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Integrating Windows Media Center and Windows Home Server for the Average Family Part 2

By on September 1, 2008 in Hardware, How to Guides, Media Streaming, Routers, Software, Windows, Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server v1, Windows Media Center

This is the second in a series of articles detailing how one network went from dilapidated junker to media hero with the help of WMC and WHS. 

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How To: Play Blu-ray and HD DVD Movies from Vista Media Center

By on July 24, 2008 in How to Guides, Media Streaming, Software, Video, Windows, Windows Home Server, Windows Media Center

Do you want to watch Blu-ray and HD DVD movies in Vista Media Center? Here’s how.

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How To: Play DVD’s in Windows Media Center Stored On Your Windows Home Server

By on July 10, 2008 in How to Guides, Media Streaming, Software, Windows, Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server v1, Windows Media Center

Recently, I began ripping my DVD collection to my WHS Videos folder. My plan was to be able to view them from Vista Media Center.So I ripped/copied several of them over to my WHS, fired up VMC and became frustrated quickly because I could not find a way to point VMC over to my WHS folder. Grrrr!

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Turn Your USB Flash Drive into a Windows Install Disk

By on April 30, 2008 in Hardware, How to Guides, Under the Hood, Windows, Windows Home Server

Many of us more technically-inclined poeple have probably built our own Windows Home Server systems by now or are considering it.  But one of the more tricky problems with building your own Home Server is how to install it.  Sure there is picking up a spare DVD drive just to install Home Server intially, but most [...]

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