Start Vista Media Center In Media Only Mode

April 13th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

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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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, and currently runs the Portal and online operations for one of the largest ISPs in the UK.

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    Pingback by Start Vista Media Center In Media-Only Mode | One Tip A Day on 13 April 2008:

    [...] the final post of my Vista Media Center customization weekend, I’ve discovered thanks to Everton a way to open Vista Media Center in Media-Only mode.  This is a great tip if you have kids and you [...]

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    Comment by Zath on 15 April 2008:

    Interesting, I wasn’t aware of that, I shall have to check it out, cheers Everton!

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    Comment by Everton on 15 April 2008:

    @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.

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