Warning: Backing up the registry before making any changes is strongly advised.

If prompted by the UAC to allow changes, click “Yes.”

Click once on the VideoSettings key to display the values on the right panel.

Increase Skip and Replay Intervals in Windows 7 Media Center

Find the SkipAheadInterval value on the right panel and double click.

This will display the Edit DWORD Value window.

choose the Decimal radio button.

WMC_skip_interval_a1

You should now see 29000 listed under Value data.

The value data is listed in milliseconds, so 29000 milliseconds is 29 seconds.

To set the skip interval to one minute, change the value to 60000.

1 skip

For two minutes, 120000, etc.

Click “OK” when you’ve finished.

choose the Decimal radio button and once again you will see the value data in milliseconds.

2skip

3skip

4skip

5skip

6skip