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Old 03-04-2007   #3 (permalink)
Rick Bywater


 
 

Re: What are the default Vista programs...? Is not a default folder

Dean-Dean

'Splains all. Thanks.

Rick

"Dean-Dean" <DeanDean@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:370290D7-ABAA-4A15-81B4-60196FF3203A@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> The folder
>
> Start > All Programs > Accessories > Media Center > Media Center Programs
>
> was probably created by the Sandra Lite installation. It doesn't exist on
> Vista by default (the folder was used, however, for XP MCE). The
> installer
> should have put the file (probably a shortctut to an *.mcl file) in
>
> C:\Users\(YOUR USER NAME)\AppData\Roaming\Media Center Programs
>
> An *.mcl file has an icon like Media Center's, and allows programs to
> opened
> within Media Center. It will show up in Media Center's Program Library
> (under Online Media) if the shortcut is placed in C:\Users\(YOUR USER
> NAME)\AppData\Roaming\Media Center Programs.
>
> "Rick Bywater" wrote:
>
>> I just noticed that in "Start > All Programs > Accessories > Media Center
>> >

>> Media Center Programs"
>> I have a shortcut to SiSoftware's Sandra Lite XI.SP1 (that I installed
>> last
>> week). It's weird because the icon for that start menu entry has the
>> green
>> circle windows icon that one sees for Media Center. Sandra Lite does
>> have
>> its own rightful place in my start menu in an SiSoftware folder, so
>> that's
>> not a problem. I'm afraid I may have lost some other start menu entries
>> in
>> the "Media Center Programs"
>> folder.
>>
>> Would someone running Vista Home Premium please click through
>> "Start > All Programs > Accessories > Media Center > Media Center
>> Programs"
>> and tell me what program(s) they see that were placed there by default
>> during the Vista installation/upgrade?
>>
>> Thanks a lot.
>>
>> Rick
>>
>>


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