How to disable a Media Center add-in

re: How to disable a Media Center add-in

casey chesnut — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 03:09:42 GMT

alternate is to focus its icon in 'More Programs', select 'More Info' or 'right click' on it, then select 'Remove'

re: How to disable a Media Center add-in

mcreasy — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 03:27:40 GMT

Yes, although this will only work for applications in More Programs whereas the above will work for all Media Center applications. I recommend against using the "remove" option in More Programs as it's rather hard to get the item back once you've removed it.

re: How to disable a Media Center add-in

Jason Dunn — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 16:22:39 GMT

Thanks for the link! The app was managed code, not HTML. Unfortunately that error I was getting happened immediately after starting up the MCE GUI, as soon as I clicked up or down. So at the time I wasn't even able to get into the settings panel. :-( But this is good to know for next time! :-)

re: How to disable a Media Center add-in

mcreasy — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 00:41:53 GMT

Jason, there's still a way to disable in that scenario, although it does involve working in the registry. Registration information is stored under HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Media Center\Extensibility and the same location in HKLM. Now comes the hard part, there are three folders, Applications, Categories and Entrypoints. First you need to find the application in the Application folder and note the GUID used. Next find the entry under Categories that you need to disable, the category names are fairly obvious so this should be easy, the folder you need will reference the application guid. Finally take the name of the folder in Categories and find the folder of the same name under Entrypoints and create a string value called "Enabled" with a value of "false". That will disable it.

If the application only registered one entrypoint, you can skip looking through categories and go right to the Entrypoints to find the entrypoint that references the application guid.

Yes, it's complex and yes, we know it could be better.