All forum topics Previous Topic Next Topic. Replies Bdubya 2 Bronze. Timdrouilard 4 Tellurium. I guess you guys kind of missed my point in a couple areas. First of all, I am relating to you my experience with this crummy limited OS when you try to do the things I tried to do with it, things that worked fine with my old machine with Win 2K and now work fine with this new one with XP-Home installed.
It does not like a multitude of media editing software thrown on top of the Media Center, that is where the conflicts arise. Used as is, or with other software it worked fine with all sorts of other software loaded, MS Office, full Adobe Acrobat, even Macromedia Studio MX and others, but the minute I started loading the previously mentioned software it started crashing. That kind of discounts any hardware problems, and the manner in which I described the loading and checking of the programs kind of proves what happened.
Do a little research on the web about this OS. First of all, what I said about it not being intended to be sold in this kind of system is absolutly true, and honestly I cannot believe MS has licensed it to Dell to be sold in systems that don't meet the intended specs per MS.
Also, there are plenty of other unhappy users with this OS out there, many for other reasons. Bottom line here? Conflicts with other apps have been reported, and one should research before getting this OS. That said, I have had very few problems with it, including it's primary XP functions and none that I couldn't resolve with a little research.
One final thing, then I'll drop my tirade. Well I'll be a son of a gun!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dell is OK after all, maybe. I called the other day to complain about this OS, they told me they couldn't send me a different OS like trade straight across for XP, they would only sell me Pro. I guess they aint so bad after all. I don't doubt you have the problems you describe but my experience has been just the opposite.
I have a Dimension with MCE and am very satisfied. Clash of Clans. Subway Surfers. TubeMate 3. Google Play. Biden to send military medical teams to help hospitals. N95, KN95, KF94 masks. GameStop PS5 in-store restock. Baby Shark reaches 10 billion YouTube views. Microsoft is done with Xbox One. Windows Windows. Most Popular. New Releases.
Desktop Enhancements. Networking Software. You'll just have to get used to your conversation scrolling up instead of down. If you want to use another IM client or check your e-mail, you'll need to leave the Media Center interface. You can't browse the Web within Media Center Microsoft learned its lesson with WebTV , but Online Spotlight will give you severely limited access to the Internet, should you find yourself much too comfortable to reach for a keyboard or a mouse.
Of more use are the on-demand, movie-download services from MovieLink and CinemaNow. And music fans can quickly find an Internet radio station via Live Wireless interference and the large Sony screen conspired to make for some rough sledding with watching TV on the Extender.
We attempted to watch play-off baseball TV programs that were both live and recorded on the Extender. Sporting events are a tough test, granted, with the detail in the crowd and the cameras quickly panning to follow the action. The Sony TV was fully calibrated before our tests unfortunately, the MCE 's display calibration tool can be used only with the screen attached to the PC , yet the image we got using the Extender was overly saturated.
The red in the St. Louis Cardinals' uniforms and hats bled profusely. And any foul ball into the crowd created artifacts that were very apparent. Microsoft suggests you use an We also tested the Extender over a wired connection, however, and didn't notice much improvement in image quality. The color was better, but ample artifacting was still evident.
Only when we resized the TV window from full screen to a smaller window that filled about a quarter of the screen did the image appear crisp. MCE lets you control the quality of your TV recordings to some extent, at least. There are four settings, from Fair to Best.
Our test system's GB hard drive could hold 64 hours on Best mode and hours on Fair. We set up a recording on the Fair setting and another on Best and noticed a discernible difference. User icon An illustration of a person's head and chest. Sign up Log in. Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book.
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