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Windows Media Center Guide Listings Not Updating

Posted by  in Tuesday, February 7th 2017   
Topics: Windows Media Center    
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Recently, both my Windows 7 computers with Media Center on them stopped updating the TV listings correctly. I found out that Windows media Center has a warning system: if you have less than three days of TV listings you will get a pop-up box that tells you that: that’s a good feature. The first thing […]

Windows Media Player Causing CPU to Max at 100%

Posted by  in Sunday, May 3rd 2015   
Topics: Windows Media Center    
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Suddenly my computer was impossibly slow, my recorded shows were stilted and out of sync. I checked task manager and my CPU usage was 100%. The first thing is to evaluate if there is something that has recently changed on the computer, and I had just added a 5 Tb USB WD Elements HD to […]

Windows 7 Jitter – Getting Smooth Audio and Video – Revised – CCCP Works Wonders

Posted by  in Tuesday, May 6th 2014   
Topics: Windows, Windows Media Center    
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A while back I wrote about jitter in Windows where the video doesn’t play smoothly.  At the time I was able to resolve the problem for at least a little while by turning off hardware acceleration. But the fix didn’t last. So here it is a while later and I am having major problems with […]

Windows Media Center – Changing Skip and Replay Intervals

Posted by  in Sunday, September 15th 2013   
Topics: HTPCs, Windows Media Center    
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My good old FIOS DVR let you change the Skip and Replay Intervals in the setup of the DVR.  Windows MCE isn’t that sophisticated.  But it is available to change if you are up to changing the registry. As always, registry editing is done at your own risk.  Changing the wrong value in the registry […]