How to customize the Extras menu of Windows Media Center ?

Learn how to customize menus of Windows Media Center under Windows Vista Home Premium and Windows 7. One option lets you specify that you wish to hide certain elements such as games for example.

Windows Media Center, this famous multimedia interface designed for remote control and display on TV screens as well as for the registration of emissions. Comes with Home Premium editions and Ultimate of Vista, also in the future Windows 7, Windows Media Center is not a highly customizable interface. It has, however, some very useful hidden settings in the maze of menus. Among them, a function allows the contents of the menu "Media Online" menu, which is enriched in terms of software installed on the PC and Internet based services made available by Microsoft and its partners. An option to check what extensions are installed and to indicate, for each of them, whether or not they should be included in the menus of Windows Media Center.

Start Windows Media Center.
Select the Tasks menu.
Select the Settings sub-menu.
Select General.
Select Program Library options.
Click the Edit button in [B]Program Library[/B.
See the list of extensions and features.
Uncheck the programs and functions that you do not want to see.
Click on Save, then click Save in the next screen.
Go to Online Media to see the changes.

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Note: To further personalize the menus of Windows Media Center, you can try a utility called MCE Customizer 3.0.0, still in beta. The software is just in the menu "Media Online" above. It allows to hide some of the main menu of Windows Media Center, to enable or disable certain settings normally hidden, or customize the behavior of the remote.