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[ricktendo]

Windows 7 Media Center v1.0 (English)
Info: This addon you place after the Media Center for XP addon in the nLite addon order and what it does is update ehres.dll and other files that have been modded to look like the Windows Media Center from Vista (also includes Vista fonts)
Note: Make sure you have the latest Media Center addon, use a MD5 tool to check or re-download it.
HUGE!!! Thanks to: bober, fediafedia and AMIRZ for their work...thanks guys

May 13, 2009

http://adf.ly/1713566/mce07en

MD5: 4a956899a87fc1951b9a7e32d5b0888c
Size: 6.66 MB
Website: http://ricktendo64.d...-2008-106010573

Changelog:

v1.0
- Renamed Windows 7 Media Center
- New startup sound and a couple PNG's (very minor changes)
- Updated for compatibility with the new Media Center addon
v2.3
- Removed sn.exe (thanks to bober)
- No longer requires Microsoft Runtime Libraries addon
- Minor tweaks to ehres.dll
v2.2
- Initial English version release
- Re-Added 256x256 icons to ehres.dll
v2.1
- Minor changes to mcdftreg.inf to reflect change in the Media Center addon
v2.0
- More files modded (ehdrop.dll, ehRec.exe, ehRecvr.exe, ehSched.exe, ehshell.exe, ehui.dll, RegisterMCEApp.exe) including the taskbar icon (this is thanks to AMIRZ)
- All references to Media Center have been changed to say Windows Media Center including shortcuts (same as Vista)
- Added darker NOW PLAYING background (this is thanks to fediafedia)
- Added a couple more aero glass stuff replacing some ugly green ones
- And many other improvements and changes (so many I cant name them) to ehres.dll

[bober]

focking nice, gonna have to try it right away, gonna skip the VM and test it straight.thx

[ricktendo]

If you use XPTSP after this it may change ehres.dll, the one here is a bit more updated

BTW for those who dont want to do a complete reformat you can:
- Extract the addon and rename all the "same name" files in the ehome dir example ehres.dll to ehres.dll.bak, eshell.exe to eshell.exe.bak, etc.
- Then after you have backed up and replaced all the files you have to do this so the modded ehshell.exe can work (this is thanks to AMIRZ) place sn.exe in system32 or the same ehome dir, open a cmd window and run

sn -Vr ehshell.exe

then

sn -Vr RegisterMCEApp.exe

- Install Vista MCE fonts (segmcr.ttf, segmcsb.ttf and segoemcl.ttf)
- Optionally you may also want to rename all your "Media Center" shortcuts to "Windows Media Center" and somehow refresh you icon cache to get the new Vista icons

[bober]

well ill add it to xptsp.


edit: holy crap man i just checked the dll and man.. youve added alot of stuff,niceee

Edited by bober, 24 January 2009 - 02:58 AM.

[ricktendo]

I can pass you the new ehres.dll.res but I did mod a couple more ehome other stuff to change all "Media Center" strings to "Windows Media Center" and the ehres.dll.res will kinda look ugly if the new Vista MCE font is not installed...this reminds me I forgot to add the fonts install step to the instructions above
Also if one plans on modding ehshell.exe you need to use the strong name utility to make it work

[CODYQX4]

Any chance to use it after a MCE addon integration?

[ricktendo]

Yes after you already integrated it is ok add this one in another session

Edit: Just make sure you also integrate/d the MS Runtimes or the modded ehshell.exe will not get registered with sn.exe

[CODYQX4]

Mabye I should make a Vista Tablet PC addon if I get time...

[George King]

Rick, can you update ehelp images into vista skin? I think you can edit all *.htm files for using PNG transparency images...

EDIT: Can you create also BATCH installer for installed MCE?

Edited by George King, 24 January 2009 - 01:43 PM.

[ricktendo]

I suck at image editing, if somebody updates the gifs vista style I would gladly add them

The bat I will see

[George King]

Rick, do you know, how create ehres.dll, which will work with mui folders (cs-cz, sk-sk ect...) from vista ehome folder?

[ricktendo]

I never figured out how to use the MUI files with the DLL's, IDK if it requires a reg entry or what...thats why I reshacked the mui stuff directly into the dll

And if you do figure it out the media center will not be vista'ized anymore, you will need to edit the mui files with the vista style

[Mr_Smartepants]

Rick, dumb question here:
Should XPtsp be applied to source before/after integrating this addon with nlite?
It's the order of things I need to know.

Edited by Mr_Smartepants, 25 January 2009 - 08:14 AM.

[George King]

Rick, can you create this addon in my language? If i post you czech files which you need?

[ricktendo]

Rick, dumb question here:
Should XPtsp be applied to source before/after integrating this addon with nlite?
It's the order of things I need to know.

Well XPTSP will overwrite my ehres.dll with a older mod, so here is the updated ehres.dll.res that you can add it to xptsp and all it will do is re-apply the same mod as is in the addon (meaning it will change nothing)
If you can find a way to tell xptsp to skip the ehome patching it would be better, will save you time

BTW I do not recomend you guys add this ehres.dll.res permanently into XPTSP because it requires a new Vista MCE font be integrated into XP, also patching ehshell.exe & registermceapp.exe is not a good idea either because they require sn.exe be integrated and run

Rick, can you create this addon in my language? If i post you czech files which you need?

IDK, too much work on my plate

[ricktendo]

v2.3
- Removed sn.exe (thanks to bober)
- No longer requires Microsoft Runtime Libraries addon
- Minor tweaks to ehres.dll

As requested I made a INF (not BAT) that will install this on a already installed system, you dl and put it in the extracted addon folder then right click it and chose install
Important: do this in Safe Mode to be sure it replaces the files, otherwise wpf will screw you

http://www.mediafire.com/?n44mmjwxypl

[George King]

Hey, i want to change Media Center to Windows Media Center into Settings page. Where i can change it?

[ricktendo]

Please be more specific, post a screenshot of what you want to change

[George King]

Please be more specific, post a screenshot of what you want to change

I want change Media Center to Windows Media Center...

[bober]

hey rick any big changes to the res ?