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(More customer reviews)I just started using this remote this morning, but so far it's working exactly how I want it to work. I had to install 3rd party software to get it to control anything other than media center, but I found a free program that works really well -- I would have given this remote 5 stars if it had come with the ability to control other programs.
It installed itself automatically in just a few seconds (windows vista home premium 64bit OS). The signal strength is great - the receiver seems more than sensitive enough.
As is, the remote is only set up to work for windows media center. The directional arrows have some functionality in windows, but it's not enough to control anything. The remote doesn't give you any control over any of the individual buttons, which is annoying. It doesn't even include a button to exit media center once you're in it - you can put the pc in standby, and you can turn the monitor off/on, but you can't exit media center. I guess this makes sense, considering they apparently don't think this remote will be used in any other application.
However, this was easy enough to fix this with 3rd party software. I'm currently running a program called EventGhost, which has allowed me to set up the remote to control other programs, as well as other options (such as exiting media center). It took a little while for me to figure out how to use it, but now it all makes sense. Once I got the 3rd party software all figured out, the remote became exactly what I want in a PC remote.
The design of the remote seems fine to me. No backlighting, but not such a big deal to me. I also set up my harmony 670 universal remote without much trouble. The only issue I had was finding the manufacturer in the harmony remote software (although this is a problem with the harmony software, not this media center remote) -- MediaGate is what it says on the remote and in the description on amazon, but my logitech harmony software didn't have mediagate in the list of manufacturers. I went through the wizard for a manufacturer not listed, and it came up with "AL Tech GP-IR01BK", which appears to be correct (at least all the correct functions were listed). Also, newegg's description of the exact same remote indicates it is made by a company called "AVS Gear." Anyway, once I got the harmony program to find the correct remote, everything from that point on was easy.
Anyway -- so far so good! I'll modify my review if it suddenly stops working. I'm planning on upgrading to windows 7 in the next few weeks, so hopefully it still works after that.
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