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 can literally be fatal to your computer, so this is no place to play around, or guess. If you are not sure don’t do it. A good rule of thumb is to set a restore point before any registry editing.
That said and done, open the registry editor (click Start, type “regedit” (without the quotes) and hit enter):
Browse to HKEY_ CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\ Windows\CurrentVersion\Media Center\Settings\VideoSettings
On my Vista laptop it looks like this:
Registry editor open to MCE video settings
I have placed arrows by the settings for InstantReplayInterval and SkipAheadInterval which are 7000 and 29000 (decimal) respectively. These values are in milliseconds and correspond to 7 and 29 seconds.
To change a value double click on it. For example, here is the skip ahead value:
Changing the skip ahead value
Notice that I have selected the Decimal base to see the 29000 value. To change this to a minute I would change this to 60000.
Be safe and happy editing.
