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Microsoft® Winter Fun Pack 2004 for Windows® XP
December 2004
Welcome
The Microsoft® Winter Fun Pack 2004 for Windows® XP provides enhancements and tools to help you have more fun with Windows XP this holiday season. The Fun Pack includes a wide range of winter-themed content, designed especially for digital music with Windows Media Player 10, digital photography with Windows XP, and more. The Fun Packs also include links to bonus content including Games for Windows XP, and more. Enjoy!
This document provides installation instructions and other information that will help you get started.
The Microsoft® Winter Fun Pack 2004 for Windows® XP available from http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/offers/default.aspx?displaylang=en include:
Visualizations for Windows Media Player
Skins for Windows Media Player
PowerToys for Windows Media Player
Add-ons for Photos, Media Center and more!
Note: Great care has been taken to ensure that the Winter Fun Pack for Windows XP operates as it should, however it is unsupported. For this reason, Microsoft Technical Support is unable to answer questions about the Winter Fun Pack. The Winter Fun Pack is for Windows XP only. Microsoft Winter Fun Pack 2004 for Windows XP can be installed only by users having Power Users or Administrator privileges on the machine. The following functionalities of Microsoft Winter Fun Pack 2004 for Windows XP will work only for users having Power Users or Administrator privileges on the machine: Photo Story 3 for Windows, Plus! Dancer LE and Winter Fun Wallpaper Changer.
The Winter Fun Pack for Windows XP, including the documentation and information provided, are for your personal use and are subject to the terms and conditions of the end user license agreement presented during the Microsoft Winter Fun Pack 2004 for Windows XP installation process.
Thank you and Happy Holidays from the Windows XP team!
Contents
Minimum & recommended system requirements
Visualizations for Windows Media Player
Skins for Windows Media Player
PowerToys for Windows Media Player
Add-ons for Photos, Media Center and More!
How to Uninstall the Windows XP Winter Fun Packs
Feedback about the Windows XP Winter Fun Packs
Minimum System Requirements
The software and hardware requirements for Microsoft Winter Fun Pack 2004 for Windows XP are as follows:
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Media Center Edition, or Windows XP Tablet PC Edition
350 megahertz (MHz) processor
64 megabytes (MB) of RAM
300 MB of free hard disk space
VGA video resolution monitor
CD-ROM or DVD drive, keyboard, Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device
Internet connection (required for some features)
Windows XP–compatible sound card and speakers or headphones
256-color video card
Video adapter with 16 MB or more of video memory (RAM) and 3-D graphics acceleration (required for some features). The video adapter must be compatible with Windows XP. Please see the section that follows for more information about recommended system hardware.
For Tweak MCE PowerToy, Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 is required.
Halo 2 Skin requires Windows Media Player 10.
WhiteCap Holiday Edition Visualization requires a Pentium III or equivalent processor.
Note: You can confirm that your video adapter is compatible with Windows XP by reviewing the Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) page at the Microsoft Windows Hardware Quality Labs Web site. Type the video adapter manufacturer name in the Search box, and then select Display from the list of hardware types.
Recommended
600 MHz or faster Intel Pentium III, AMD Athlon or equivalent processor
512 megabytes (MB) or higher of RAM
2 Gigabytes (GB) of free hard drive space (for video capture)
Super VGA (800 x 600) or higher video resolution monitor
Video adapter with 16 MB or more of video memory (RAM) and 3-D graphics acceleration, including the following adapters:
Matrox G400 and G450
SiS300
Trident BladeXP 128
3Dlabs Permedia 3
Video cards using the ATI Radeon and Rage 128 chipsets
Video cards using the NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 and GeForce chipsets
If you are using a video adapter containing the ATI or NVIDIA chipsets, we recommend you download and install the latest video card software drivers from the manufacturer's Web site.
An audio capture device such as a microphone (for Photo Story 3 for Windows)
Visualizations for Windows Media Player
The Winter Fun Pack for Windows XP includes an exciting visualization for Windows Media Player. For more information about using visualizations, open Windows Media Player, press F1, and then search for "visualization".
