No thumbnails?

A user emailed saying they were having problems with Media Center not generating thumbnails for their content. Try as we could we couldn’t figure out what was wrong. Fortunately the user found these instructions which resolved the problem:

Go to Start..then..Run,.and type in
REGSVR32 SHMEDIA.DLL
Then press “OK”

Favorites

We added a new feature in Media Center for Vista, called Favorites. Basically, Media Center remembers what channels you spend the most time watching. So say you’re like me and spend a lot of time watching HD channels and you decide to check out your favorite list.

First, pull up the guide:

Next, invoke the context menu on it by pressing More Info on the remote, or CTRL-D on the keyboard, or right clicking with your mouse.

Once you select ‘filtered guide’ on the context menu you’ll see some more options:

Selecting ‘Favorites’ will narrow the guide down to your favorite channels, and for me those are all HD.