Start Vista Media Center In Media Only Mode

Everton | Apr 13, 2008 | Comments


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:

  1. Find your MCE shortcut and right-click and select ‘properties’
  2. in the target link you should see’......\ehome\ehshell.exe‘
  3. Change this to ”\ehome\ehshell.exe /mediamode‘ and MCE will now start automatically in Media-Only mode

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About the Author: Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University.He also writes for Windows 7 News, Windows 8 News and One Tip A Day.

  • Victor
    Fantastic tip... sorry, how can I be back to my PC usual entry if now I can´t see it, but just the Media ?????
    When I minimise the MCE, I can see only a black screen !!!
    Please,  let us know a.s.a.p. !

    Thanks !

    Victor


    Victor
  • @Zath

    VMC seems to be getting as much attention as XBMC in terms of addons now - have you seen Yougle? Allows you to watch Youtube videos. will be doing my plug of this later this evening.
  • Interesting, I wasn't aware of that, I shall have to check it out, cheers Everton!
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