There are a number of other media center solutions that provide the ability to have a different background for each area of media. Movies, Music and TV all come with various different backgrounds to represent their different content. Now, thanks to bill24 of the Australian Media Center Community, Windows 7 Media Center users can as well. The end result [...]
Today we’ve got a special surprise set of downloads available. First, the popular Brokeh theme has been updated with a modified background to make reading text on the screen slightly easier. The theme has also been converted into a Media Center Studio theme package. This should make it much easier to install for everyone. Finally, we’ve got four additional [...]
Let’s face it, after a while Windows 7 Media Center’s background image can become rather dull. Luckily, sprucing it up isn’t exactly rocket science. We can use Media Center Studio to quickly and easily change the default background to one of our choosing. All we need is Media Center Studio and a high resolution image from someplace like interfacelift.com. [...]
A new program we’ve all been waiting for quite some time to get our hands on, Media Center Studio, has finally arrived allowing even the most novice users the ability to create their own custom Media Center themes and Start Menu arrangements. Media Center Studio, created by Advent of the Australian Media Center Community the author of Media Center [...]
Adding colorful channel logos to the default Windows 7 Media Center guide has quickly become one of those features many users can no longer live without. Using the My Channel Logos program to add colorful channel logos to your guide listings is simple enough for even the most novice users and provides wonderful results. For users in the United [...]
If you’ve ever bought an OEM computer from a company like Dell, Gateway or HP you’ll know they love to brand every piece of software that comes preinstalled with their own logo. If you’d like to get rid of this logo on your Windows 7 Media Center software or maybe add some personal branding of your own then we’ve [...]
If you’ve participated in the Windows 7 program for some time now you may have noticed in more recent versions that the animated waterfall album art background that is displayed while playing music has slowed down considerably. Almost to a “glacial rate” as one user put it. This was done to accommodate lower performance PCs that were having trouble [...]
It’s been available for a little over a week now on Theme7MC and pictured in quite a few of the guides recently here on Hack7MC but I though we would do a short feature to highlight the new Midnight Magic theme for Windows 7 Media Center.
Featuring stock artwork from FractalAngel of DeviantArt the background provides an excellent contrast between [...]
With the final release of Windows 7 coming ever closer we are stating to see a number of very nice tools being released gear toward the new platform. For Media Center users some of the most useful programs being developed are in the area of codec support. With Windows Media Foundation and the new pipeline used in Media Center [...]
You may have noticed recently the inclusion of a link to the newest offering from Hack7MC, Theme7MC.com, in the sidebar. This new area has been created to fill a growing gap in the creation and distribution of downloadable Media Center theme content provided on Hack7mc. In addition, this new site provides a central location where users can also submit [...]
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 [...]
We have covered the Black Theme by Astrotoy7 before but since then the theme has been refined and polished even further. Some of the glow effects have been removed, the “curtain” animation has been taken off the start menu and several other areas have been shored up. This theme definitely is a minimalist’s dream brought to the Media Center [...]
What better way to celebrate Earth Month and Hack7MC’s new house warming than with a new Media Center theme? Featuring shots from the excellent background files of the same name from Deviant Art member vhm-alex. This theme features the two whales seen in vhm-alex’s works prominently in each of Media Center’s sections. Check out a few screenshots then download [...]
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 [...]
In order to increase the readability of certain screens in Media Center I’m releasing a patch to modify background used with the Road to Nowhere theme. This background adds a dark stripe to increase the contrast between the light text and the light areas of the background.
This background will effect a number of areas in Media Center including the [...]
