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Vista advice moving to new computer
I have access to all the Vista tools, but that doesn't of course guarantee they will always work. Startup Repair (why it was named startup is a good question since it can be a fixer when startup isn't an issue) has been useful when it worked. It occasionally needs to be repeated 2-3 times. Not my experience of the

Prcessor upgraded now Windows Media TV tuner does not work
ravikiranmaj...@gmail.com techsmartys Top 10 Vista Hits & Misses 1) Hit: Sidebar & Gadgets 2) Miss: Installation 3) Hit: The Aero Glass GUI 4) Miss: Performance 5) Hit: Media Center-ization 6) Hit: WMP 11 7) Miss: Search, Security Dialogs 8) Hit: DRM 9) Hit: Flip 3D 10) Miss: Memory Requirements

New TV - channel scanning turned my $3 basic cable into premium ...
Also is there a wizard in Vista for setting up network sharing etc like XP pro has? I need help with enabling filesharing so I can connect to my Vista pc .... Meaning in the xbox media center there is an option called UPnP Media Servers (Auto Discover). That is the only way to connect to the media sharing on Vista.

Top 10 Vista Hits & Misses-4
Richard Urban richardurbanREMOVET...@hotmail.com microsoft public windows vista general I had the exact same experience. I have 4 HP Digital Media Center PCs and have "so called upgraded" 2 of them to Windows Vista Home Premium. My Vista system was activated and the genuine feature was working just fine with

Prcessor upgraded now Windows Media TV tuner does not work
The list goes on and on...ridiculously slow file operations, sketchy VPN client, flakey Media Center, etc. With the release of Vista SP1, Micro$oft has remained consistent I do take issue with the file copy times and hope SP1 has addressed that issue, but, overall, my Vista experience has been a positive one.

Windows Media Player & Center
but no matter what combination of antenna, card, software, etc., my experience boils down to this... I can use either or both of these tuners with Vista's Media Center (MCE). Both come with software to do things that MCE won't do - such as the remote control on the Pinnacle - but NEITHER works with its own software

Microsoft Vista promotion
In summary, GeeXboX, which incidentally has no affiliation or tie in with the Microsoft console, is a fully operational Media Center solution available on ..... a set of discounted upgrade offers for buyers of new PCs), customers can often only guess which computers will give them the advertised Vista experience.

Vista RTM & Gapless Audio Playback On XBox 360 Media Center Ex
So ignoring the 1.0 score because of unsupported hardware, I still managed to improve my Experience Index from 4.3 to 5.1. Does this mean the system performs 20-25% faster? No, but there is a noticeable boost in how fast Windows Vista starts, and how long it takes to open applications and do some common tasks.

With 7 years to work, how can things be so bad?
Recently I put a dvd in to play and media center says that I haven't loaded one. I have and I can feel it loading but it is not recognized as having been loaded. This started happening the day after my experience with Gateway. I couldn't help but feel like there was a connection to this error and Gateway.

Vista OEM
losnah los...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista general Fair enough, I think I buy another pc..one with media center..it come with a By the way the only the disc that came with my vista pc was the UPgrade your windows vista experience disc. It does contain all the 32bit versions of Vista.

Recommended Tv Tuner for Vista 64 bit?
I have yet to hear from a single source that has actually seen one of these upgrade disks and documented the experience. Everything written so far is One possibility is that Microsoft is afraid that people might try to keep running XP or Media Center on their existing machines and use Vista on a new computer.

Vista u/g arrived, but do I install?
I removed my “spare” hard drive before installing Vista…don’t ask me why…it made sense at the time. The problem is; it has an entire bootable copy of the above mentioned, now absorbed Windows XP Media Center on it. I’d like to be able to use the disk space, even if only for storage. What problems will I experience

Differences between xp pro, xp home, and xp mce 2005
XP Media Center can do the same thing as Home Premium and Ultimate if thats what you mean... and wmp11 is crap anyway... gomplayer performes far better at playing movies. Andre's not "just" spouting the MS line... he's speaking from his own experience with Vista. Vista "works" for Andre. Works for me too.

Nvidia 6800GTOC (256MB) ATI Raedon X1300 (256MB) - Poor perfor
One possibility is that Microsoft is afraid that people might try to keep running XP or Media Center on their existing machines and use Vista on a new computer. .... Is it possible to transfer my Vista license in this scenario? I know that the previous license is wrapped into Vista, so if my hardware fails,

Reply to Mike B. Part 2
I don't want to reinstall my Vista Ultimate but am getting close to doing so. PLEASE HELP !!!! THANKs In the past, AMD CPUs required special drivers to solve some TV & other problems. It has been my experience with MCE 2005 that a CPU upgrade forced me to reactivate Windows in less then 30 days and repair DRM.

Vista and XP: Better Together?
... microsoft public windows mediacenter Are you able to listen to other music content (eg MP3s) from within the Media Center Experience? I can stream my wma files from my vista pc to my xbox 360 when i navigate using the media blade, but i cant play them when i use my 360 as a media centre extender.

Windows Vista Complaints Department (Chris Prillo)
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002 AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net DTS-L http://dts-l.net/ Ed Stoddard wrote: Darrell My Vista Ultimate computer took the update just fine, which WAS the "important" update dealing with Windows Media Center part of Vista.

VISTA64 Media Center Compatible SVideo Input Device
Windows media center is a mess, its like trying to find your way through a maze. So my experience with Vista is a bad one. This doesnt mean that it doesnt work for others, just not me. I will go back to XP and probably stay there for a long time to come. Just my $159 worth... Jim David Yeah I have anti-virus and

I can't download anything, Vista is driving me nuts!
And I can conclude from my own experience that the fix that works for this issue is renaming/removing the original Media Player folder, not just clearing it out. My library is as it should be. (Same is true if I copy the .wmdb file over to my Vista machine and run it on Vista WMP11.) So I think this means that

Just something I noticed
For my part it means I've just wasted £300 on a XBox that I bought specifially as a Media Center Extender to connect to my Vista machine. purchased an XBox 360 to use as a Media Center Extender and horrified to find that gaps are placed between tracks ruining the listening experience, even over a wired network.