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MCE Guider is available for the 2005 version of Windows
XP Media Center Edition:
- English
version
(version 2.5.2, d.d. 15-10-2005, 644 KB; English user-interface)
- Dutch
version
(version 2.5.2, d.d. 15-10-2005, 647 KB; Dutch user-interface)
Please note that you may be asked to pay a small license fee in the
near future, to support the continued development of MCE Guider.
Please remember:
- This software is provided "as is".
- Support will not be given.
- It is not allowed to any other party than OABsoftware to (re)distribute
or sell MCE Guider, neither separate, nor as
part of a Media Center PC package, nor in any other way!
Release notes MCE Guider for Windows XP MCE 2005
Version 2.5.2
- The downloading of Talpa programming into was enhanced.
Version 2.5.0
- This version also gets the Talpa programming into your MCE guide.
- It works faster than previous versions.
- It provides an "uninstall" function, in case you want to switch
back to MCE's own internal guide-update function.
Version 2.4.2
- A nasty bug, introduced in version 2.4.1, was solved. This bug
made MCE Guider 2.4.1 crash once it had gathered the TV program information
for one channel.
Version 2.4.1
- This version of MCE Guider now also handles sub-categories correctly.
Version 2.4.0
- This version of MCE Guider works correctly with the new version of
the TVgids.nl website, from which MCE
Guider gets its data.
- Special categories like Movies are now recognized by MCE Guider
so you can now use the standard filter function of the guide in Media Center
Edition.
- Switching from summer to wintertime or vice versa no longer
requires manual intervention.
- Network connections via a proxy server are now supported.
- For all cable TV providers the channel frequencies are updated .
- MCE Guider got a new look!
Version 2.1.1
- The frequencies for the channels of cable TV provider "Essent"
were updated.
Version 2.1.0
- The user-interface of MCE Guider is now available both in English
and in
Dutch.
- MCE Guider now handles program ratings correctly; so if a
program is not intended for viewers of all ages, you can now see for which
ages it is intended and why.
- You can now open the manual from within the MCE Guider Setup
application.
Version 2.0.2
- MCE Guider now does a number of retries when making a
connection to the internet.
Version 2.0.1
- Added four more cable TV providers to the wizard for setting up
your TV channels and frequencies
- Solved a bug in MCE Guider Setup which in sometimes caused the
application to ask whether you wanted to save your changes before closing down
while you already saved your changes.
Version 2.0.0
- A wizard was added to make it easy to setup your TV channels and
frequencies.
See the manual for more information.
- The TV channels Arte and AT5 were added as channels you can get
program information for.
- Other small fixes and enhancements were applied.
Version 1.5.3
- The frequencies for the channels of cable TV provider "Essent"
were updated.
Version 1.5.2
- MCE Guider now does a number of retries when making a
connection to the internet.
Version 1.5.1
- Added four more cable TV providers to the wizard for setting up
your TV channels and frequencies
- Solved a bug in MCE Guider Setup which in sometimes caused the
application to ask whether you wanted to save your changes before closing down
while you already saved your changes.
Version 1.5.0
- A wizard was added to make it easy to setup your TV channels and
frequencies.
See the manual for more information.
- The TV channels Arte and AT5 were added as channels you can get
program information for.
- Other small fixes and enhancements were applied.
Version 1.4.2
- The frequencies of channels that you moved upwards or downwards
are now saved correctly.
Version 1.4.1
- Your computer will no longer go into stand-by or hibernation mode
as long as MCE Guider is downloading guide data.
- In MCE Guider Setup buttons were added to move channels upwards
or downwards in the list, so you can easily change the channel order.
- In MCE Guider Setup the "short name" field was removed from the
channel properties.
- The user-interface of MCE Guider Setup now has the Windows XP
look-and-feel.
- MCE Guider is now distributed as an installable application.
Version 1.4
- Fixed a bug in MCE Guider, which caused the
guide database to sometimes become corrupt.
- Added activation functionality.
- Small enhancements.
Version 1.3.1
- Fixed a bug in MCE Guider Setup, which caused the strange names shown
in the dropdown list from which you can select a channel.
Version 1.3
- A feature was added to correct the start- and end times of
programs because of the beginning of summertime or wintertime.
Version 1.2
- This version can handle the latest updates which were applied in
the source for guide data; so you should no longer get runtime errors.
- The bug that sometimes guide data was not downloaded for a
certain channel on a certain day was solved.
- The look-and-feel was enhanced.
- It's no longer necessary to turn off the
security of Microsoft .NET framework to run MCE Guider.
| If you switched off the .NET security to be able to use an earlier
version of MCE Guider, you can switch it back on by entering the
following commands in the Command Prompt: cd
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.0.3705
caspol -s on
|
Version 1.1
- Error handling was enhanced; you should no longer get runtime
errors.
- Some small enhancements.
Version 1.0