forovon

I don't have the Windows 8 Media Center, but since it is a app and not a usual desktop application, I doubt that I would like it. Simply because I've already tested a lot of apps and I hated them all. Also I can't run any apps anymore because I completely disabled the UAC which was necessary to get rid of some other super annoying windows 8 issues. So I am not interessted in the WIndows 8 Media Center, even though I've never tried it. Though I wouldn't have a problem with paying for it if I would really want it. But I don't. I want the old Windows 7 Media Center which was a desktop application. I'm also not interested in alternatives. I already tried them especially XBMC, but they all have their issues. XBMC for instance is just not made to control it with the mouse and you can totally see that because of the ridiculous mouse pointer implementation. It's laggy, doesn't disappear when moving it out the window. But even if that worked, it has too many other issues. I really just want the Windows 7 Media Center and I'm sure there must be a way to get it to work on Windows 8.

I have Windows 8 Pro, not 8.1. I also don't want to get something for free that would cost me money. I have an original Windows 7 Ultimate and I want to extract the Media Center from it. I'm not really interested in the Win 8 Media Center. This has many reasons. E.g. all apps I tested so far totally sucked, I can't even run apps because I lately disabled my UAC due to lots of general Win 8 issues and I don't want to pay 10 bucks for something like that. Though I would definitely pay 10 bucks to get the Win 7 Media Center on Win 8.

No one?

I was thinking about extracting the files from the image (the insallation DVD), not from a running system. But I will give that a try, even though I think this won't work because of missing registry entries etc.. edit: Nope, it did not work, but destroyed 12 hours of work (restarted my computer).

I would like to get the Windows 7 Media Center on Windows 8. WHat what I basically wanna try is to extract the media Center files form my Windows 7 Ultimate image and copy/install them on my WIndows 8 Machine. I hope you can help me. Best regards, forovon