Spruce up your Windows Media Center TV guide with My Channel Logos XL - evansthathe

My Channel Logos Forty enhances your Windows Media Central program guide in many cool shipway.

Disdain Microsoft's interminable attempts to press my exuberance, I continue to be a fan of Windows Media Center. At the least, I'm trying to be: It's not included with Windows 8. I'd literally have to spend $100 to get it as start of Microsoft's In favou Pack. (Windows 8 Pro users can buy WMC for $9.99, a slap in the present to the rest of America.)

Thankfully, I still play Windows 7 on my tuner-equipped media-center PC, and therefore still get to enjoy the benefits of the software.

Especially the add-ons. WMC is nothing if non customizable, and unitary of my all-time-favorite additions is My Channel Logos. The modish version, My Channel Logos 40, is the foremost one yet.

True to its name, My Conduct Logos adds TV-network logos to the program guide in Windows Media Centrist. That may non sound like a big deal, but it really enhances the look of the guide, spell at the comparable time making your favorite channels easier to spot at a glance.

The refreshing Twoscore version brings a few nifty updates to the hold over, including the option of fashioning the Logos 25 pct wider. The developer also improved their visual quality, while at the same time letting you reduce the wasted "white space" or so them.

I especially like the new guide-sizing features. For example, with one ticking of a check-box you can swop to a three-minute watch (meaning the guide shows three hours' worth of listings as an alternative of the usual two).

You tin can also add more rows to the guide—anywhere from seven to 12. MCL accomplishes this without changing the baptistry size, instead merely leverage all that extra empty space that's usually just about the guide.

Ensure for yourself: In the accompanying screenshot, I've got 10 rows and a tercet-minute view. Nothing is lost; much is gained. I am so crazy this.

To get My Channel Word XL, you'll need to donate either $5 operating theater $10 via PayPal. If you're a hard-core Windows Media Center exploiter, that's a middling damage for such a air-conditioned accessory.

Contributing Editor program Rick Broida writes about business and consumer technology. Invite help with your PC hassles at hasslefree@pcworld.com, or try the hold dear trove of helpful folks in the Microcomputer World-wide Community Forums. Mark up to have the Hassle-Free PC newsletter e-mailed to you hebdomadally.

Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/452276/spruce-up-your-windows-media-center-tv-guide-with-my-channel-logos-xl.html

Posted by: evansthathe.blogspot.com