Going from Xp Mexia Center to Professional

[Guest]

Ok, I just bought a PC that came with Media Center. The thing is I Bought the PC to run a Video Editing Program called AVID XPRESS PRO. It requires Windows XP Professional to run. Also that software has had some trouble with one of Microsoft's hotfixes (kb824141), which comes already installed in Media Center. What I want to do is go back to XP Professional and don't let my PC download that particular hotfix.

I'm afraid that if I remove the hotfix from the Media Center Version, that my PC won't be able to start.

I tried using a Windows XP Professional UPGRADE version I had to upgrade from Media Center to Professional but I had no luck, after installing it just would restart and restart in the Windows screen.

Any help as to how to proceed would be greatly appreciated..

 

[Yves Leclerc]

Media Centre can not be "upgraded" to Pro. I also do not think that Media
Centre qualifies for a "clean install" using Pro Upgrade.

Y.

Ok, I just bought a PC that came with Media Center. The thing is I Bought

the PC to run a Video Editing Program called AVID XPRESS PRO. It requires
Windows XP Professional to run. Also that software has had some trouble with
one of Microsoft's hotfixes (kb824141), which comes already installed in
Media Center. What I want to do is go back to XP Professional and don't let
my PC download that particular hotfix.

I'm afraid that if I remove the hotfix from the Media Center Version, that my PC won't be able to start.

I tried using a Windows XP Professional UPGRADE version I had to upgrade

from Media Center to Professional but I had no luck, after installing it
just would restart and restart in the Windows screen.

 

[purplehaz]

1 - Media center edition cannot be used to upgrade to xp pro. Its not a
valid upgrade path. A full version of xp pro may be your only choice.
Although you may not be able to find drivers for all the hardware as media
center edition runs on special hardware that xp pro may or may not have
drivers for.
2 - If you format the computer and install xp pro, you will void your
warranty and support with the new computer.
3 - Most likely the media center edition will run the software, give it a
try. Romoving a hotfix should be fine as well.
4 - If you needed a computer with xp pro, you should have bought one with
it. I would return the computer and buy what you need, not what they need to
sell you.

 

[Chris Lanier [MVP]]

Windows Media Center is a superset of XP Pro, meaning it is XP Pro w/ the
additional features of the Media Center "program"

--
Chris Lanier
Microsoft MVP - Digital Media
--

Ok, I just bought a PC that came with Media Center. The thing is I Bought

the PC to run a Video Editing Program called AVID XPRESS PRO. It requires
Windows XP Professional to run. Also that software has had some trouble with
one of Microsoft's hotfixes (kb824141), which comes already installed in
Media Center. What I want to do is go back to XP Professional and don't let
my PC download that particular hotfix.

I'm afraid that if I remove the hotfix from the Media Center Version, that my PC won't be able to start.

I tried using a Windows XP Professional UPGRADE version I had to upgrade

from Media Center to Professional but I had no luck, after installing it
just would restart and restart in the Windows screen.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Since WinXP Media Center Edition is a _superset_ (iow, it does
_everything_ WinXP Pro can do, plus contains additional features) of
WinXP Pro, replacing it with the regular WinXP Pro is actually a
"downgrade." No OS that I've ever heard of supports downgrades, so
your only option would be format the hard drive and perform a clean
installation. You can do this if you wish, but all you'll really
accomplish is voiding the laptop's warranty -- and for no good reason.
There's not a thing that WinXP Pro can do that WinXP MCE cannot also
do, including networking.

Windows XP Media Center Edition Home
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ehome/default.asp


Bruce Chambers
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[Guest]

I'm trying to remove hotfix kb824141 since it seems to be my only problem with Media Center. I'm trying to remove it with Add and Remove Programs but it doesn't work. An error shows up telling me that it can't rewrite a file, I ignore the warning and when I try to restart, windows won't do it. I had to recover the original files for everything to work again.
Is there anyother way to remove hotfix kb824141 that I may not know of? Will this work around the error I'm getting?