Anonymous

Comment #10080 from Anonymous [Reply]

This completely broke my Media Centre. As soon as I start it up now it says “Media Centre has stopped working”…any idea how I can fix it?

Michael Healy

@Reply #10086 from Michael Healy [Reply]

Had you ever edited the ehres.dll before? Might be a problem with Media Center Studio, idk.

Mark

Comment #10082 from Mark [Reply]

Ahh nevermind the “restore default” option fixed it…and now the themes work too. Weird

NizZ8

Comment #10088 from NizZ8 [Reply]

cool post! i’ll have to mess with the 7MC themes again. Right now i’m using the basic black one which is pretty slick but some of the ones in the post look pretty neat as well!

Matt_00814826557766765881

Comment #10090 from Matt_00814826557766765881 [Reply]

Good timing; just this morning I was checking out the Brokeh theme and saw it wasn’t updated with a background that was faded to make it easier to read text. I really wanted to try the theme, and now I can!

Thanks to everyone involved to make this happen, it’s much appreciated.

KairuByte

Comment #10099 from KairuByte [Reply]

Is it just me or does the Brokeh theme not show a background on extenders? I have tried all the others and they work fine, but Brokeh’s background disappears after the “Welcome” screen, and is left just black.

baffo

@Reply #10132 from baffo [Reply]

I can see the Brokeh theme on my Xbox360 media center. Thanks Mike.

Satwar

@Reply #15158 from Satwar [Reply]

I have the same problem with Linksys extender, pity cause I like it best. All the other themes work fine, so it must be fixable.

Chris

Comment #10102 from Chris [Reply]

Scholars and gentlemen! Now that we have a common format, it’s a heck of a lot easier to share without worry Submissions coming!

Alex Stevens

Comment #10136 from Alex Stevens [Reply]

Its weird seeing these themes again; it seems like it was ages ago that we were tinkering around with the ehres file. – The good times of the release candidate

So what can we expect from this ‘fold in’ mike?

Michael Healy

@Reply #10140 from Michael Healy [Reply]

The theme site will look the same as Hack7MC and say hack7mc at the top but hopefully I can find a good way to manage listings and user uploads. I haven’t gotten all the details worked out quite yet.

Chris

Comment #10167 from Chris [Reply]

Just to those with issues:

Before you switch themes, make sure you have NO extenders running or on, and that you do not have media center running. Then apply and be OK.

To be safe, check your task manager to make sure you don’t see anything like: ehres.exe (user: extender auto)

Those all need to be stopped/not running to apply, otherwise weird things can happen

Joey

Comment #10202 from Joey [Reply]

Why is it called “Brokeh” and not “Bokeh?”

Michael Healy

@Reply #10205 from Michael Healy [Reply]

typo, we’re just gonna roll with it.

Jim R.

Comment #10224 from Jim R. [Reply]

I am unable to import these themes.

According to your instructions, I download the file and then open Media Center Studio and click on Theme tab –> Import. When I do I am provided with a dialogue box that allows me to import a *.mct file, *.vmctheme file or an ehres.dll file. The files themselves are Zip files. If I extract them, I can see the contents, but there are no *.mct, *.vmctheme files in there.

Apologies, as I look at the comments, it looks like this is my problem, but I would appreciate some help in importing the themes.

I am running Windows 7 x64 MC

Jim R.

@Reply #10225 from Jim R. [Reply]

Ok, I figured it out. I downloaded the large 250MB file, and opened it. I noticed that all of the files in there were named .mct, after looking at the .zip files it occured to me, that the single files must be renamed from .zip to .mct. I did that, and viola! it worked like a charm.

Thanks for making MC even better!

Omar Little

Comment #10264 from Omar Little [Reply]

I can import the theme no problem but every time I apply them the program crashes.

It starts with the “Preparing…” bar then I get the error message box “Media Center Studio has stopped working”

Any idea how to get this to work?

RHurst

Comment #10458 from RHurst [Reply]

How can I tweak the posted themes? I’d like to be able to change the fonts colors, but either I can’t find the right ones, or I’m not saving them.

Also, why are all posted themes so dark? I’d love to see somebody post a really cool theme for a bright room. Some of us have the tv/extender on the rec room, or even outdoors by the pool, and there they simply didn’t work. I used to use WMC high contrast white in these situations, so you’ll understand how the above won’t work.

