Review of MyTV Ever Since Microsoft introduced Vista Media Center (VMC). I have always wanted to build my own media center with the best software I can find. I have spent many months trying to find a TV database. One day I managed to find a link somewhere in Greenbutton that sound promising, and clicked on the link. Load and behold, after month of ...

Remember the beta Windows Media Center gadget for Windows Sideshw that released back in July? (see the review on the gadget blog) well Microsoft have put out a Release Candidate of the gadget and It looks like it now supports Extenders. The updated version is on Microsoft Connect and the final version will be on the Microsoft gadget site. A word ...

Hi all, I wanted to see if anyone had any good ideas on how to fix an issue I am having.  I have a Windows Vista Ultimate machine and a XBox 360.  My machine had to be blown away and have Vista reinstalled so I could get SP1 installed on the machine.  After the reinstall of Vista and the install of SP1, my network performance ...

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 ...

Back at CES Microsoft where showing off the Origami Experience 2.0 for UMPCs. This is add on application for UMPCs that is designed for touch and the 7 inch screen. 2.0 looks like a complete re-write of the original software and has features like touch enabled RSS reader and browser, weather apps, picture password application and new media player. ...

ATI have finally released a new firmware for the TV Wonder Digital Cable Tuner aka OCUR box, this is the OCUR box which is pretty much shipping with all OCUR media center setup's right now, including the XPS420. Note the firmware update is only for 32bit Vista  The firmware update specifically deals with the following issues: Multiple ...

  One of the comments that commonly appears in posts about my VMCD utility is "How do i get X decoder to show up in your utility" For decoders that are XP Media Center compatible this has been explained in this ...

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Hello, Not sure about the right subject but I throw my question in here. Just go invited to the Live Mesh service and got the client piece installed and now I get the message ''Failed to start Live Mesh'' in the ballon from the Mesh tray icon. Anyone else seen this and been able to get it to start or connect or what ever it might be hindering it ...

Ed Bott talks a lot of sense and this is another article he has written that I agree with. Ed has written about a couple of problems that have blighted Windows and particularly Windows Vista and namely Crapware and bad drivers. He gives two examples where crapware and drivers problems where reducing the Vista experience on a pair of Sony Viao to ...