Media Center Quick Tip – Disabling Channels in your Guide

May 1, 2013 by

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...

Feb 8, 2013 by

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.

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Tweak Everything in Windows 8

Jan 1, 2013 by

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.

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Configuring Comskip with DvrmsToolBox for Windows Media Center

Sep 16, 2012 by

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.

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Remap Green Button as Start Button on Remote

Jul 25, 2012 by

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.

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Use Windows 8 on Your iPad or Android Tablet

Jul 15, 2012 by

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.

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Ripping DVDs for Windows Media Center

Jul 3, 2012 by

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...

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Add Windows Media Center to Window 8 Release Preview

Jun 1, 2012 by

Microsoft's Windows 8 Consumer Preview doesn't include Media Center, but these instructions will show you how to install it.

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Media Center Quick Tip – Using Your HTPC as a Play To Target

May 25, 2012 by

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.

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Media Center Quick Tip – Finding Protected Recorded TV Files

May 12, 2012 by

This Windows Media Center Quick Tip shows you how to easily find out which of your Recorded TV shows are copy-protected.

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Media Center Quick Tip – Syncing Windows Phone Camera Roll to Media Ce...

Apr 28, 2012 by

Use SkyDrive on your Media Center PC to view photographs that are automatically uploaded from your Windows Phone.

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Using a TiVo Slide Remote with Windows Media Center

Apr 27, 2012 by

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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