7955 Media Center

win8demon

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Hi all, my first post here.

Just thought i'd share images of my customized Windows 8 Media Center. The application that did the guide, guide logos, and artwork is yet to be released, was designed for Windows 7 and has now been updated for Windows 8. :ninja:

Hope that's got you guessing.

Here's the images.

mce1.png

mce2.png

mce3.png

mce4.png

mce5.png


And a quick snapshot of the application.

loader.png

I'll be looking for testers.

Cheers
 
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My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 7 Ultimate / Windows 8 7955
Looks like the Media centre in Windows 7 :) Apart from slight changes

Josh
 

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    Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit ; Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard
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    R.A.T 7 Gaming Mouse
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    Google Chrome
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    Optiarc DVD RW AD-5260S ATA Device
Yes , theres not much difference visually.

As Advent's MC Studio doesn't work with Windows 8, i thought i'd share some themes for media center.

These i previously posted on the Green Button for Windows 7, now updated for Windows 8.

Downloads and instructions below.

Windows 8 7955 Only

Screenshots.

Batman Theme

batman.png

batman2.png


James Bond Theme

bond.png

bond2.png


Midnight Theatre

7MC1.png

7MC6.png


Sunset Theatre

7MC12.png


Instructions:

Download the files and extract.

First open the extracted folder TakeOwnership and run the reg InstallTakeOwnership, this will add TakeOwnership to the right click context menu.

Close Media Center.

Now go to C:\Windows\ehome and right click ehres.dll and Microsoft.MediaCenter.Shell.dll and TakeOwnership.

Change extension on ehres.dll to .old and the same for Microsoft.MediaCenter.shell.dll.

Next select the theme you want to use and copy both files in the selected theme folder to C:\Windows\ehome.

That's it, now open Media Center.

Downloads

TakeOwnership
http://ac-stealth.co.uk/TakeOwnership.zip

Batman
http://ac-stealth.co.uk/batman.zip

James Bond
http://ac-stealth.co.uk/007.zip

Midnight Theatre
http://ac-stealth.co.uk/Midnight.zip

Sunset Theatre
http://ac-stealth.co.uk/Sunset.zip

Comments welcome enjoy. :grin:
 
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My Computer

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  • OS
    Windows 7 Ultimate / Windows 8 7955
Thanks for sharing :)
 

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    Some wired stuff
You are a verry talented person, will try the midnight theme.
 

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    Windows 8.1 Pro w/ WMC x64
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Yay for Art Attack! :D
 

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