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Fantasy sports have become a bit of a national obsession in the U.S. and a lot of us just can't get enough updates. Windows 7 Media Center gives you the ability to check out stats and updates of all your favorite baseball players from the Sports section.
Now, for the most hardcore fantasy baseball players, this setup might not give you all the information and numbers you crave. It will give you the basic season stats for all the players you select, but there is no way to configure your leagues scoring system, or track your head-to-head performance in your league, etc. Let's take a look at setting things up...
Media Center in Windows 7 records TV to your C drive by default. However, you do have the option to set Media Center to record TV to a different drive. It can be any drive attached to the PC, either external or secondary. Unfortunately, recording to a network share, even if it is a mounted drive, won't work.
Looking for a way to change the default folder for recorded TV? Windows 7 Media Center has a setting to let you change the Drive that you use to record TV, but it doesn't give you the option to choose a different folder. Fortunately we can configure a customized Recorded TV path with some basic registry editing.
If you're a Media Center user who tends to fall asleep while watching Media Center, you'll want to give the MC7 Sleep Timer a try. This plug-in comes courtesy of user Sixbit from the forums over at the Green Button website.
The MC7 plug-in can be configured to shut down your PC, or just Media Center at a specific time or manually configured interval. Let's take a closer look at how it works.
If you use Windows 7 Media Center to watch live TV, you may want to organize your viewing preferences by creating your own Favorite Channels groups.
There are a few built-in groups, but creating your own custom favorites allow you far better control over your TV Channel Guide listings.
If your channel guide seems a little cluttered, or perhaps there are just a lot of channels that you never watch, why not get rid of some of them? It can make scanning or flipping through your channel guide much quicker and more efficient. There are plenty of channels I'll just never watch. Like any of the shopping networks... (Side note: I actually know a fair number of people who really love these channels, I'm just not one of them. 
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There are a few ways to do this. Let's check them out...
After discovering the Boxee Remote App for the iPhone & iPod Touch a few weeks ago, I couldn't help but wonder if there was something similar out there for Windows Media Center. Even better would be an App for my new favorite piece of geekery, the Droid. Sure enough as I searched through the Android Market, I came across the Windows Media Center Remote Application.
The App communicates with your PC through WiFi and works by flicking your finger across the screen to navigate around Windows Media Center. You can even adjust the volume with the volume controls on your phone. Perhaps the coolest feature is the ability to transfer pictures, music, and videos to Windows Media Center from your phone.
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