Talk:Windows XP Media Center Edition

message: This is incorrect.  Initially it was a requirement that: "Media Center tuners must have a standardized driver interface, and they must have hardware MPEG-2 encoders"  However, ATI FOR SURE, made their ALL-In-Wonder and HDTV Wonder Card compatible with MCE 2005 and all of these were software encoded cards.
http://ati.amd.com/products/faqs/windowsxpmcefaq.html
PLEASE CORRECT this error.  I actually came here looking for a list of supported cards but if you don't have that right you are not likely to have a list of supported cards correct.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.90.226.26 (talk) 01:50, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Under Hardware Requirements 

message: Since I have had to correct a couple of editors on this I will post here. MCE 2005 is based on Windows XP Professinal edition according to all the sources at Microsoft. They removed the abillity for a MCE 2005 computer to join a domain and to cache network logins between sessions, they did this because they wanted to price it below the cost of Windows XP Professional without MCE 2005 to be cutting into their sales of Pro. Every other feature seem in Pro is still in MCE 2005. PPGMD 16:30, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Professional vs Home Edition 

message: Considering (according to the article) MCE is basically Windows XP, perhaps discussing support for games, and other third party software in general, would add something to the article. I don't know much about MCE myself, that's why I looked for this article, but right now it doesn't mention much about this. Retodon8 15:31, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well other then not being able to use the latest drivers gaming on the MCE is no different then gaming on Windows XP, the only difference between MCE and Pro is the requirement of MCE signed drivers, and the disabling of certain networking dlls and libraries. PPGMD 16:38, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: MCE seems to have an really rudimentary accounts system. While I was trying to set up a limited-access account for my grandmother on her PC so that she wouldn't accidentally hose the thing with some virus, I ran into a problem: non-admin accounts seems to lack write access to anything but their own Documents And Folders directory. This really is a hassle for any program that saves config files or user-data it its default Program Files folder. 66.36.145.127 01:45, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Isn't this the normal way it works? I havn't seen any limited accounts having write access to program files folder as a standard. With NTFS file system of course. So I don't see why the hassle is MCE specific. Aqualize 19:55, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gaming on MCE 

message: Does anyone have sources for these hacks?
I saw a number of them on The Green Button. I simply added a general section because a number of editors kept readding a link to that particular hack in the versions section. PPGMD 23:34, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I doubt that would legal. Even if you own a license to both products the procedure involves either cheating Windows 2003 Server into thinking it is MCE by hacking the license part of the registry or reverse engineering part of MCE. Both options violate the license agreement. However, I am not sure if the hack to allow MCE 2005 to join a domain would violate the license. MartinDK 17:08, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There's nothing illegal about it if you own both operating sytems and are willing to use two licenses on one computer, just unsupported. But as far as Wikipedia goes linking to the hacks is borderline, putting them directly on Wikipedia is out of the question, and against policy. PPGMD 17:45, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for clearing that up for me. It just seemed strange to me at first which is also why I left the article itself untouched. MartinDK 17:57, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources on the hacks of XP professional and server 2003

message: Was this a featured article or not? I've removed the tag, have found no references to this claim. --Blocked! 19:09, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Good spotting. It was introduced on this edit  along with the infobox, so my guess is that the infobox was copied from another software page which was a featured article. And because the function of the template is so subtle (just that star), it'd be easy not to realise it wasn't supposed to be there. --Limegreen 22:58, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Featured article? 

message: Press The Green Button has been redirected here, and had the following content:
Press the Green Button is a promotional marketing phrase used by Microsoft to describe how easy they claim the convergence is between a Media Center PC and a Personal video recorder (PVR).
It originates from the color of the button on the Media Center Remote and it also is an opposite, in retrospect, of the phrase, "Don't push the red button"(see: Big red button), a joke used to describe something of complication and cautiousness.
Possibly, it should be deleted, but for now it is redirected. —Centrx→talk 06:23, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moved from redirected page 

message: For the time being, I replaced the slang "porn" with pornography and removed the incorrect use of an apostrophe, but I doubt that whaterver limitations the product puts on porngraphic content (if any) have anything to do with using a remote control.  I will leave the line otherwise intact for somoene who knows the product better.  I suspect this sentance is erroneous. 143.182.124.2 19:29, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pornography? 

message: I've seen an inconsistency with the Microsoft codenames article. That one says the original MCE had the codename eHome and 2003 edition used Freestyle. In the original is designated Freestyle and 2003 nothing.
Anyone who's sure about whats right should change this. Aqualize 19:59, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Codenames 

message: I've noticed that someone (cable provider, network, other?) has the ability to "black out" specific shows so that they can not be viewed or recorded using Windows XP Media Center Edition.  Has this "feature" been documented somewhere so we can include it in the article?  Rklawton 21:29, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Program blackouts

message: I find the 'hacks' section to be very poor. And I'm puzzled by the trouble it suggests one should take to get a copy of Windows Media Player 6.4 when you can easily download and install Windows Media Player 11 from the Microsoft website.(?) [http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/AllDownloads.aspx?displang=en&qstechnology=  Windows Media Player 11 download webpage
:Because some people want the older version. Upgrading to an even newer version isn't going to compensate for not getting the old version. Josh (talk | contribs) 16:54, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Windows Media Player, a "hack"?

message: Is now a portal.  :/  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.91.118.8 (talk) 21:17, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  mce-components.com 

message: April 2006 Update Rollup for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 (KB914548) http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8728 Install KB914548 to get the latest updates for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005. This update supersedes all updates since Update Rollup 2 (KB900325) for Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005. For more information about this update, read Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 914548. Bizzybody (talk) 07:08, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  April 2006 Update Rollup 

message: Best Windows Version ever!! --91.14.178.1 (talk) 20:12, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Windows 

message: Hi.
I looked for sources on its existence, and failed. There is not even evidence of such thing in Microsoft Support Lifecycle database. The only mention of it is in , which could be typo, intended to refer to Windows XP Media Center (original release).
Also look at the release dates:
* WXMC - Q4 of 2002
* WXMC 2004 - Q4 of 2003
* WXMC 2005 - Q4 of 2004
There is no room for a WXMC 2003 release.
Best regards,Codename Lisa (talk) 00:57, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Windows XP Media Center 2003? 

message: lol why did you just kick it out of the article like nothing happened /j  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:6080:B005:4700:2DF0:7458:8821:7E4F (talk) 06:52, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  why did you all forgor about press the green button