Joining a domain within' Media Center 2005

Happy new year. Oh and creamhackered, could you not come up with something better than 'DLL Patching Hero'?

IMPORTANT NOTE: Tekmaven brings up a valid point -- Those that join a domain with Media Center 2005 will *not* be able to use extender devices due to the Fast User Switching dependency (who uses extenders anyway?)

UPDATE (January 8th): I have received news the Linksys MCE Extender device works fine when joined in a domain.

UNIMPORTANT NOTE: Yes, I know this is somewhat painful for us lazy folk. If you want to pick up where I left off, go patch netapi32.dll, lsasrv.dll, netid.dll (and more?) to ignore the IsLegacyMce value (beware of future hotfixes). Or maybe you could write a nifty restricted-registry-key-permission-bypassing-mabob to make this change on the fly?

1. Insert Windows XP CD.
2. Start > Run > X:\i386\winnt32.exe ⁄cmdcons
   (replace X: with the appropiate drive letter)
3. Acknowledge prompt by clicking 'Yes'.
4. Skip updating process by clicking 'Cancel' or by pressing 'Esc'
5. After installation, acknowledge success msg. by clicking 'Ok'
6. Start > Shutdown > Restart
7. At boot menu, select 'Microsoft Windows Recovery Console'
8. Select proper installation to log onto (default: 1) and press 'Enter'
   (If prompted, enter Administrator password and press 'Enter')
9. Type (without quotes) and press enter: 'cd system32\config'
10. Type (without quotes) and press enter: 'copy SYSTEM C:\'
11. Type (without quotes) and press enter: exit
12. At boot menu, select 'Windows XP Media Center Edition'
13. Start > Run > Type: 'regedit' and press enter
14. Click on 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE'.
15. File > Load Hive...
16. Browse and select C:\SYSTEM
17. Specify key name 'BANANA' and click OK
18. Expand: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > BANANA > WPA > MedCtrUpg
19. On the right-hand side, double-click IsLegacyMCE value
20. Change selected value to 1 and click Ok. (THAT IS NOT AN L!)
21. Click on BANANA subkey (under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE).
22. File > Unload Hive. Confirm.
23. Start > Shutdown > Restart
24. At boot menu, select 'Microsoft Windows Recovery Console'
25. Select proper installation to log onto (default: 1) and press 'Enter'
    (If prompted, enter Administrator password and press 'Enter')
26. Type (without quotes) and press enter: 'cd \'
27. Type (without quotes) and press enter: 'copy SYSTEM C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM'
    (Yes, you want to overwrite - Go ahead and do it)
28. Type (without quotes) and press enter: 'del SYSTEM'
29. Type (without quotes) and press enter: 'exit'
30. At boot menu, select 'Windows XP Media Center Edition'
31. Join domain. What, you were expecting instructions on this too?

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