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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.

Release notes MCE Guider for Windows XP MCE 2004

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

•  Initial release.