If, like me, these programs cause issues for you, heres another workaround
It's the same idea, press the windows key and your mouse gets untrapped. Unfortunately, I find that when I do this, every time i minimise/close a window, the mouse gets trapped in media center again which is very frustrating.
If you open the task manager and leave it running, however, this doesnt happen and you can minimise and close windows as you like without the mouse snapping back to media center
To be honest, this issue bemuses me. I have no idea why microsoft have designed media center this way