Vista Media Center XBOX360

[zerolimit]

I dont know if any of you know that you can change the b/g on your vista media center on your 360? I liked the style they have but there had to be something new. So I went online and figured out a way to change it here is what I got so far....

NOTE: In order to do this you need to take control of ehres.dll here is how you do it....

1. Click the Start button.

2. Click All Programs.

3. Go into Accessories.

4. Right-click on Command Prompt

5. Select Run as administrator.

6. When the UAC Prompt appears, click Continue.

Once you have your elevated command prompt, follow these steps:

For our example, we are going to use the Bubbles screensaver file (Bubbles.scr)

1. At the command prompt, input takeown /f filepath (takeown /f c:\windows\system32\Bubbles.scr).

2. Press Enter on the keyboard.

3. A message will be displayed that this completed successfully.

4. Now input icacls filepath /grant yourusername:f (icacls c:\windows\system32\Bubbles.scr /grant shamanstears:f).

5. A message will be displayed that this completed successfully.

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All I did was change the Background....

http://rapidshare.com/files/56045692/ehres.dll.html

Here is a all black one! I use Personally

ehres.dll

[mattrobs]

Impressive.

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

Nice, that looks so good in black. Might give this a try later :)

[zerolimit]

Thanks! didn't know if anyone still used Media Center on the 360

[IceBreakerG]

That looks pretty damn good. I think it looks better with that black background than the blue one. I'm not really quite sure how you set the background for media center though since you used a Bubbles screensaver file in the example.

[x-scratch]

wow thats very cool i only have 2 probs 1 i dont have windows media player & i dont have a router

[zerolimit]

hehe sucks!

[DigitalE]

There is a program coming out soon called MediaCenterFX that does this and more, only it's a lot easier :)

[zerolimit]

yeah....

http://www.mediacenterthemes.com/ <---thats the site but its been down for a couple of weeks now...

I also found this... http://www.pcoverhaulers.com/ ... but that is dead too! Anyone else know?

[spenser.d]

Now if only I had Vista. I do have XP MCE 2005 and I use it with my 360 a lot.

-Spenser

[Morpheus Phreak]

Any chance of a Vista 64 version of that background?

[zerolimit]

I think it works for both dude!

[Morpheus Phreak]

I think it works for both dude!

Not on my Vista Ultimate 64-bit it doesn't :(

Everything just stayed blue, on both the PC and on the XBox.

[Morpheus Phreak]

Not on my Vista Ultimate 64-bit it doesn't :(

Everything just stayed blue, on both the PC and on the XBox.

err, nevermind. It did work. I had just downloaded the wrong one from his post.

[zerolimit]

Hey guys I found this nice little thing to organise your DVD/HD Movies Collection! on Media Center I love it personally...

http://www.mymovies.name/

[dnast]

^ That's a pretty sweet app. At first I was trying to figure out how to get Transcode 360 to work with it (I don't want to re-rip anything), but this app has built-in transcoding! Nice find. :)

[zerolimit]

How does the built in transcoding work?

[TogaForComfort]

It works with Transcode 360.

Via my movies you have two play options, Watch the movie or stream. Selecting stream will make Transcode 360 transcode and stream an unsupported format to the 360.

It just removes the need to go into the more menu and select transcode.

My Movies is an awesom plug-in. Version 3 will be built with Vista in mind, so there will be nice transitions and it will work faster when the library is large.

I was using this setup for a while, but now have a dedicated HTPC, so formats are not an issue and I can rip my dvd's directly to the drive without having to convert them to MPEG, which is a pain for foreign language films. I didn't realize you can change the background i'll have to give this a go

[Morpheus Phreak]

Hey guys I found this nice little thing to organise your DVD/HD Movies Collection! on Media Center I love it personally...

http://www.mymovies.name/

Hmm, it looks like their website is dead for now :(

[dnast]

It works with Transcode 360.

Via my movies you have two play options, Watch the movie or stream. Selecting stream will make Transcode 360 transcode and stream an unsupported format to the 360.

Ah, I didn't realize that that's how it worked. Thanks for the explanation.

Hmm, it looks like their website is dead for now :(

You can just get the installation file from Download.com. That's where their website points you to, anyway.

[zerolimit]

site is back up! Ok well i got home after work yesterday and figure out a way to change the background to fit your media center theme! Go to the root directory of the installment and go in the vista folder now the there is 2 background images. Get the background image you want and make sure is a .png and replace with new ones and your done! Easy isn't it?

[Morpheus Phreak]

Ah, I didn't realize that that's how it worked. Thanks for the explanation.

You can just get the installation file from Download.com. That's where their website points you to, anyway.

Yeah and now that the site is back up I see they don't support Vista x64 so no go for me at this time :(

[zerolimit]

sorry dude! its great! good luck!

sorry dude! its great! good luck!

[HawkMan]

Does myMovies work in Vista now then ?

I thought they wheren't going to make it work in Vista, untill version 3.

[zerolimit]

Yes it works with vista. http://www.mediacenterthemes.com is up also! some nice themes on there!