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Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005

By Matthew Elliott, CNET.com on 13 October 2004

Media Center Edition 2005 is the best desktop DVR app out there, but it's not yet ready to play hub for your digital home.

User rating:8.8

Comments (22)

  • lyane gave 7/10 on 25/09/2008 09:34 Report abuse

    very good it helped my compu alot thanx :-)

  • wbear_1 gave 4/10 on 11/03/2008 22:30 Report abuse

    Would be great if it worked, plus without Windows OS?!?

    • Bad: Since many months I have received my Vista home notebook and ran MCE for the first time. I had a very frustrating experience up till last week - NOT having a sight of my cursor when MC was in full screen format. I had to guess by the highlight of buttons on the screen to actually be able to select functions like Minimize... I still not have managed to KILL the program with ALT F4 as all other mainstream packages can obey this way of exit. Further, the pop up menu has no listing of moving MC window nor to Close...
      I have finally managed to work out the use of Windows button to see the cursor for a second or two but still not possible to work in two screen mode - when MC is in the full screen on the TV monitor I can not see the cursor on my main/PC screen.

  • LEO P gave 9/10 on 28/11/2007 08:14 Report abuse

    I got caught with the blue screen of death, so i need to repair my hard drive...

    does anybody have a copy or know were I can get a copy of The operating system

    The Blue screen was a UNMOUNTABLE BOOT VOLUME...

    • Good: CONTACT ME ; LEONARDPRATHER@YAHOO.COM

  • Disco gave 10/10 on 15/10/2007 16:52 Report abuse

    good program most ppl only have problems with recording because of their capture card get a good one and you wont have problems with it crashing

    • Good: good audio

  • siegfried gave 8/10 on 06/07/2007 17:23 Report abuse

    exellent audio

  • saravanan gave 8/10 on 19/05/2007 14:01 Report abuse

    not bad SO I WILL USE FIRST AND ILL TELL

    • Good: software
    • Bad: PLEASE I WANT SOFTWATE TO MY LAPTOP

  • Thang gave 8/10 on 06/04/2007 11:53 Report abuse

    it's very good for watching movie, however i like to run my computer with Windows xp sp2 than the others, including windows vista.

    • Good: iuhtieg
    • Bad: gtry6u

  • hedgie gave 6/10 on 03/01/2007 00:00 Report abuse

    Had to change my AV system in order to get this working!!

    • Good: its quiet easy to use
    • Bad: It doesnt work with McAfee or Symantec AV/system protection software.. it works fine with free AVG.. suspect issue is with the saving of recorded files to disc.. its also cumbersome and not totally stable but the simple fact it it is as yet the best tool for the job.. so even though its far from perfect and really MS you could be nicer to your supposed partners to avoid system crashes.. I give it a 6

  • wizkid gave 10/10 on 27/12/2006 07:05 Report abuse

    A very good version of windows, everything a computer should have and more, and having the operating system on my laptop, it runs like a dream and attends to my needs.

    • Good: picture, sound, stability, basically everything
    • Bad: nothing

  • mike30 gave 8/10 on 24/12/2006 23:18 Report abuse

    i think its great no problems

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