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422497 2006-01-19 20:55:00 Ok I managed to twist a mates arm into selling me his dust collecting copy of Windows Media Centre Edition. I have a few questions before I install the monster 1st.

1) Will it create a dual boot system with my current version of Windows XP Home?

2) I have Trend PC-Cillin 2006 Internet Security (upgraded from the evaluation version) Are there any legal or copyright issues I have to worry about... in other words can I install the same copy of PC-Cillin 2006 on my Windows Media Centre Edition installation or do I have to buy a seperate license.

cheers

chiefnz 		chiefnz (545)
422498 2006-01-19 21:45:00 Ok I managed to twist a mates arm into selling me his dust collecting copy of Windows Media Centre Edition. I have a few questions before I install the monster 1st.

1) Will it create a dual boot system with my current version of Windows XP Home?

Never tried dual booting XP MCE but can you dual boot 2 copies of the same version of Windows?


2) I have Trend PC-Cillin 2006 Internet Security (upgraded from the evaluation version) Are there any legal or copyright issues I have to worry about... in other words can I install the same copy of PC-Cillin 2006 on my Windows Media Centre Edition installation or do I have to buy a seperate license.

cheers

chiefnz

I don't see a problem with this (if you can get dual booting working) because you will never have both copies running at the same time. 		CYaBro (73)
422499 2006-01-19 22:40:00 I can't give definite answers to either questions.

I think it's highly likely you can create a dual bootable system with XP home and MCE. At least I can't see why it wouldn't work.

Regarding the Trend PC-Cillin 2006 Internet Security, this could be a gray area. Running multiple instances of software is generally OK, as long as only copy is running at once. The maximum number of concurrent users must match the number of licenses however.

However from PC-Cillin, you're primarily purchasing a subscription, and the software is a vehicle for using the subscription, so I'm not sure. I'm guessing you'd need two licenses / subscriptions. 		kingdragonfly (309)
422500 2006-01-19 23:01:00 Have just been thru the rather complex business of setting up MCE on a new computer of a mates . The first part of the install is just like setting up XP pro SP2 [ so I can't see there would be a problem settling up dual booting between XP home and MCE/ XP Pro ] - you put in disk 1 , then disk2 , then reinsert disk1 to finish the install - then mobo drivers etc like any install . It appears you only get one chance during the install to join a network however .
We got everything working well , then launched WMCE and have struck a small problem with hardware compatibility wrt the video capture card [ needs a driver update ] .
This was installing the latest version of MCE , I believe the earlier versions had different install routines 		KatiMike (242)
422501 2006-01-19 23:56:00 Ok I managed to twist a mates arm into selling me his dust collecting copy of Windows Media Centre Edition. I have a few questions before I install the monster 1st.

1) Will it create a dual boot system with my current version of Windows XP Home?

2) I have Trend PC-Cillin 2006 Internet Security (upgraded from the evaluation version) Are there any legal or copyright issues I have to worry about... in other words can I install the same copy of PC-Cillin 2006 on my Windows Media Centre Edition installation or do I have to buy a seperate license.

cheers

chiefnz

Yes dual boot will work fine, if you install WMC into a different partition or drive it will update the boot.ini to give you the choice to boot either OS.

When setting up the OS go out and check for media center specific drivers, eg ATI have a particular package for it. A lot of compatible tuner cards also have particular drivers for media center.

I wouldn't worry about copyright issues with your A/V if you are only running 1 copy at a time. I would suggest you leave it off the media center unless you are only planning for basic use like playing videos and music. If you are wanting to use it as a PVR then real time A/V scanning will hammer your disk I/O performance and may cause problems.
The approach I take with my media center is that it's an appliance and if anyone were to install anything on my baby or even browse the web or check their email on it I would personally give them the big stick. This approach makes A/V a bit redundant. 		BIFF (1)
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