Visualization
Description
WhiteCap (Holiday Edition)
Enjoy this new WhiteCap Holiday Edition visualization for Windows Media Player with nearly 20 stunning holiday images that explode in vivid colors to get you in a festive spirit. See a snowman, candy cane, shooting star and more!
Note: WhiteCap Holiday Edition requires a Pentium III or equivalent processor.
To learn more about WhiteCap, please visit http://www.soundspectrum.com.
Ice Storm Visualization
With this visualization you can brave a winter storm from the safety of your PC! Fun extras allow users to customize snow fall, backgrounds and more!
Note: Requires a video adapter with at least 16 MB of video memory and 3-D Graphics acceleration.
Yule Log
With this visualization you can enjoy the pops and flares of a traditional Yule log on the fire, to the beat of your music.
Note: Requires 3D Graphics accelerator with at least 16 MB of video memory.
Skins for Windows Media Player
The Winter Fun Pack for Windows XP comes with exciting holiday skins. For more information about using skins, open Windows Media Player, press F1, and then search for "skin".
Skin
Description
Halo 2
Help save Earth! Enjoy the Official Halo 2 skin for Windows Media Player.
Note: This requires Windows Media Player 10.
Frostbite
Sink your teeth into this cool new Windows Media Player skin!
Ice
Transform your player into a frosty wonderland with a sleek shape, and enjoy your favorite tunes on your desktop.
Ginger Woman
Get into the season with this new Windows Media Player skin with a fun surprise.
Ginger Man
By popular demand, we've also included Gingerbread Man. Spice up your desktop with this fun holiday skin for Windows Media Player.
PowerToys for Windows Media Player
The Winter Fun Pack for Windows XP comes with exciting PowerToys for Windows Media Player. For more information, see below.
Holiday Music Auto Playlists
Fun new holiday themed auto playlists use Windows Media Player 10's Smart Jukebox features to find and organize your holiday music into mixes.
Auto Playlist Sets
Description
Christmas
These three sets of auto playlists automatically find all of your holiday music so you can easily enjoy it whenever you want. In addition, these playlists make it easy for you to transfer your favorite holiday hits to your portable device or burn to a CD for holiday music on the go.
Hanukkah
Kwanzaa
Once installed, the holiday auto playlists should show up in Windows Media Player 10 Media Library under, "Auto Playlists". You can also find them in your My Documents\My Music\My Playlists folder.
Song Signature Plug-in
Welcome to the Song Signature Plugin PowerToy for Windows Media Player 10.
This is an unsupported PowerToy designed to enhance your community networking when using Windows Media Player alongside Outlook 2003 or Outlook Express.
To use these files with Outlook 2003 or Outlook Express, please read the corresponding sections of this Read Me file.
Contents of this file:
Use with Outlook 2003
Open Outlook 2003
Open Outlook's Tools:Options menu.
Go to the Mail Format tab.
Go to the Signatures list.
Select "MPSongSignature" for whatever profiles you'd like to use it with.
Now, next time you are playing music in Windows Media Player and send out a mail, your friend will be able to understand what music you were listening to while writing that mail.
Use with Outlook Express
Open Outlook Express
Open Outlook Express's Tools:Options menu.
Go to the Signatures tab.
Go to the Signatures list.
Select "MPSongSignature".
Now, next time you are playing music in Windows Media Player and send out a mail, your friend will be able to understand what music you were listening to while writing that mail.
ConfigurationThis PowerToy has certain options you can set. To access these options:
Open Windows Media Player 10.
Open Windows Media Player's Tools:Options menu.
Go to the Plug-ins tab.
Select the Background category.
Select "Song Signature Plugin".
Click Properties.
In this dialog, you have three sets of options for configuration.
First, you can set the general properties of the signature file that the plug-in generates. If you only wish to share information about audio files that you play, you will wish to uncheck "Display metadata for video files". The "Text to prepend to signature" edit box lets you set what text your generated signature will being with. By default this value is "Now Playing:". You can set this to other values as you desire.
