This is probably a bigger mistake than Win ME, and you thought that wasn't possible. If a program was uninstalled then system restore was also used.įinal verdict? A huge THUMBS DOWN unless you are one of those users that is content with what Microsoft feeds you stay away, RUN away and hide from this piece of complete and utter garbage.
As a program was loaded, problems were noted, and then subsequent problems/conflicts were noted. The problems were experienced on the system as it came loaded from Dell, and then with a fresh OS install. And there is no way to unload the Media Center part of the OS, it is not just XP with an add-on, it is a brand new OS with the Media Center as an integral part of it.Īll of the above mentioned programs were loaded on a brand new E510, 3.2, gig of RAM, single 80g hd, fairly low end vid card, the ATI 300 PCIE, CD burner drive and DVD burner drive. What happens is if you load ANY of those programs it massively destablilizes the entire OS, you get constant crashes, freezeups and just plain non-operational items. I'm sure there are others, but my patience was finally exhausted, so I didn't attempt any others. During the week I battled this DARN thing I discovered I could not use Nero 6, Ulead Video Studio 8, Intervideo Win DVD Creator, and DVD Shr*nk. You CANNOT run any other types of media burning/editing software with this thing, it conflicts with Microsoft's all knowing Media Center. Well, I'm going to tell you that unless you are firmly convinced that Microsoft is a lot smarter than you are and knows EXACTLY what you want and what you need, if you aren't one of those sheeple, then if you try to use this OS you are in big trouble in a huge, big, giant major way. Good idea right? Run all your media from this dashboard, video, audio, burning of those media, photos, etc. What MS has done is take a wonderful OS (for them) and add a component called "Media Center" to it. Then XP-MCE 2005 was released, and a few people that like to use their PC as a family entertainment hub actually thought it was pretty neat.īut, now we get down to the problems, BIG problems. I guess it first came out a couple years ago or so with little fanfare, and not much in the way of users. All in all though, a very stable OS, at least for Windows.Įnter XP-Media Center Edition. We all know the XP saga, all the patches, and ultimately SP2, the monster patch.
Then came XP, with its Home and Pro versions. Win 2000 was a HUGE improvement, I still really like that OS and run it on my laptop. 98SE was actually pretty good, fairly stable, actually more stable than its business counterpart NT. We've all been thru the various errors 95 used to generate, and the elimination of many of those (supposedly) with the highly unstable first release of 98. Many of you have been using Windows OS for many years, many of us since 3.1 or whenever.
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