By installing the Media Control Plugin for Vista Media Center by Damien Bain-Thouverez, you can finally play back video files with subtitles, especially files using the Matroska container format (MKV). Multiple subtitles support, multiple audio streams support, FFDShow settings tweaking, and much much more is enabled. The plugin can even hook on to the remote [...]
To be able to access administrative shares and shut it down remotely, I added another user to my media center computer (HTPC) matching my usual username and password. Upon next boot, I discovered that instead of being logged on automatically, I was now presented with a logon screen, where I had to choose between the [...]
Even if your Windows 7 or Vista user account is a member of the Administrators group, you are still asked to give applications permission to access your system in different ways. To enable the hidden Administrator account – and free of these hassles – simply follow these directions: In the search field of the Start [...]
When you have more than one computer in your local network, you may want to be able to access all your files on all your machines, whichever one you’re sitting at. Here’s how you can accomplish that in Windows: To be able to access all files you will be using something called Administrative Shares. These [...]