A couple of years ago I purchased a gateway gm5407e desktop.
It came with Vista (horrible OS) and of course Media Center was bundled.
I haven't needed or used the (Media Center) remote since purchase.
However I now dropped cable and am using the atsc tuner card with my antenna, the remote would come in handy except it doesn't control anything. I can tell it's working because when I press any button a little red light goes on on the (included) USB remote receiver.
There seems to be no setting in Media Center to activate it.
And the drivers seem intact and are reported as up to date.
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