Question: The TV guide in Windows Media Center only shows 7 lines. The font is massive and it is a real pain having to scroll so much to compare channels and see what is on.

![alt text](https://i.stack.imgur.com/MC5Uj.jpg)

Does anyone have a fix to change the font size and display more lines at once? If there was just the option to decrease the font size throughout Windows Media Center - I'd take it.

Answer: 
The patch and procedure to increase the number of lines described here:  

[**Hacking Windows 7 Media Center:** Increasing the Default Number of Rows in the EPG](http://www.hack7mc.com/2009/12/increasing-the-default-number-of-rows-in-the-epg.html)

![Patched W7 MCE screenshot](https://i.stack.imgur.com/CYht7.png)
The hack in accepted **Answer** is no longer available for download.
In spite of many other video media players I have tried, I like how WMC PVR features work... like record the next episodes with many criteria for auto-delete... 

Your *best bet* is to use the [Resource Hacker tool.](http://www.angusj.com/)

Open **Microsoft.MediaCenter.Shell.dll** in your resource editor (prefix Microsoft is truncated in older x32 versions) and browse to ...  

HTML > ... EPG.MCML file. Inside **search** for key words in the following lines and edit the values as described:

Name=”InitialGridPosition” Left=”FilterButton,1,1″ Right=”Parent,1,-53″ Top=”FilterButton,0, –44  

Name=”InitialGridPosition” Left=”FilterButton,1,1″ Right=”Parent,1,-53″ Top=”FilterButton,0, **-134**

Set Target=”[FilterButtonLayout.Bottom.Offset]” Value=“493”  

Set Target=”[FilterButtonLayout.Bottom.Offset]” Value=“**580**”

Set Target=”[Table.VisibleRowCapacity]” Value=“7”  

Set Target=”[Table.VisibleRowCapacity]” Value=“**11**” 

Font FontName=”global://comm:LightFontFace” FontSize=“48”  

Font FontName=”global://comm:LightFontFace” FontSize=“**0**”

SAVE FILE  

Then open WMC 

[![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1EIdm.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1EIdm.jpg)

Open Resource Hacker> Open File> C:\Windows\ehome\Microsoft.MediaCenter.Shell.dll 

Make above edits and If you want to make font smaller Search Font > change size to 10 or whatever F3 (repeat) 

... until prompted to Compile (yes)> tab to left column and repeat...(search ..."font" ..edit value F3 ...etc.  

 There are dozens of locations in many HTML files.

When searching beyond one HTML file to the next , after an edit you may be prompted to **Compile text** bu then F3 stops working until you ^f find text again then F3.... It's not very elegant code.
Then Press SAVE Icon.