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My name is David Evans, I live out in CT. I am a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and also carry a few certifcations on Windows Vista Media Center/Home Server. I started with Media Center back in 2004, as a way to not have to pay the cable company for a DVR. It turned into a hobby and a passion of mine.

I run a small business building them and supporting them, as well as one of the top posters on TGB. I started this site to start blogging tips and tricks for Media Center, as well as being a 3rd party site run on my own guidelines.

Hidden menu to show status of tuners in Media Center

by DavidinCT 27. March 2010 06:21

This is a nifty little treat while your watching TV and running into issues. You can see what each tuner is doing and what it’s viewing or recording. Also a bunch of other info on it as well. It’s a hidden debug menu. This shows up on the Vista with TV pack and Windows 7

While watching live TV grab your remote and hit 411 then Info the info key. Use the left and right on the remote to move between the info, and 411 info to dismiss it.

In this example, on my office machine I have only 2 tuners and it’s showing the status of the tuners.

w7-debug

 

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3/27/2010 4:09:40 PM #

101411

Good! Now I know if my USB Tuner is working properly. I miss the feature of choosing the primary adapter that was on Vista pre tuner-pack.

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