MrMakeEmAkRight

Comment #10484 from MrMakeEmAkRight [Reply]

Does anyone know where I can get the around the mountains theme? I had it but had to reinstall windows now I cant find it anywhere

Benjamin

Comment #10562 from Benjamin [Reply]

So Imay be a little slow here, but Ihave Media Center Studio. I downloaded the theme pack and it is in a .ZIP folder. I unzipped the folder. I then started Media Center Studio and when I go to import a them I see the folders but there are no .MCT files there…. what am i doing wrong??

Benjamin

@Reply #10563 from Benjamin [Reply]

Ok, so i figured it out… if you download an individual theme you are just given all the .png files. BUT if download the theme PACK you and the .mct files.. my bad!

Michael Healy

@Reply #10630 from Michael Healy [Reply]

The single themes should be downloading as .mct files, not to be opened in an archive program. They should just need loaded into MC Studio.

Benjamin

Comment #10565 from Benjamin [Reply]

I would have to say… these themes are nice! They are a good break from the classic blue…. BUT they just lack the flare of a finished product. When you use them, you loose the smooth animation for the original theme. Also, you loose some of the features like enabling your slide shows to PAN AND ZOOM… When they put finishing touches on some of the themes they would be worth paying for!!

Michael Healy

@Reply #10629 from Michael Healy [Reply]

You shouldn’t be losing any options after installing these themes, they are simply image replacements. You may experience a somewhat less “smooth” experience depending on hardware as these do use much higher resolution images than the original blue theme.

MarcM

Comment #10575 from MarcM [Reply]

Where can I find the logo downloads for the for My Channel Logos?

All I want is the UK Freeview and Freesat colour logos

GEOSHION

Comment #10651 from GEOSHION [Reply]

I‘m Chinese。I love your themes。But there is not “ehres.dll”file at“c:\windows\ehome\”。WHy？

Michael Healy

@Reply #10689 from Michael Healy [Reply]

I’m not certain why that would be the case unfortunately. The ehome directory does exist but the ehres.dll file doesn’t?

Michael

Comment #10745 from Michael [Reply]

No matter how hard I try, Media Center Studio will not load and I get the following:

Description:
Stopped working

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: CLR20r3
Problem Signature 01: media center studio.exe
Problem Signature 02: 0.0.6.5
Problem Signature 03: 4ae41e5e
Problem Signature 04: PresentationFramework
Problem Signature 05: 3.0.0.0
Problem Signature 06: 4a174fbc
Problem Signature 07: 624f
Problem Signature 08: e1
Problem Signature 09: System.Windows.Markup.XamlParse
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.48
Locale ID: 1033

I have .net framework 3.5 and 4.0 installed so not entirely sure what the issue is. I wish I could find a copy of the beta release as the on-click stuff just isn’t cutting it.

Michael Healy

@Reply #10783 from Michael Healy [Reply]

I’ll see about posting all the old content to Hack7MC soon, likely in the Download Center section.

Dave

Comment #10785 from Dave [Reply]

When i apply any of the themes everything seems to work fine except for listening to music. After about 15 minutes the album artwork stops rendering properly and mc almost completely freezes. Any ideas what the problem can be. (8gig ram 2.5 dual core ati hd4350 videocard) My hardware should be able to handle the extra resolution from the themes right?

Alex

Comment #10874 from Alex [Reply]

like your application, very creative~it’ll be better to add a ‘unistall’ shortcut to start menu

Anonymous

Comment #11043 from Anonymous [Reply]

What if I want to go back to the default Win7 theme? How does one get the default back?

Michael Healy

@Reply #11053 from Michael Healy [Reply]

There should be a restore default option at the top of Media Center Studio near the options to apply the themes.

drew

Comment #11086 from drew [Reply]

im just using windows 7 home basic, from the installing process i can’t find the ehres.dll file on the ehome folder. im wondering what’s the problem.

Hambone

@Reply #13016 from Hambone [Reply]

Win7 Home basic doesnt have a Media Center. I’m guessing this might be a small issue since you are trying to MODIFY THE MEDIA CENTER that doesnt exist?

LMAO!

ShafiahShaban

Comment #12158 from ShafiahShaban [Reply]

Is there any way we can get the individual background images? I’ld like to use the same backround as my desktop image and backdrop for xbmc. It would give the whole system some nice cohesion.

Thank you for your great work on this site. I visit almost daily.

Michael Healy

@Reply #12167 from Michael Healy [Reply]

You can open the MCT file with a zip archive program and retrieve the background from Resources/ehres/Images/Common.Background.png