upgrade to Media Center Edition?

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Is there any way to install MCE or at least the Media Center component
on an existing XP pro SP2 (on a machine with sufficient hardware),
instead of building a virgin partition? Thanks, Sven
 
Curious:
Win MCE is not sold retail, but provided preinstalled by sys dealers, so
where did you obtain it?
 
Sven Berg said:
Is there any way to install MCE or at least the Media Center component
on an existing XP pro SP2 (on a machine with sufficient hardware),
instead of building a virgin partition? Thanks, Sven
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No, and this is *not* an upgrade. You would have to do a clean install.

HTH
-pk
 
Curious:
Win MCE is not sold retail, but provided preinstalled by sys dealers, so
where did you obtain it?
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Windows Media Center Edition IS sold in an OEM package by many computer dealers
and builders. Of course, you would have to use that disk to install XP, so it
would have to be installed on its own clean partitioin.
 
Is there any way to install MCE or at least the Media Center component
on an existing XP pro SP2 (on a machine with sufficient hardware),
instead of building a virgin partition? Thanks, Sven
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Actually, Sven, if your machine is hefty enough to run MCE, I would simply
install Vista Home Premium, which also includes Media Centre.

Make sure you install the Service Pack 1 RC if you do install Vista.
 
Actually, Sven, if your machine is hefty enough to run MCE, I would simply
install Vista Home Premium, which also includes Media Centre.

Make sure you install the Service Pack 1 RC if you do install Vista.
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Actually, Donald, I have been using Vista on a separate partition of
this machine for a year, and I am content with its media center. For a
number of reasons, however, I continue to use the XP partition for
testing apps in an XP environment on a physical partition. Now, it
would be comfortable to use media center in XP without reboot. Thanks
for your (and the other posters') advice! Sven
 
Actually, Donald, I have been using Vista on a separate partition of
this machine for a year, and I am content with its media center. For a
number of reasons, however, I continue to use the XP partition for
testing apps in an XP environment on a physical partition. Now, it
would be comfortable to use media center in XP without reboot. Thanks
for your (and the other posters') advice! Sven
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Thats a good solution. However, it won't work for everyone.
While the version of Media Centre supplied with XP MCE is the same version as
the one supplied with Vista Home Premium, I can't use it in either XP or Vista,
since I have no media files which are usable with Windows Media Player (I
purchase all my media from iTunes) other than a few home-made movies, which also
work just fine under iTunes or QuickTime Pro.

In any case, I still recommend installing Vista SP1 Release Candiate. It really
improves Vista's performance.
Remember that it is still unfinished, so expect to run into minor problems.
 
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