Registering an Application Under the Start Menu Category

This is a useful skill to have, even though it is a bit technical. I just used it to add MyMovies back to the main menu after it fell off somehow.

Read below, once you surf through the registry and see where the settings are it is much easier to see what to do. To get the GUID of an existing program, look under the Application section within the Media Center tree, it is the name of the key under there (the names of the apps are inside the key, as "Title"). Just take that GUID and make a key with the same name under start menu, then add Title, AppID, TimeStamp, and Url and you are good to go.

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TVitty - bittorrent TV shows from within MCE

TVitty sounds like a winner... if you haven't used an RSS feed with a bittorrent client to get TV shows, you are really missing out on something extremely useful in the media world that will be bigger and bigger. This allows you to manage all of that from within MCE. Does not work with XP MCE though :(

Frequently Asked Questions: "tvitty is an add-in for Microsoft Windows Vista Media Center (TM) designed for your tv & remote. it lets you find download and watch videos distributed over the internet, right from your couch. tvitty currently supports bittorrent networks, and we're planning to add progressive download and streaming support. we use tvitty to distribute our own ad-supported content in certain regions, and promote free legal content worldwide.
tvitty runs on Microsoft Windows Vista editions that ship with Media Center ('Home Premium' and 'Ultimate')"