74 replies to this topic

[ricktendo]

Yea I recall you hosted sharks and/or boooggys stuff thanks for the kind offer...for now I will mirror it on RS

[stsaerox]

I'd really like to keep the original executable quadrangle icon that Xp media center has. Can I make that by using simply resource hacker or it will break during unattended installation of windows?

[ricktendo]

HMM no if you are referring to the start orb it will be skewed, you also have to edit a xml...if its ehshell.exe icon in the taskbar you can delete my ehshell.exe and it wont overwrite the default one

If I were you and I liked the default stuff I would not use this addon

[stsaerox]

I like the new look but not the new ehshell.exe icon on the taskbar. The old is perfect for me. Thank you.

[Ken@fri]

Hi Ricks !

I made a french version of your XP_to_MCE05 addon (available >>>here<<<) & it works fine.

But when I do the same with your Windows 7 Media Center v1.0 addon, it's failed. Even after following all steps as decribed below:

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

same results :

eshell.exe - Strong name validation failed.

The strong name validation failed for 'C:\WINDOWS\ehome\ehshell.exe' assembly.

eshell.exe - Common Language Runtime Debugging Services

Process id=0x818 (2072). Thread id=0x830 (2096)

Can you also send me the INF file you made that will install this on a already installed system?

Thanx.

Edited by Ken@fri, 02 March 2011 - 12:41 PM.

[ricktendo]

There are no INf files to install on a live system

[Ken@fri]

There are no INf files to install on a live system

OK. Thanx

Any ideas about strong name validation problem ?

[ricktendo]

Make sure the registry entries are present after running the command (or you can add it manually)

;Strong Name Verification
HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\StrongName\Verification\ehshell,31BF3856AD364E35",,0x10
HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\StrongName\Verification\RegisterMCEApp,31BF3856AD364E35",,0x10

[Ken@fri]

Make sure the registry entries are present after running the command (or you can add it manually)

;Strong Name Verification
HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\StrongName\Verification\ehshell,31BF3856AD364E35",,0x10
HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\StrongName\Verification\RegisterMCEApp,31BF3856AD364E35",,0x10

Checked, and these reg entries are present.

[ricktendo]

The registration of the MCE probably did not complete for some reason, you have to integrate .net 1.1 sp1 and have it install during svcpack

[dougiefresh]

Rick, I hate to ask a stupid question, but your first post indicates that the add-on works with nLite but makes no mention of RyanVM Integrator. Any chance it'll work with RVMi? Thanks in advance!

[ricktendo]

Nope not compatible, you can look at the entries.ini and do the updating of the cab's and inf's manually into your mce addon that is compatible with rvm

[dougiefresh]

Nope not compatible, you can look at the entries.ini and do the updating of the cab's and inf's manually into your mce addon that is compatible with rvm

Okay, will do! Thanks!

[Ken@fri]

Rick, I hate to ask a stupid question, but your first post indicates that the add-on works with nLite but makes no mention of RyanVM Integrator. Any chance it'll work with RVMi? Thanks in advance!

Nope not compatible, you can look at the entries.ini and do the updating of the cab's and inf's manually into your mce addon that is compatible with rvm

I found how to make it compatible with RVMi :

1) Extract addon

2) create a new dir and named it MEDIACTR

3) Drag all addon files & drop them in MEDIACTR dir (except Entries_Windows_7_Media_Center.ini file)

4) Edit Entries_Windows_7_Media_Center.ini like this

;=================================================
; Vista Media Center addon by ricktendo64 |
; Special Thanks to: bober, fediafedia and AMIRZ |
;=================================================
[general]
builddate=2011/10/27
description=Vista/Windows 7 Resources for XP Media Center 2005.
forcelang=English
language=English
ServicePack=SP2
title=Windows 7 Media Center
version=1.1
website=http://www.ricktendo.com/
Windows=XP

[ExtraFileEdits]
MEDCTROC.INF|HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts","%segoe_media_center_semibold%",,"segmcsb.ttf"|HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts","%segoe_media_center_semibold%",,"segmcsb.ttf"<NEXT>HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts","%segoe_media_center_light%",,"segoemcl.ttf"<NEXT>;Strong Name Verification<NEXT>HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\StrongName\Verification\ehshell,31BF3856AD364E35",,0x10<NEXT>HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\StrongName\Verification\RegisterMCEApp,31BF3856AD364E35",,0x10|1
MEDCTROC.INF|segoe_media_center_semibold = "Segoe Media Center Semibold (TrueType)"|segoe_media_center_semibold = "Segoe Media Center Semibold (TrueType)"<NEXT>segoe_media_center_light = "Segoe Media Center Light (TrueType)"|1
MEDCTROC.INF|eHome_DESC = "Media Center"|eHome_DESC = "Windows Media Center"|1
MEDCTROC.INF|ShortcutDesc = "Media Center"|ShortcutDesc = "Windows Media Center"|1

[EditFile]
I386\MEDCTROC.INF,SourceDisksFiles,AddFontDisk
I386\MEDCTROC.INF,eHome_Font,AddFontCopy

[AddFontDisk]
segoemcl.ttf = 1

[AddFontCopy]
segoemcl.ttf

[ExpandCab]
CMPNENTS\MEDIACTR\I386\MEDIACTR.CAB,CMPNENTS\MEDIACTR\I386\MEDIACTR

[DirMove]
MEDIACTR,..\CMPNENTS\MEDIACTR\I386\MEDIACTR

[CreateCab]
CMPNENTS\MEDIACTR\I386\MEDIACTR,CMPNENTS\MEDIACTR\I386\MEDIACTR.CAB

;[UpdateCabs]
;CMPNENTS\MEDIACTR\I386\MEDIACTR.CAB, MEDIAFiles

;[MEDIAFiles]
;ehdrop.dll
;ehRec.exe
;ehRecvr.exe
;ehres.dll
;ehSched.exe
;ehshell.exe
;ehui.dll
;mcdftreg.inf
;RegisterMCEApp.exe
;segmcr.ttf
;segmcsb.ttf
;segoemcl.ttf

5) Select MEDIACTR dir + Entries_Windows_7_Media_Center.ini : compress them (with 7zip, WinRAR...) and name the new archive as you want (i.e Ricks_Win7MediaCenter1.1_en.7z)



IMPORTANT : Please use it AFTER you have integrated/slipped any updatepack/servicepack and Ricks_XP_to_MCE05addon_en.7z. A lot of files are replaced by these addon: it will overwrite the original ones located in CMPNENTS\MEDIACTR\I386\MEDIACTR.CAB... So use it last!.




Voilà !

[dougiefresh]

Thanks for the information!