July 22nd, 2009 / No Comments » / by Chris
Recently I’ve found that if i wish for something, it appears the day after on a website. This week I’ve wished for a jumplist menu creator for Win7, a codec switching appliance for WMC7 and then the ability to easily customize the WMC7 menu strips….. and here it is:
Setting up custom start menu strips for Windows 7 Media Center used to be a task that required quite a bit of playing about in the registry. Even using the Hack7MC custom start strip package was fairly cumbersome and required Media Browser to be installed. Now we have a simple wizard which will allow you to create, arrange and delete custom start menu strips with ease.
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Posted in: Media Center, Windows 7
July 15th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Chris
This little utility adds a new context menu (right mouse click on AVI file(s) or on a folder containing AVI files) to Windows®™ and simply movies any AVI file to its own directory/folder.
Lets say you have myfile1.avi, my file2.avi, yourfile3.avi, your_file 4.avi in a folder called movies. After installing the utility, simply right mouse click on the folder and you will see a new option as seen in the images below. Select the "Move AVIs to own folder" option and the utility will create a new sub folder for each AVI file using the name of the file as the folder name. i.e. your_file 4.avi would be moved to \movies\your_file 4\your_file 4.avi from \movies\your_file 4.avi. Alternatively, If you only want to move say three AVI files, you can highlight the files you want to move, and then simply right mouse click on the selected files and select "Move to own folder". The same process happens, each file has a sub folder created using each file name and each file is moved to the respective folder.
Source: www.simplify-i-t.com
Posted in: Media Center, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP
May 20th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Chris
Starting tomorrow, Windows Media Center users who are also Netflix members will gain access to more than 12,000 movies and TV episodes from Netflix directly within Windows Media Center on their PCs.
Using the two together is easy and convenient. In Windows Media Center, a new Netflix tile will appear under “TV + Movies”. To stream movies and TV shows from Netflix, just click on the new Netflix tile and login with your Netflix account.
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Posted in: Media Center, Windows 7, Windows Vista
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