task.

Thanks, Dave

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Corey

Comment #59440 from Corey [Reply]

Is there a way to have Media Center tune in a specific channel upon startup?