Can you advise whether the only changes listed in your article are required. I notice that in the rar file there is also an XbmcLauncher. So no, you have no reason to do anything with it. You should only need to do what is listed in the install instructions.
Has the launcher worked at all for you? If you double click XbmcLauncher. None of the solutions worked and I was having problems finding a stable solution. I have since moved to a simulated mce keyboard activity within the Harmony set-up and everything has worked OK.
Sorry for the confusion. Everything working as it should at the moment and thanks for your hard work in providing a solution — was starting to tear my hair out trying to get this to work.
Amazing — thank you so much. Thanks for the hack, though I seem to be having some trouble. Any ideas for troubleshooting? I am running XBMC 9. Thanks for the launcher! Any help would be appreciated. Especially if the Boxee installer creates a registry key pointing to where the program is the same was as XBMC. The problem was the same. Works great at my system x64 win7.
I seem to have a problem getting this to work on XP 32bit : whenever I rename, move or erase ehshell. If, during that time I copy your ehshell, the previous ehshell overwrites it. Windows XP? I used to have this issue when trying to replace Notepad. That said, there are a few ways to address this. You could just copy the modified eshell. Thanks for answering. I did the above method and that works indeed. Application has generated an exception that could not be handled.
Did the patch job copied the exe and works. I press windows button and it launches XBMC.. XBMC keeps launching itself. I dont press the button and xbmc is completely shut down…every 10 sec it starts by itself.. If you have a harmony remote, make life easy. Program the Shortcut Hotkey, and map everything over to keyboard commands. Problem solved. Just what I needed. If you press the green button while XBMC is already running, but is either minimized or in windowed mode, it would be really great if it would un-minimize and switch to fullscreen mode.
It could just have a single line e. Yeah, you can absolutely do that. Let me know if you have issues opening this in VC Express. Line 1 tells the program what process name to look for notepad Line 2 is the path to the program to run Line 3 is for any arguments to send to the program. So far it seems the process name is basically the exe file without the. Next up could be some kind of groovy config form to make the cfg file automatically and maybe turn it into squiggly code like the cfg files for cool programs.
Thanks for this little app. You can reduce the installation effort significantly to one step using the Image File Execution Options registry key. Windows has a neat feature that allows you to replace one executable with another for debugging purposes. Alternatively paste the following lines into notepad and save as a.
Reg file, then double click on the file that you just created. This might be useful to package with the XbmcLauncher zip file. It would be fairly trivial to create an installer for the tool that handles all this automatically, or even just adjusts this registry key on first run.
Thanks much. Hopefully this will allow the program to return to the forefront and restore the window to maximized when alt-tabbed away. It should also be much easier to install as it has an installer. Many props. Solves so many problems. I just want to say many thanks. Correct, ehshell. This software is intended as a way override that behavior. There are a number of free tools to do that. Just found this.
Anybody a idea? Thnx a million! It works with XBMC 10 also for whoever is wondering. Just perfect! I was wondering can ALL the functions that are accessible using keyboard and mouse be performed with the remote.
How do I right click in order to change plugin settings etc? All thanks to you! Got it! It was always there! Great program thanks, solved a headache!! The only question that I have is that I use an xbox as extender which I believe uses the ehshell. It very well could be. There are a couple of other executables that control the extender service, extensibility host, etc. CDA workaround. However, even if you apply it, XBMC still has an issue with returning itself to the foreground when relaunched.
The devs could fix this, but as of This launcher runs a few commands to attempt to restore XBMC to the foreground. CDA association is true, you should suggest to the XBMC team to modify their Windows installer to include an option to remap this association along with adding launch code to restore their window to the foreground if it is already open. Hi all, thx a lot for the installer, works fine for me.
But now i have one problem, i have to start MS MCE for one time to disable the automatically optimization, cause this feature starts my pc every night. Can anybody tell me how i can start the ms mce after installing the fix, unfortunately i have no backup of the ehome.
Thx in advance. This seemed to work when I installed it, but now most of the time instead of returning focus to XBMC, it just makes XBMC flash on the taskbar, without becoming responsive to commands from the remote. It still works occasionally, which is strange. Makes it so much easier to just sit down on the couch and press one button and bangggg XBMC is up on my screen for my viewing pleasure!
