Many Windows 7 Media Center enthusiasts have forgone the built-in Movie Library for something a little more sophisticated and feature packed. Plugins such as Media Browser and Open Media Library can provide a much more evolved move browsing experience than the native Movie Library. The problem is that, although these packages typically install a basic start menu strip of [...]
For quite some time we’ve been looking for a way to build our custom start menu strips using a few of the built-in functions included in the default Media Center strips. Being able to create a Movie strip using Media Browser or Open Media Library and still keep the Play DVD tile has been a long requested feature for [...]
Don’t let the name fool you, recent versions of Vista4Cast have added support for Windows 7 Media Center allowing you to get the local weather at a glance. For those looking for an extremely easy way to check the weather from inside Media Center or in need of replacing an old favorite that no longer works in RTM, Vista4Cast [...]
Setting up custom start menu strips for Windows 7 Media Center used to be a task that required quite a bit of playing about in the registry. Even using the Hack7MC custom start strip package was fairly cumbersome and required Media Browser to be installed. Now we have a simple wizard which will allow you to create, arrange and [...]
We’ve all seen the notices Media Center throws up from time to time asking us to disable applications that aren’t responding or are unable to start. What happens when we disable an application we didn’t mean to or maybe a family member does it without knowing quite what was going on. Let’s take a look at enabling and disabling [...]
The recently released Media Browser 2.1 was quite an ambitious release but with such a large number of new features you’re bound to introduce a number of bugs as well. Coming less than a week since version 2.1 became available version 2.1.1 is a bug fix update.
Though there are still a number of outstanding bugs here’s a short list [...]
Hack7MC’s custom Media Browser start menu strip is one of the most downloaded items we’ve made available. Suspiciously the extras package isn’t quite so popular. Perhaps your favorite plug-in wasn’t included? Anyway, now available for download is a slightly updated package. This new package still requires you to have the Custom Media Browser strip installed.
Here’s a quick run down [...]
At one point or another many of us have put a substantial amount of time into organizing our digital music collections. We’re likely to have organized the file structure by genre, artist, album, etc. While the native music library provides a single level of sorting, allowing you to choose to sort by artist or genre, it doesn’t provide a [...]
Up until now, forcing Media Center to display only the start menu strips you actually wanted was quite the ordeal. You needed to edit registry settings and apply patches to force the strips off and on. Thankfully, there’s a new program available from Mikinhosoft that takes the work out of working with start menu strips.
This handy little app gives [...]
Media Browser is easily one of the most popular video and movie collection managers for Windows 7 Media Center users, with good reason. The interface it provides is stunning and the number of extra “little” features available amount to a heap of Media Center loving. Out of the box, Media Browser is great but that doesn’t mean that we [...]
If you’ve already installed the custom Media Browser movie strip using our downloadable package from this recent article there’s a good chance you’re interested in adding a few more entries to that strip. Lucky for you, we’ve got a package here with some extra registry files to add a few of the most popular streaming TV plug-ins to the [...]
Looking for a way to dazzle your relatives with a slideshow of photos from your last vacation set to the music of Jimmy Buffet? Maybe you just want quicker access to a few of your best playlists and a visualization loaded up. Either way the creators of PowerPlaylist2 have got you covered. Allowing you to set up to five [...]
Want to use the guide to Replacing the Default Movie Menu Strip with Media Browser on your extender? Thanks to one of our readers, Amolenk, we now have a tip to remove the default Movie Strip on your Media Center Extender! After following the instructions below continue on to the original guide to complete the process.
Run Regedit and select [...]
The newest version of Media Browser includes it’s own custom start menu strip! Get the start strip extras pack and read about the update here!
Currently, there is no way to replace the native movie library in the Movies start menu strip. Also, Windows 7 Media Center doesn’t allow for the addition of extra plug-ins to the default strips. What [...]
Remove an entire strip with this simple program! Want to Add New Menu Strips? Check out this guide to Adding Start Menu Strips!
Using some of the same techniques as in this previous article on removing entire strips from Windows 7 Media Center, we can remove individual items from any strip. This is a somewhat difficult hack to employ and [...]
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Try this Mikinhosoft Program which makes removing entire start menu strips even easier!
So you read the guide on Adding New Start Menu Strips and now you want to remove that Movies strip and replace it with a Media Browser strip. Maybe you just aren’t that into sports and want to get rid of the Sports strip. Either way, there’s a [...]
