Start Vista Media Center In Media Only Mode
Everton | Apr 13, 2008 | Comments 3
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
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Interesting, I wasn’t aware of that, I shall have to check it out, cheers Everton!
@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.
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