66 thoughts on “ How to program the buttons on your MCE Remote ”. But then I reset the remote. I just recently built a new media PC though using Vista. I assume you have a standard windows media center remote? You can remap one of the useless buttons (i.e. The red, yellow, etc buttons) to be alt-f4. 66 thoughts on “ How to program the buttons on your MCE Remote. PC though using Vista Ultimate which. How to program the buttons on my mce remote.

I have been all over google trying to figure this out. I tried intelliremote which worked but it broke the guide button on my remote. I found some posts about editing the registry, but there wasn't a guide to do exactly what I wanted so I didn't want to go changing values.

I installed autohotkey but have no idea what to do with it lol. New Spell Patch Zero 88 more. Scripts are not my thing.

Bjork Vespertine Rar there. So what I am trying to do, is map a button on my HP MCE OEM remote that closes WMC. Alt+f4 is fine. This is mainly for the wife and kids as they are trying to get used to using the htpc only as I canceled dish. Is there someone out there that can help.

Maybe you know how to change the mapping for an insignificant button like 'print' and make it alt+f4? I would rather just edit the registry and be done with it then install an app but whatever. Thanks for reading. Originally Posted by whiteboy714 I'm pretty sure you can change what the buttons do in the registry. I just don't know much about messing around in there.

But thanks for the link I will give it a go. I don't think it's that easy. If it was, there would be tons of information on the 'net about it, and there would be no need for third party applications to intercept remote commands before MCE gets them. I've looked around a lot, and I've yet to find a registry hack that can redirect button presses.