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
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.