Power Up Your Media Center with Plug-ins. Your Windows Media Center can be powered up even more with third party plug-ins, and we've already shared 8 of our favorites (and you shared even more in ...

If you want to stream media from a desktop PC to other devices (as noted for Plex), note that Windows supports DLNA sharing as standard (it’s not part of Windows Media Center, so I hope it won ...

I won’t be upgrading my current media-center PC to Windows 8. And I sure as heck won’t be paying for Windows Media Center, which continues to be a great asset in Windows 7. Let me know how you ...

D-Link’s MediaLounge DSM-750 media-center extender lets you access Windows Media Center from your living room, even when your PC is somewhere else in the house.

While hardware is vital to a media center PC, software merits mention, too. Luckily, between Windows XP and the applications bundled with the ATI All-In-Wonder 9600, most of the software ...

A 'stick' or 'mini PC' running Windows 10 can make a great, inexpensive streaming box. Here are some tips to get you going.

The breakthrough is the Media Center's two different on-screen personalities. When you work on e-mail and spreadsheets, it looks like any other Windows XP machine.

We created a fire-breathing, high-def Media Center PC with over 1.5TB of storage, a screamingly fast Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 processor, a TV tuner, Creative surround-sound card and speakers, a ...

Windows XP Media Center Edition turns a PC into a media center that integrates digital entertainment experiences with the freedom of remote-control access. Consumers can enjoy live television, ...

Without an all-new version of Windows until Longhorn in 2006, Microsoft is hoping that an improved Media Center OS can help reignite interest in the 3-year-old Windows XP operating system.

Windows Media Center (WMC) was designed to organize and store a music, video and photo collection, and content could be viewed and heard on the PC or sent over the network to a stereo or TV.