However at the same time I prefer foobar for music and VLC for most videos, both of which can support interfaces for remote control and TV interfacing with a little know-how. I evaluated Nero 7 Home and it was absolutely horrendous in comparison. I just think of Windows as a gaming platform first, media second, work third, security last.Ĭourse I would never actually pay for retail MCE 05 (nor Pro nor Home for that matter), I'm just chiming in and saying its a good choice as a pre-install pick when you buy a new computer without paying extra for Pro.Īs for MCE itself, its a quick and easy and even somewhat pleasant although memory hogging solution. If there are a few features left out they are things like group policy editor and other larger user-base network/sys admin features and at that point if you really care about true large-scale more secure multi-user support/admin, you can do better for free anyhow. It is in no way 'nerfed' to the extent that the first XP Home editions were to the first Pro OS's. Still have full remote desktop serving capabilities, etc. I still can host IIS on it and put the same VS 05 or SQL server 05 on it. I find its install to be far superior to an old copy of XP-Pro I have which is pre SP2 in that its more up-to-date without hours of patching and without leaving tons of needless patch uninstalls on your drive. ![]() Although it doesn't make sense to really compare OS's on what its supposed base or heritage is, you should really care about what exact revision it is. ![]() You can get full pro-functionality with a few registry settings if needed and disabling fast user switching, but if you don't need those network domain functionality it is the exact same as XP-pro. Little unknown fact is that it is actually based on XP professional (well they all are probably same code-base now, just some features enabled/disabled, etc), it just has domain joining settings disabled partly because of some MCE extension features (ie. I have MCE 05 pre-installed on my laptop.
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