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So after listening to the latest podcast I heard several of the crew in the last section (about family-friendly HTPC) talk about editing the menus in 7MC. I never messed about much with Media Center Studio, partly because I was never to clear on 1) how it really worked except for loading preconfigured themes; and 2) the hacks/patches/edits/etc that needed to be applied to make configuration changes somewhat resistant to Msoft updates. So...any advice on how to do things like this? One thing I would like to do is use MediaBrowser to partition some of the movie content for the boys versus me and my better half, but since the native movie library is well, right there under movies, I could never sell them clicking through MediaBrowser strip, then enter MediaBrowser, etc.
Anyways, that's one option I was looking into. Any others customize their menus and want to share?
Best,
NitDawg
. I tried the Start Menu Plus, but was never really sure how to do anything with that one...although I thought I tried another app from you that sort of did it all, maybe I was just dreaming...
I use MCS. I've never used it to theme WMC because I like the standard theme myself. I do utilize the tool for modifying the menus. It should be pretty straightforward when you use MCS for modifying the menu. One thing that you have to do to make the change is open up Windows Explorer and navigate to the following hidden folder: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\eHome\Packages\MCEClientUX
In that directory, you will find one or more directories with the prefix dSM. Underneath any directory with that prefix, a file named StartResources.dll exists. Rename the file to StartResources.bak and create a blank text file named StartResources.dll. Rename the file under all dSM directories.
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