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Windows XP Media Center

Post Date: 2008-02-16
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    Posted: 16 Feb 2008 at 5:01pm
Hi,
Just placed my order with DSO Friday night, and when I called, the guy recommended that I change my config from Windows XP Home to Window XP Media Center 2005. Wasn't thinking and went with the suggestion, but now I'm second guessing myself.
 
I went online and it looks like you get some interesting features, but a dumbed down interface for media centers instead of a standard Windows desktop config.
 
Does anyone have any experience with Media Center? I'm not looking to use it as a media center, but primarily as a gaming computer. Any thoughts?
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Someone else correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the media center interface is in addition to the normal XP interface- you open the media center interface when you want to use it for media stuff, but can normally use the standard XP interface whenver you want.
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Venture is right. Its XP and you only see the media center GUI when running it. It can be full screen or as a window. Ugly but it works OK.
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