To apply switch over to both Themes tabs and select your theme and hit Apply. Then hit the Save button once more and your theme is completed. Now that the picture was saved, while selected, click the up arrow to set the preview picture as the default thumbnail for your theme. It was included in the high-end version of Windows Vista and Windows 7 but existed as early as Windows XP Media Center Edition. Windows Media Center will load with all your settings loaded. While Media Center is still running, switch back to Media Center Studio and click the new picture camera button.Ĭlick the stop camera button and the preview image will be saved and Media Center closed. On the Biography screen click the play camera button. Navigate back to the Biography section list on the top of the navigation list. One of the last steps is to create a thumbnail shot for your new theme. First, save your progress by clicking Save. You should now see your new image shown. Now select the next item,, and repeat as you did for the last item.Īfter both items are replaced with your new image you are ready to finalize your theme. Select and click Browse.īrowse and select the new background file and then click the Open button. You may need to change the file type drop down box to JPG if your replacement picture is not a PNG file. There are two items under Backgrounds that you will need to replace to change the Windows Media Center background. Navigate through the sections on the left to customize each component. Most users like to change the background image so I’m going to cover that first. Navigate through Images, Common and Backgrounds. Now you will see all of the items that can be customized. It is best to set the name and author sections first.
#MEDIACENTER WINDOWS 7 INSTALL#
The Media Center Studio will allow you toĬustomize all of the colors, fonts and images used in Windows Media Center.įirst, download and install Media Center Studio.Īfter the software is installed and running click the green New button on the ribbon. Utility called Media Center Studio to create and install your own theme.
#MEDIACENTER WINDOWS 7 HOW TO#
To get started I’m going to show you how to use a free Windows 7 Media Center does not include native theme support but that has not stopped a determined group of users armed with resource hackers and custom tools to make customizing Windows Media Center easy.
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