Windows Media Center can help you find them. What happens to them? They all end up in folders, on a partition of your hard drive and most of the times you can’t remember where they were. To explain things better, I will start by briefly describing a typical scenario: you take 200 photos on a weekend trip, you download all of your favorite music and videos and you collect huge numbers of mp3 files. Paste the Windows Media Center shortcut.Why one should use Windows Media Center? The answer is simple: because Music, Pictures and Videos are more than just files! Go up one folder level, and then go into the Startup folder (C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp). Now, you’ll notice that you’re in the C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Accessories folder. Copy the shortcut for Windows Media Center. In the app bar, at the bottom of the screen, click on the option “Open file location.” That will open a File Explorer window right to the Windows Accessories folder. We know what you’re thinking, “but the Start Menu doesn’t exist anymore!” While the Start Menu may be gone, its folder structure remains! Go to your Start screen and right-click on Windows Media Center. The easiest way we’ve found to do it is to create a shortcut for Media Center, and place it in the Startup folder of the “Start Menu”. Microsoft hasn’t brought back the option within Windows Media Center to automatically launch, so you’ll need to set it up on your own. This process takes a little more effort, but it’s still very simple. Step 2 – Launch Windows Media Center on Boot That’s it! Your PC will now boot straight to the desktop. From there all you need to do is click the unnecessarily verbose option “When I sign in or close all apps on a screen, go to the desktop instead of Start.” Click the OK button to close the dialog. In the Taskbar and Navigation properties dialog that appears go to the Navigation tab. First, go to the desktop, then right-click on the task bar and click Properties. Step 1 – Boot to Desktopįorcing Windows 8.1 to boot to the desktop is actually really simple, but it’s not easy to find the option.
However, that second problem has been solved with Windows 8.1, and the first one is fairly simple to work around. It would only boot to the new Start screen. The other problem was that with Windows 8 it would not boot to the desktop, where Windows Media Center runs. The first was that Microsoft removed the options for starting Windows Media Center when the system boots. There were a couple of aspects of Windows 8 that seemed to doom it as an operating system for home theater PCs.
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