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Title: Media Server and Tivo Beacon
Post by: rorbin1 on December 14, 2004, 01:58:15 pm

Hi, I have Media Center 10.0.155 and I just purchased & networked a Tivo series 2 to my home network over the weekend. I followed the directions in this forum to set up Media Server. Let me first say how easy it was to set up and how AWESOME it interfaces with Tivo. I plan on recommending it to everyone in the www.tivocommunity.com forum to purchase Media Center. Nothing better exists!

My question is, now that I am using Media Server instead of Tivo Publisher to view my photos & listen to my music through Tivo can I remove "Tivo Beacon.exe" from my system tray? I did an msconfig and I saw that it was still running in the background & using up some of my RAM. I hate to waste Ram and I'll stop it from running if I know that it wont effect Media Server.

My OS is Windows XP Pro if it matters

Please advise, Thanks

Title: Re: Media Server and Tivo Beacon
Post by: John Gateley on December 14, 2004, 02:08:09 pm

Thanks!

You can remove the beacon from your system if desired. To stop it, you can use control panel->Administrative Tool->Services. To disable it, remove the TiVo desktop software.

Be sure to restart Media Server afterwards.

j

Title: Re: Media Server and Tivo Beacon
Post by: rorbin1 on December 14, 2004, 02:13:21 pm

Thanks John!

The best software on my computer is Media Center and more people in the Tivo universe need to know about it. I plan on getting the word out.