Description
Use Windows Server 2008 R2 as your home entertainment system in the living room.

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Vista Media Center in Server 2008

According to my disassembly in IDA, it checks the tokens.dat file.
Creating a custom tokens.dat file will be a PITA and will be highly illegal.
My idea is to NOP the checks and return "LOL YES" every time.

EDIT: It also checks SLGetWindowsInformation (note the lack of DWORD there).
We need to also pass info to that using the custom SLC.dll, but I'm clueless there.

TVersity 1.7 is what I'm using to share files to PS3. I just watch Band of Brothers on my external hard driver thur TVersity. Work prefect! I tried a lot of upnp servers and none really worked good. Forget Windows Media Center! wmr

Look, what I found!
Well, but this howto is probably useless for MCE from Win 7 because of that stupid tokens.dat check...

Is there a compilation on 7MC to 2008r2 efforts tried to date? I've got a spare box at home and some free time to get this thing done. If I need to start from scratch, so be it.

I think a good place to start looking is in the Wishlist - Vista Media Center in Server 2008 topic and the pages linked from there where they got stuck on a Software Restriction Policy. Hope you can make some progress in this Wish; it would make a lot of people happy!