I'm just curious as to what the major differences are between XP MCE, and XP HE. I read some where that you'd have to actually upgrade to it, from XP Home, or Pro, and I'm wondering, why would anyone upgrade to it.
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Windows XP Home vs Windows XP Media Center Edition
I'm just curious as to what the major differences are between XP MCE, and XP HE. I read some where that you'd have to actually upgrade to it, from XP Home, or Pro, and I'm wondering, why would anyone upgrade to it.
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MCE came with my new computer, and honestly, aside from the ease of handling different MP3 players automatically, I don't really see a difference between it and XP Pro w/ SP2.
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What do you mean by automatically handling different MP3 players? You mean auto-detecting them?
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Sort of. Instead of just opening it up as an external storage device, it can tell if the player supports music and video, and sets up different directories for each. So, if I try to put a video in the music folder, it won't let me. Kinda simplistic, but it keeps me from dropping in a video, only to have the player not find it.Originally Posted by Michael
What do you mean by automatically handling different MP3 players? You mean auto-detecting them?
That's about it though...
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That doesn't sound very useful or interesting (for me).
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It's not. Unless there is some fantastic thing I have yet to find. Otherwise, it's just Windows...That doesn't sound very useful or interesting (for me).
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Does MCE take up more resources than HE and Pro?
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I like Media Center, it's good for watching and recording live television (just like tivo). It's built into my copy of Vista.
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Buuut, couldn't recording television be done just the same on any other version of XP, provided the right hardware is installed also?
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I don't think so, but I had XP Pro on a P-4 1.6GHz, and now I have MCE on an AMD X2 3800+, so I can't really judge it.
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I dunno, I guess, there's a program that works like Media Center, called Meedio. It works on XP, but it's not free.
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It's been renamed to MeediOS
http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/entry/2961/meedio_reborn_as
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Media Center is just windows XP Pro, with the media center application. It is not a completely different OS.
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That's kinda what I thought, but I didn't know for sure.
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Yeah, um, good luck finding this application though.
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Not really interested in that application.Just wanting to know the basics as to why anyone would prefer MCE over HE/Pro. And, the differences seem pretty lame. :\
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