The second and third set of options are virtually identical. You can turn plug-in generation on or off for Outlook and/or Outlook Express. You can include appropriate text based upon your established rating of a file. You can also have the Song Signature plug-in append the Now Playing information to an existing signature, which we will call a "file template". You can set the file template that the plug-in should use by either entering the pathname in the supplied edit box or by using the "..." button to select the appropriate existing signature file to use to append to.
Note that it is preferred that you use a non-Unicode text signature file to append to. The plug-in should also support appending to HTML signature files, but will not append to RTF signature files.
Blogging functionality
This plug-in includes the functionality previously contained in the Blogging plug-in from the Windows Media Player 9 Series Fun Pack. Documentation on how to use this functionality can be found here.
Additional information
The resulting signature files are stored in %userprofile%\application data\microsoft\signatures. This would be useful information if you wished to use the signature files in other applications.
If you wish to customize the text used to describe Ratings, go to or create the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\UIPlugins\{51EB565B-89F1-4EB8-881F-CC1ACEA33E7C}\Settings. Under this registry key you may create and set the registry value names "Text1Star", "Text2Star", "Text3Star", "Text4Star", and/or "Text5Star". The text of these entries will then be used for the corresponding rating description.
Created by Zach Robinson of the Windows Media Development Team. Special thanks to Chris Lanier and the other Windows Media MVPs.
Media Info Exporter PowerToy for Windows Media Player 10
Export your Windows Media Player 9 Series Media Library to Excel, Word, Access, HTML, and even XML with this nifty little power toy from the Windows Media Player team.
Power toy
Description
Media Info Exporter Power toy
No better time than winter to get organized. Easily export your media player library to Excel, Word, Access, HTML and even XML!
Add-ons for Photos, Media Center and More!
Winter Fun Pack for Windows XP also includes fun add-ons for digital photography in Windows XP, Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 and more.
Wallpaper Changer
Let these wintry desktop scenes put you in the holiday spirit. Watch as your desktop background rotates through 6 different winter images. Customize the wallpaper changer with your own favorite personal photos, and even select special events to display your items. Images provided by Corbis.
Tweak MCE 2005
Tweak MCE gives you access to systems settings and options not normally exposed in the Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 interface, including remote control settings, Skip and Replay time customizations, interface options, and more. It also helps you to optimize Media Center Extender for plasma and non-CRT displays.
Note: This PowerToy requires Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
For more information about Media Center 2005, please visit www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/mediacenter
Bonus: Plus! Dancer LE – Kris the Holiday Dancing Elf
Just in time for the holidays, download a festive dancing 3-D Elf that grooves on your desktop to your music. A freely downloadable sample feature of Microsoft Plus! SuperPack, visit http://www.microsoft.com/plus to download Kris or a few of his friends. Then upgrade to the full version and get more sizes, access to over 25 dancers, over a dozen essential utilities for digital music, video and much more.
For more information on Microsoft Plus! SuperPack, visit http://www.microsoft.com/plus
Bonus: Photo Story 3 for Windows
Bring your digital photos to life with Photo Story 3 for Windows! Create stunning photo slideshows with narration, effects and music that are easy to share with friends and family. It’s the perfect way to share your holiday or vacation photos!
For more information on this product, visit www.microsoft.com/photostory.
How to Uninstall the Winter Fun Pack for Windows XP
To uninstall the Winter Fun Pack for Windows XP
Click on the Start menu.
Select Control Panel.
Double-click on Add or Remove Programs.
Select the Microsoft® Winter Fun Pack 2004 for Windows® XP component you want to remove, and then click Change/Remove.
Feedback about the Winter Fun Pack for Windows XP
Your feedback is valuable! Tell us what you think about the any of the elements contained within this package, or what you'd like to see in future releases. We would appreciate your comments via the Windows Media Wish website. While we cannot respond directly, we will be sure to read all comments and suggestions for the future.
Click to go to the Windows Media Wish Web site now.
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