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The green button sends alt-Windows then Enter, and Windows traps this keystroke and uses it to start Media Center. I don't know of any way to intercept the keystroke. I'm sure there will be some devious registry hack to do it, but no-one has found it yet.
Anyhow, if you have the official Microsoft remote then you can reconfigure the green button to send, for example, ctrl-shift-X and then set ctrl-shift-X as the keyboard shortcut for the XBMC Start Menu icon. I use this trick myself and it works fine. Press the green button and XBMC starts :-) The cheap clone remotes usually can't be reconfigured.
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Anyo,
Another option is to disable Windows Media Center completely if you never use it.
Easiest way to do that is to simply rename c:\windows\ehome to something different, like ehome.blah - you could also disable all the services associated with it if you still wanted to use it, but thats up to you.
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I too would like to get this working.
I've totally remove Windows media centre.
pressing the green button does nothing now, i've tried the zip file above, but nothing happens, how do i get it to start XBMC when i press the green button ?
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iBROX
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Ignore my post above, worked it out.
Set XBMC to start with CTRL-SHIFT-X in the start menu and installed the XBMC remote reg
Works a treat!
Thanks
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What is the XBMC remote reg?
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Is there a way to do something similar with the following setup?
Official Microsoft remote IR reciever
Harmony 880 programmed as a Microsoft MCE Keyboard
No IR software running (no eventghost, IR Server Suite, nada)
I havent been able to find a way to program the harmony to have a button send ctrl+shift+x - It can macro ctrl-then-shift-then-x but that obviously does no good.
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2010-01-05, 02:27
(This post was last modified: 2010-01-05, 02:41 by iBROX.)
Thanks for this as I said i've got it working.
Now i need the following.
I have Powerdvd loading as an external player when i play a bluray disk.
At the moment when i press stop on the remote it stops the playback, but how do i get it to close powerdvd and return to XBMC via the remote?
Thanks
Edit: One other thing, is it possible that when you press the INFO button on the remote, it actually does what 'o' does in XBMC and shows all the file codec and runtime information ??