Hi manually installe the file. Problem is when I press tv on my hp mce remote it starts xbmc. Any idea how to fix? Using xbmc 10 and win 7. Just as followup to above, when I do start ehshell. WMC has been renabled and I placed the backup file for the exe in the home folder underscoring the modified one restarted but it still kicks off XBMC rather than WMC… anyone any ideas, beyond reinstall….
Andrew, there are two ways the launcher could have been installed. Running the uninstaller will remove that. Alternatively, you can go into regedit and remove that key yourself. If you installed manually, which it sounds like you did, then restoring the backup EXE should be all you needed to do. But, check the registry key in case you ever ran the installer. Thank you so much!!! I finally got everything to work right with my harmony one.
You are awesome!!! Thank you fro this great app. Hi again, well did away with all WMC and it entailed. Got XMBC running fin with library artwork etc but re-installed your exe and nothing happens. Green button start on remote launches start me nu… The exe inside the launcher folder inside programs does launch an XBMC when clicked… but Start button no longer does.
Scratch the above… complete plank, did manual install works a treat. This works well to launch xbmc with one press, nut when i try to bring the window back to the front by pressing the windows button again it corrupts xbmc and causes the different sections to move out of position on screen. Hey this works perfect for me, although i did have to add one step.
How do I get this to work with it? If so what do i put in it? Sussed it. This is a fantastic solution. Thanks very much for putting it together. This works great, so excuse me for asking, but how can I get to run Windows media Center 7 now?
Works flawlessly with the installer. Thanks so much for this, I was quite tired of hitting that button by accident and having to struggle to shut down that bloated program. Is it a requirement that Windows Media Center is installed in Windows 7? So, instead of replacing the ehshell. The only problem I have is that if the TV is not my current monitor, i need it to switch to that monitor with the command:. When I click the Green button, it launches but not in portable mode even though -p is in the args-file.
Having never used Visual Studio in any form it was pretty easy. Thanks so much for this! Does just what I was after — although bringing to foreground does seem to work? Thanks for writing this app.
It gets me closer to finishing my XBMC setup. But each subsequent time there is something like a 20 second delay between hitting the button and launching XBMC. But once I install it, it works as described. I also tried installing by hand and double clicking the cloned ehshell also works as expected; no delay. I suspect it has something to do with the way the key press is getting intercepted; is Vista trying to do other stuff with besides just launching ehshell?
XBMC must run in this account so that it can find its settings. Click over to the Startup tab and check the Ensure that the Windows Networking components have started box. Click the Save button. It is not yet running though. Even though you won't see XBMC, all the network-related services media streaming, web interface, etc. That's it! Next time your computer boots, XBMC will start up immediately, before anyone logs on. Log in. Install the app. JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Thread starter JeffD Start date Sep 26, JeffD Well-known Member. The Guides will cover both simple methods for the non-technical person, and more advanced guides for those who want more control and like to tweak Windows directly rather than have software do it for them.
To create this illusion of a dedicated Media device the default Windows Shell needs to be replaced and Windows 7 configured to boot straight to the replacement Shell. The Shell is GUI interface that provides the desktop when logging into Windows, as default this is the Windows Explorer shell which provides such things as the Start menu and the Taskbar.
This Shell can be replaced with any application. To hide Win 7 and give the appearance of a dedicated Media device, the advantages of this are: a. Slightly faster boot time b. Remove Microsoft branding and replace with your own c. Please refer to this Microsoft help page on how to do this Back up your programs system settings-and files 1. In my case I set these both to be Administrator accounts.
Having these 2 User Accounts is just my preference for ease of recovery and maintaining the HTPC, you can however proceed with only the one User configured if you wish.
If you've created any new users ensure that they have permission to access any network shares. Last edited: Jun 12, Part 2 - Running Additional Programs 2. Last edited: May 25, Part 4 - Advanced Guide - Windows Tweaks Introduction If you have followed the Instant Sheller Guide in the previous post then there is no need to carry out any of the following as Instant Sheller has already done it all for you.
The purpose of this Guide is twofold, firstly to show how to make some of the changes done by Installer Sheller directly to Windows without having to run any software. Secondly it is also intended to show people who have run Instant Sheller some of the changes so they can tweak later if they wish, perhaps they might want to undo something without having to undo all changes. Log in as administrator user. Open "Run" and type "mmc" then select "OK".
In the case of a pc with a long boot up time, or just because you what feeback the pc is doing something while booting, then a custom boot animation or static image can be applied.
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