media centre

I am running Windows 7 Rc on a new PC which I built up as a media centre. Whilst I can say it looks great I am experiencing several blue screen crashes per day and sometimes the Pc will freeze and force a reset. This is a new install of windows 7 as previously it got so bad I reformatted and...

Installed W7 RC over Vista 2 weeks ago. Since then, I've been trying to get Media Centre to add my music collection to the music library but have had no luck at all. I can open album folders and play and burn the contents in Media Player but creating a usable library is out of the question. Any...

Installed Windows 7 ultimate on our media centre PC today and have managed to get it working nicely on the PC alone. We have 3 XBOXs which we use as extenders around the house and have worked perfectly under Vista. When I go to add extender, it shows me the box to put my number in but by...

Good afternoon, I am currently using Windows 7 X64. My wife recently purchased me an Xbox 360 Elite for my birthday, but I am having some problems setting it up as a media extender. (to put it mildly) When I go into Windows Media Centre I can immediately see the Xbox with an option to...

Hi, I'm a newly installed Windows 7 user. I've migrated from XP and so am currently finding out about the new features of Win7. Windows Media Centre is one of those features and having used TVersity to stream my media files over the network I thought that I'd try and give WMC a go and see how...

I almost got my HDTV working properly but there are some major bugs! I am in New Zealand and trying to receive our lcal DVB-T service freeview. After updating vista to W7 RC (7100)the tuner cards were discovered fine and all channells found during scan I was really stoked! When I try to use...

Hi, So, loving the RC so far, and the improved media center is awesome! But... it only detects my tv card as a single tuner, despite it being a dual tuner. It's a Leadtek Winfast DVT1000 Leadtek - We make dreams a reality Appreciate any help! Cheers, Sam

I'm running 32 bit on my Samsung NC10, very successfully, so I thought I'd try installing it on a new build E5200-based PC as well, which also runs pretty well. However, the E5200 is a 64-bit capable system, so is there any real benefit in installing the 64 bit version of the RC? Ok, it's...

Hi all, Is it possible to share a file or directory between 2+ libraries? There are at least three scenarios for which I can see this being highly useful -- 1) Flagging files/folders for backup, possibly in quite disparate places. I realise that you can do this from the Backup applet but...

Don't know if anyone can help but I installed the windows 7 beta and now my xbox 360 doesn't fit the media player to the TV size, bizarrely all the other xbox features are the right size so I can only assume it's something to do with the new version of media centre.

hi guys! installed windows 7 without a hitch went very smoothly and everything works so far! my problem is i cant seem to install the mp3 hotfix released by Microsoft to stop the corruption issues in wmp12 and media centre! i upgraded my windows vista ultimate sp1 to windows 7! every time i run...

Question - will Microsoft ever let me choose my music albums via a "Folder" selection, rather than albums, songs, artists and so on? My music folder is very large and very old. I used Foobar 2000 a few months back to search the 'net and apply details and album art to every album. It didn't. The...

Just come across an issue. Most of the time the media pc is running Media Centre, but sometimes when we say, alt-tab out and use Firefox to load something up on Youtube, we'll keep Media Centre minimised because we're using the nice feature that 7 has in rotating desktops. I have close to twenty...

Whenever I think about how Microsoft is trying to present networking in Vista and Windows 7, I get so angry I can't even formulate a proper post asking for help. I mean, what with all this crap about homegroups and public/private networking, having several different ways to go about setting...

My Vista Media Centre has worked fine for about a year, -now suddenly the Windows Media Centre Remote doesn't work the TV. I can see the IR blaster flashing infront of the cable (Virgin) set-top-box, but it doesn't change the channels on the set top box. Somehow it has 'forgotten' the set-top...

Hello, I am using Windows Vista Home Premium and I was wondering if you guys could please help me out. Whenever I watch a film, it seems as though I am able to watch about half of it before the problem occurs, but then it appears and will not go away until Windows Media Centre is closed and...