media center

I have two computers. Dell Inspiron 560 (new this year) running Windows 7 64 bit and HP Slimline Media Center running Windows 7 32 bit (2007 model, i clean installed Win 7 on it). I ripped all my CDs to WAV on the Dell. I am using Homegroup. Installing Windows 7 on the HP was a nightmare...

I'm hoping someone from Redmond sees this message and will open a defect ticket. This needs to be addressed promptly. Brand new HP 600q TouchSmart system running Windows 7 64-bit. Everything works normally until Windows Media Center is started, especially when it is started in maximized...

Hi, I have a USB TV Tuner which works fine to watch TV in WMC. However, when a programme is set to record, and my laptop goes into sleep mode, I believe it turns off the USB TV Tuner, and therefore the programme doesn't record. WMC support center says that the program is able to record...

I have Windows 7 Ultimate with CPU 2.80GHz, RAM 1 GB Hard Disk 160 GB Few months earlier I used to run Windows Media Centre smoothly without any disturbance an d Media player. however these days, these programs are running awfully slow. I am not so expert at computing but I haven't upgraded or...

I am running Windows 7 on a new computer with no TV tuner. I am unable to see Internet TV or Netflix in Windows Media Center. When I try the automatic download (Download Now) option, I get an error message that the Guide cannot be downloaded. After looking at these message boards, I have...

How can I add cover and description to avi file, to see it in WMC? I tried the following: movie1.avi (the movie) movie1.jpg or movie1.avi.jpg (cover) but it doesn't worked. I tried the description add to avi with abcAVI Tag Editor, and... it doesn't worked :frown: I found this: movie1.avi...

We didn't think much of Haier's mention in Microsoft's Windows 7 Media Center embedded press release, but on the show floor today we ran across this HDTV which was actually a full-blown Media Center including tuners and a harddrive. The details were very skimpy beyond that, with no mention of...

Hi I have Windows Vista and when I click colored hotkeys keys windows media center popsup. I would like instead for winamp to pop up. My laptop is now Asus N50VN series. My last laptops motherboard got fried twice

Is there any way that I can get my WMP visualizations to work in Media Center? I have the SoundSpectrum collection (G-Force, Aeon et cetra) and love 'em. On my XP MCE they all worked fine, but in Windows 7 Media Center, I seem to be just stuck with the default ones. I am running the 64x version...

On opening windows media centre, it now freezes and I lose the mouse operation. The screensaver still works anmd I can reboot via ctr alt del. This has just started happening. I have tried system restor, removing and re-installing media centre and have now re-installed Win 7 in upgrade mode, all...

I've installed and re-installed the XBOX 360 Media Center Extender to many times to count. Each time I install it the thing fails - absolutely will not connect with my Xbox. The _only_ way I can get it to work is to disable the Windows Firewall. Probably not the ideal thing to do. Is there a...

Hello everyone. Here is a simple tutorial made to fix sync issues in Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center. It affects both programs and works amazing. Perfect sync for all HD type videos: .m2ts, .ts, .mkv, 1080p, 1080i, 720p, everything. The default decoder plain out messes up in...

Folks, Few weeks back, the mobo on my HP xw8200 blew up. Nothing else was wrong, but when ordering the "new" mobo for it, I also got more correct RAM and two 3.6GHz Xeon CPUs. Got the guts back into the pc and fired it up. I almost cried when I saw the Windows 7 logo appear. AWESOME!!! Now...

Hi Guys, Im new to the forum, but was wondering if someone would be able to assist me. I bought a hp dv6 laptop a couple of days ago running windows7 home premium. Unfortunately i am unable to instal reporting services 2005 on anything below the proffessional edition. My question is, if i...

:(I am unable to display picture in the Media Center. Yes, they are .jpgi I have seen where in XP they have revised the registry. Does this need to be done in Windows 7? I am using Infraview and understand this might have created the problem.

I've got 1 windows 7 media center box (32 bit), my laptop (win 7 64 bit), my girlfriends laptop (Win 7 64 bit), and an xbox 360. The media center box used to be XP I upgraded to windows 7 and all was well. I was able to connect to and stream movies from the media center to the xbox. I was...

I have been using Windows 7 for almost a year now and am quite happy with it. There is one thing that is puzzling me. When I load Windows Media Centre 12 there are hundreds of files in the pictures. These appear to be all from the web or icons from various programs. At the last count there are...

30 sec advance issue I know this is question has been asked before but I'm still unable to fix the problem. I'm unable to fix the 30 sec advance and 7 sec skip backwards function in wmc7. For me the problem arose when win7 went from beta 7077 to rc 7100. I have the white wmc remote with...

QUESTION: I’m using the “slide show” feature in Windows 7, but I can’t make it display the photos in the same order they are stored in a file folder. Instead, the photos are apparently displayed in random order. What can I do? – Vic Erdmann, Minneapolis ANSWER: Normally, the Windows Media...

Hello everyone I am new to this forum and I want to share some issues I encounter during my Windows 7 64bit experience on my ASUS laptop. When I try to start Windows Media Center it always crashes however I can hear its sound but it displays a message saying Windows Media Center stopped working...