Windows Vista Media Center is a very good media center, and best of all it’s free. One nice feature within Windows Vista MCE is the media-only mode which gets rid of the windows minimise/close buttons in the top right so that your full screen is dedicated to your media.
Unfortunately there isn’t an option within MCE to enter this mode automatically, but after some digging around yesterday I found a way to enter media-only mode at startup:
- Find your MCE shortcut and right-click and select ‘properties’
- in the target link you should see’
......\ehome\ehshell.exe‘ - Change this to ”
\ehome\ehshell.exe /mediamode‘ and MCE will now start automatically in Media-Only mode
