
Navigate to, and export the following key.Launch the Registry Editor by typing regedit from the Windows 8 Start screen.Follow the steps below, and your Media Center remote’s Green Button will no longer launch Media Center. This should be a relatively safe modification though, and the first step will be to make a backup of the key that is to be modified. The solution involves editing the Windows Registry, so you need to approach this with caution. Fortunately an enterprising user over at the Windows Experts Community who goes by the name milli260876 has found a way. So how do you get back to the Start screen while using a remote control? Well, by default it just isn’t possible. Assuming you have Windows Media Center installed, it will launch it. Tapping that button will do what it always has though. So that’s great, but how do you get back to the Start screen? That big green button on the remote looks like a home button, and that’s how it has always worked in Windows Media Center. The OK button on the remote will also launch any app that that the cursor is currently highlighting. Grab your Media Center remote, and you’ll notice that the arrow keys on the remote have no trouble moving amongst the tiles. Take the Windows Media Center infrared receiver, and plug it into your Windows 8 machine.


This feat, in and of itself, is pretty simple.
#ADVANCED MCE REMOTE MAPPER TOOL START PC#
If you’re interested in using Windows 8 for a home theater PC you’re going to need to be able to control it with a remote control.
