Improve streaming performance in Media Center with buffering.

As you may (or may not) know, Media Center uses the Windows Media Player as its internal player.  You may also have experienced some less-than-stellar streaming performance out of it if you do a lot of Internet-based playback or have your media library on a network server.  I’m going to help you make a very more »

 
Windows 2008 Server and Event ID 2012 warnings.

This isn’t related to HTPCs so much, but I guess someone out there using a Windows 2008-based server as a file server could be experiencing this issue if the hardware matches up.  Anyway, I’ve been seeing these 2012 events in the event log for some time and they have been causing a lot of grief more »

 
Manage multiple HTPCs with RDP Connection Manager.

I had another good tip dropped on me by Sinjen that I thought should be shared with those of you that have multiple Windows-based HTPCs in your home.  If you use Remote Desktop to access them remotely (or have not yet ventured into that yet), then you may find this tool extremely useful – the more »

 
Improve Vista and Windows 7 network performance.

In some case, you may notice poor network performance in streaming multimedia files to Vista or Windows 7 client systems. Symptoms typically include video choppiness or annoying skips during playback.  Long pauses upon initiating playback of files can also occur.  If you encounter issues such as this, you could simply be a victim of some more »

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