media center

I'm trying to set up a dual monitor pc to run wmc on a tv. But cannot get wmc to output audio to any other device apart from the default. Is there anyway to run wmc sound to the tv and all other sound to the pc speakers?

how can i watch recorded tv from media center on a tv in another room? i have a hauppauge 1800 tv card and a nvidia 9600gt video card ? any help would be greatly appreciated maybe a link or 2

Hi folks, I have a relative who is running Windows XP Media Center on a Dell Dimension 5100. In my opinion MCE is somewhat "quirky." He expressed interest in upgrading to Windows 7. How well would Windows 7 run on this machine? From what I understand it doesn't run all that bad on older...

I have never burned a DVD before and was wondering how to do it. I tried using Windows DVD Maker, but when I went to add the video files it said that they were not the correct format. It said that it was not a supported file type and could not be imported. Then I tried to burn the DVD using...

i ran across the COOLEST picture (slide show) thing about a week ago, and...for the Life of me I can't find it again ! I know Windows Media Center has a actual slide show that will go through all the pictures in your pictures file... but, this one was different. It had all the pictures in...

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JUST received my NEW laptop (Dell-studio) with Windows 7, and CANNOT open Windows Media Center, also getting explorer.exe error when trying to shut down computer. sounds, CDs aren't working (obviously, as I can't get wmp to respond to anything. I have to constantly hit cntrl+alt+delete to...

Ok I have 3 Pc's running Win 7 Premium. A laptop, a gaming pc and a media center pc. I have gone through each computer and shared my documents so i can move around video files/pictures/music to any pc from any pc, but for some reason I can't do it between all of the pc's. I can see the...

Hi, I'm running an HP dv7-1428CA notebook with with Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. My notebook came with a remote control that can control Windows Media Center, but since I've upgraded from Vista, the green button no longer opens Media Center. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Hi, I have a WD 1TB external drive, and I keep all of my media on that drive (movies, pics, music). I have set all of my libraries to point to the folders on the drive where I keep all my media, however, Windows Media Player will not load anything, and when click on organize, manage libraries...

Version: ¤ Windows 7 Professional (x86) - DVD (English) I got it for free from my college. It seems to not want to work. (Clean install) When I try launching "Setup.exe" by extracting the ISO, I get the following error: So I figure...

so I am trying to configure my media center for my tv card... but I have no IR for my set top box (i dont need one anyway so wtf) and it will not let me proceed any further. is there a way around that? the tv card program itself doesnt give me the smoothest pic or stream. I ran it through vista...

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Hi all, New to the forums but not to Windows. I just recently built a new system as an upgrade from HP Elite m9340f Media Center PC. I bought a new Mobo, Video Card and PSU. I used the HDD, RAM, CPU, DVD, and TV Tuner card from the HP in the new build. My current specs: Gigabyte...

I have upgraded from Vista Ultimate to Windows 7 Ultimate and Media Center is not working correctly. I suspect the problem is that I had installed some add-ins to MC in Vista and they may be preventing the Win7 version from working correctly. For example the advertised NetFlix option in MC is...

Hi I just started useing Win 7 and had my nwe PC all set up and working the way I wanted and then a friend asked if Win 7 had the media center and I checked and it did so I started it and messed around for a few min and then quit. Now I don't have 5.1 anymore, just the frount 2 speekers. All of...

I have Windows 7 Home Premium Version. I am fairly certain that this version comes with Windows Media Center. However I absolutely can not find it. It isn't listed under All Programs and searching for it returns no results. I really don't have a clue what's going on. Perhaps someone here can...

I have 3 HP Media Center computers that are all networked. One XP desktop, one Win 7 Home Premium laptop that was upgraded from Vista, and one brand new laptop with Win 7 factory installed. I use them often to record TV shows and want to be able to use each computer to watch shows recorded on...

Link Removed Boxee is a media center application for Mac, Linux and Windows that gives your PC a more TV-like interface for interacting with music, movies and pictures. Of course, that's what Apple Front Row, Windows Media Center, and Linux apps like MythTV do as well, but Boxee has a heavy...

Hi Searched all around...none of the solutions offered fixes my problem. Hope you can help. After entering the 8 digit code on my Windows 7 Ultimate PC in the extender setup, I get the "Configuration Error" "An error was encountered while configuring your computer for use with this Extender."...