The following is a guest article written by forum member Dan “Nomad” Muzenjak. Thank you, Dan, for sharing your hard work with us.
Purpose:
This article is a culmination of the work of many on this and other web sites. The sole purpose is to clearly define and outline the steps necessary to modify your HP [...]
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We receive numerous posts in the Forums relating to Remote Access and Firewall Settings for Windows Home Server, often due to the UPnP features in Routers not being of a consistent standard. We’ve been encouraging users to post details of their experiences with different Routers. So if you haven’t updated this post and your Router [...]
Up until maybe a year ago I had never done anything more then replace the RAM out of a computer. Within the last year I have built two HTPCs and one Windows Home Server, and I have had the itch to build another PC. I decided this time around I would build a mini-itx HTPC [...]
Yesterday I reported on the availability of the 3.0 Patch 2 software we discovered on the HP web site, and gave instructions on how to install it. Since performing the initial install I’ve spent some more time with my EX495 running the update and have encountered a couple of issues.
The first was a problem [...]
I was doing my usual morning read of some blogs I follow when I came across a post over at Multimedia-PCs that I thought was interesting. I do a lot of switching back and forth between Windows 7 Media Center, XBMC, and Boxee which can be a PITA since I can’t do this easily using use [...]
A few weeks ago I put together Part I of my guide on how to set up Bitstreaming with your Windows 7 HTPC . Part I focused on using Media Player Classic, so Part II will focus on setting up bitstreaming using WMP12/W7MC. This gets a little tricky, so you will see why after reading this guide my [...]
If you are the proud owner of an earlier model of the HP MediaSmart Server such as the EX470/EX475/EX485/EX487, you’ve probably been reading the reviews and watching with a little bit of envy the new features available to owners of the more recent EX490 and EX495. A while ago, HP promised the community an update [...]
Wix or Windows Installer XML is an Open Source toolset used to create Windows Installer (or MSI) packages, including many of the current Windows Home Server Add-Ins. I’m going to be sharing some of my experiences with Wix and the relevant code snippets to try and make it easier for any of you budding developers. [...]
If you have been following along with my last few posts (The Family IT Guy and Setting Up MPC) the main goal that I was working towards was to finally set up bitstreaming of HD Audio (DTS-MA and TrueHD) with my HTPC. Leading up to the last few months this was only possible by using an expensive sound [...]
