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  • Clear your Extender's media library

    I recently added a Windows Home Server to my home network and moved all of my media to it.  Because of that, I had to reset both of my Vista Media Center Extenders' media libraries to get them pointed to the shares on my WHS. I documented the process here: How to reset your Vista Media Center Extender media library Feel free to comment or ...
    Posted to Windows Media Center Tips (Forum) by brad77 on July 10, 2008
  • Turn off DEP (Data Execution Prevention)

    Great tip from Tony Campbells book reproduced here  http://vista.beyondthemanual.com/2006/11/vista_tip_turn_off_data_execut.html Data Execution Prevention (DEP) is a security feature introduced in Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and now in Windows Vista, that looks for malicious code trying to execute. If DEP's analysis of a process ...
    Posted to Windows Media Center Tips (Forum) by test7875 on March 8, 2007
  • Videos on Network Share Drives

    I've had no end of trouble with the new Library database under Vista when it comes to, well, everything actually... but specifically when dealing with Videos I have stored on my Network drive and on another computer - especially when using an Xbox 360 as an extender. Well the steps I've used to make this work well are detailed in my post at my ...
    Posted to Windows Media Center Tips (Forum) by scrytch on February 18, 2007
  • Re: Play list

    Great tip! I have a load of Power Rangers clips I play for the kids, this will make it nice and easy for me
    Posted to Windows Media Center Tips (Forum) by Ian Dixon on February 13, 2007
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