Vista New util: MC Menu Mender - Page 42

Advent · **26th April 2009, 02:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by kaajee

Aha, ok, thx.
Or create an extra option in Menu Mender to first export (backup) all registry entries which could be changed during the use of Mender. So that the changes Menu Mender has made can be undone. If in the meantime other applications made changes to the same registry settings as well, bad luck. One can go back then to the situation before Menu Mender.

I think this would be more confusing than the current situation - people would lose entry points etc for installed plugins. If you really want to be sure, just create a system restore point before installing MM.

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Originally Posted by kaajee

And am i correct that when dll's are changed, only ehres.dll and ehres.dll.mui are changed?

Correct.

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Originally Posted by kaajee

edit: now that I think about it; when Menu Mender is making changes to the registry it should be able to kind of log them and restore them, or am i thinking to simple?

A bit too simple. I'm not saying it's not possible (and i'm not saying it is either), but I am saying that it's a lot of work and i'd rather spend that time on other things, given the low demand for this feature thus far - this is all done in my spare time, after all.

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Originally Posted by kaajee

In my case; i did not make any changes to the registry myself. All changes for the (non-tv pack) Vista registry were made by Menu Mender only. And when Menu Mender can change/edit registry settings it should be able to restore them as well, or........?

It's not YOU editing the registry that i'm worried about - it's other apps, or VMC itself. If this was a commercial app (or we lived in an ideal world) I'd agree with you, but it's not - it's free, and it comes with no guarantees.

Thanks for the suggestions, anyway!

benthomas · **13th May 2009, 12:58 PM**

Is 0.4.3 the latest Vista x86 compatible version?

Thanks.

kaajee · **13th May 2009, 08:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by benthomas

Is 0.4.3 the latest Vista x86 compatible version?

Thanks.

I thought we were in the Vista Media Center > Plugins & Addons - Vista section of this forum?

saxnix · **13th May 2009, 08:19 PM**

You have a valid point, but then again, benthomas might have been directed to this topic from another topic or forum (or even a Google search), that had a direct link to the topic (possibly half way through the thread. It is quite possible that he didn't notice the naviagation tree at the top - I know I only rarely look at it if I have come to a topic from a search or other place.

Advent · **13th May 2009, 08:20 PM**

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Originally Posted by saxnix

You have a valid point, but then again, benthomas might have been directed to this topic from another topic or forum (or even a Google search), that had a direct link to the topic (possibly half way through the thread. It is quite possible that he didn't notice the naviagation tree at the top - I know I only rarely look at it if I have come to a topic from a search or other place.

At any rate... yes, 0.4.3 is the latest version, and it is x86 Vista compatible.

benthomas · **14th May 2009, 01:38 AM**

Thanks for that. And 'kaajee', I know where I am and I've read most of the pages of this thread, I was actually asking whether it was the latest 32-bit compatible version.

FYI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86

sndlogic · **21st May 2009, 02:47 PM**

Any chance this might help advance things?

Windows Media Center SDK RC1 for Windows 7 / 5.3
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Program...nter-SDK.shtml

Astrotoy7 · **22nd May 2009, 02:05 AM**

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Originally Posted by Advent

Quick update on a Windows 7 version - so far no good. Some apparent behavioural changes in the win32 resource APIs are causing me problems...

I know early adopters are keen for the app but I would postone working on it 'til RTM.. it's simply a waste of time to put work into something that is still being fiddled with under the hood. Give yourself a proper break Advent, you deserve it.

Being a newlywed, I'm sure you would prefer to be working on adding custom strips to your family tree

Astro

Advent · **29th May 2009, 06:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by Astrotoy7

I know early adopters are keen for the app but I would postone working on it 'til RTM.. it's simply a waste of time to put work into something that is still being fiddled with under the hood. Give yourself a proper break Advent, you deserve it.

Being a newlywed, I'm sure you would prefer to be working on adding custom strips to your family tree

Astro

Haha, nice.

I don't have much time to go around, so I've more or less decided to concentrate on getting my theme app working to a good enough point for an alpha release. With any luck it will work on all versions of MC (Vista, TV Pack and 7MC), and include the same menu editing functionality as Menu Mender. So, it will take a bit longer but hopefully the result will be much better!

Java Jack · **5th June 2009, 02:59 AM**

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Originally Posted by Advent

Haha, nice.

I don't have much time to go around, so I've more or less decided to concentrate on getting my theme app working to a good enough point for an alpha release. With any luck it will work on all versions of MC (Vista, TV Pack and 7MC), and include the same menu editing functionality as Menu Mender. So, it will take a bit longer but hopefully the result will be much better!

I have added the link to your Menu Mender application to my Plug In blog (http://links.amd.com/Plugin) as well as to a blog I will be posting tomorrow on Hulu, Netflix and YouTubeXL.

Let me know when your next app is available and I will add that as well.

wolvers · **8th June 2009, 01:44 AM**

Hello everyone in Oz.

I just wanted to say how good this app is. I'll certainly be recommending this to everyone in the UK forums that haven't heard of it.

It works perfectly and has enabled me to make some well deserved changes to my VMC menu.

Well done Advent, you're a legend. I'm off now to make a well deserved donation.

dallasf · **12th June 2009, 04:02 PM**

Hi Everyone,

This is my first post, never really had to use it before. However, i highly rely on mc menu mender and I recently got into changing my media center theme through FX. Something happen along the way and i lost mc menu mender due to an error. I was changing my ehres around and must have made a mistake somewhere.

I have uninstalled everything including FX, mc menu mender and even .net 3.5 sp1.

I still have the same problem.

I even did a system restore from windows to get back to my original state but still the same error.

Please someone help or let me know how I coul contact the developer. ahhh

p.s error is attached.

Thanks.