Tweaking Registry for Windows Media Center
Windows Media Center is an application aimed at the Home segment and catering various entertainment facilities as Television, Radio, Streaming Video and so on. It made its first appearance with Windows XP Media Center Edition. Business houses are unlikely to purchase this edition as it’s name only suggests that it is unsuitable for business purposes. But what about “Windows Vista Ultimate”, it too includes Windows Media Center though this is not apparent from its name.
You got it and now want to disable it? Then move ahead as you can do that with a simple registry tweak.
Open Regedit and browse through to the key as below (or create if doesnot exist)
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwarePoliciesMicrosoftWindowsMediaCenter
Create a DWORD valuename MediaCenter and set its value to 1 (numeral one). This will not allow Windows Media Center to run for the current user. To regain the original settings either set it to 0 (numeral zero) or delete it.
If you want to implement this setting across all users accessing the particular system then use the key as below instead of the one mentioned above.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwarePoliciesMicrosoftWindowsMediaCenter
statutory warning : Tweaking registry in irresposible Manner can damage your system settings and can stop your operating system to function properly or stop the functioning. Perform tweaking only if you are sure of what you are doing
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