Media Center Quick Tip – Disabling Channels in your Guide
It's easier than you might think to remove individual channels from your Media Center guide. No settings screens required!
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Media Center Quick Tip – View Your iCloud Photo Stream in Media Center...
It's a little known fact that Windows users can enjoy the benefits of Apple's Photo Stream and iCloud. In this quick tip, we'll show you how to add Photo Stream to your Windows Media Center experience.
read moreTweak Everything in Windows 8
If your New Year's resolution is to whip your home theater PC into shape, you're going to love this tip. This old easter egg gives Windows 8 users easy access to all settings in one folder.
read moreConfiguring Comskip with DvrmsToolBox for Windows Media Center
Now that Comskip has released a beta with WTV support it's time to put it through its paces. Learn how to configure the new Comskip beta with Windows Media Center and DvrmsToolBox.
read moreRemap Green Button as Start Button on Remote
Using Windows 8 as a home theater PC is difficult if your remote control can't easily return you to the Metro-style Windows 8 Start screen. Here we show you how to easily remap a Windows Media Center remote control's Green Button to work as a Windows Start button.
read moreUse Windows 8 on Your iPad or Android Tablet
Splashtop's Win8 Metro Testbed app lets you remotely access Windows 8 from your iPad or Android tablet. But just how bad do you want this? Start digging in your pockets now, because at $24.99, this may just be the most expensive app you'll have on your tablet.
read moreRipping DVDs for Windows Media Center
We’ve been through, what seems like, about 497 million different options for ripping a DVD collection for use in a home theater PC. DVDs are one form of media that we thought this community had really started to move away from as Blu-ray and streaming media has really taken off over the...
read moreAdd Windows Media Center to Window 8 Release Preview
Microsoft's Windows 8 Consumer Preview doesn't include Media Center, but these instructions will show you how to install it.
read moreMedia Center Quick Tip – Using Your HTPC as a Play To Target
Media Center does not support the Play To functionality of Windows Media Player for some reason. While not perfect, you can ease the lack of integration by launching Windows Media Player in the background upon login. To do so you need to write a little three line script and drop it into a certain directory.
read moreMedia Center Quick Tip – Finding Protected Recorded TV Files
This Windows Media Center Quick Tip shows you how to easily find out which of your Recorded TV shows are copy-protected.
read moreMedia Center Quick Tip – Syncing Windows Phone Camera Roll to Media Ce...
Use SkyDrive on your Media Center PC to view photographs that are automatically uploaded from your Windows Phone.
read moreUsing a TiVo Slide Remote with Windows Media Center
Wouldn't the TiVo sliding keyboard remote be great if you could use it with Windows Media Center? Well now you can have all of that keyboard goodness and still use the best DVR on the planet: Windows Media Center. Let us show you step-by-step how to configure this keyboard + remote with Media Center.
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