The TweakMCE power toy has been released as a seperate download from Microsoft. It was originally bundled up with the 2004 Winter pack. This little gadget will be good for Media Center users.
Overview:
“Tweak MCE gives you access to systems settings and options not normally exposed in the Windows XP Media Center Edition user interface, including remote control settings, Skip and Replay time customizations, user interface options, and more. It also helps you to optimize Media Center Extender for plasma and non-CRT displays.
The good news is that I have the Media Center Extender working now. The bad news is that it took a new computer to do it. My wife and I had agreed to update our computer which was about two years old. I’ve upgraded to a P4, 3.20 GHz from Dell (Dimension 8400) with a Gig of RAM. I ordered it with Media Center Edition as the OS. The computer works great, and so does the extender.
Well, I ended up reinstalling the Media Center Edition OS this weekend in hopes that I could figure out why the extender won’t work. For a short time the extender did work, but then I installed the MCE rollup 1 from Microsoft and suddenly Live TV stopped working…..you can’t remove the rollup and I don’t see it being a wise decision to NOT have the rollup installed. So, for now I’m not sure what to do about it.