This post is a little outside my usual ones about my life. Basically, I want to tell everyone how I got my Remote Wonder working with Vista. It was easy.
First, go to this site. The process I used parallels the advice given for the Remote Wonder II. I'll describe how my process differed.
First, if you go to ATI's website, you'll see that there are no first-gen Remote Wonder drivers for Windows Media Center. Instead, you should download the latest XP drivers (3.04 as of this writing). After plugging in the reciever and allowing Vista to find the basic drivers, run the downloaded drivers. Reboot when directed. You'll get the same errors noted in the article.
After downloading the X10 drivers, as the article directs, there's another problem. Every time I tried to start the Remote Wonder control program, I got a notice that I was missing the MFC71.dll file and the program would close. After a bit of light googling, I found this site, which offers the .dll file for free download.
After unzipping the .dll file and putting it in my '\Windows\system' and '\Windows\system32' directories, everything worked just fine.
Quite frankly, it was far easier than getting the thing to work under XP. Any problems or successes? Let me know in the comments (until they're closed, that is).
