The Ultimate Zune Hack List

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Even though the Microsoft Zune is extremely new, people are out here trying to make it do more than it does out of the box. Here is a list of hacks that I have collected:

Have fun!

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Daily Cup of Tech » Lock Your Laptop Says:
August 3rd, 2007 at 7:47 am

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HoOOts Says:
August 16th, 2007 at 2:32 am

igured this out earlier today:

I highly recommend backing up these registry values before modifying anything. If you don’t know how to do that, I don’t recommend that you even attempt this right now =)

1. Make sure your Zune is not plugged in and your Zune software isn’t running
2. open up regedit by going to the start menu and selecting “run”. Type regedt32 and hit “OK”
3. Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\ControlSet001\Enum\USB\
4. Search for “PortableDeviceNameSpace”. This should be contained in the Vid_####&Pid_####\########_-_########_-_########_-_########\Device Parameters within the above …\USB\ The ##’s listed here will be numbers and letters specific to your Zune
5. Change the following values:
* EnableLegacySupport to 1
* PortableDeviceNameSpaceExcludeFromShell to 0
* ShowInShell to 1
6. Plug in your Zune, and make sure the Zune Software starts up.
7. Hopefully at this point you can open up “My Computer” and browse your device, though it does NOT show up as a drive letter.

Right now I can access it both as a harddrive and sync through the Zune Software.

[Edit: This was first posted here and ZuneBoards.com after I figured it out. For more information, check out ZuneBoards.com!]

Hassan Says:
August 17th, 2007 at 11:58 pm

Be very carefull when viewing your zune in the explorer, I recently attempted this and it crashed my zune, it now refuses to play more than 3 songs with out freezing and shutting down.

Gettodeath217 Says:
November 3rd, 2007 at 2:51 pm

I can see my zune when i open “my Computer” now, but there is not really any difference of what i could put on there. I also have the Registry crack to add more than just mp4 video files. All i am looking for is something so i could add .Divx\.Xvid files.

Thanks for the cracks!!!

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PT Says:
November 4th, 2007 at 3:32 pm

Yup Gettodeath217,
DIVX Regedit
http://www.zunehack.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=28