Re: Media Center any good?

Well excuse me, but would you be willing to share with the newsgroup what
that 'simple registry setting' might be???

Thanks for your infinite kindness...

"gerry" <germ@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:eCixqD4bFHA.2152@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I have been running windows media center edition 2005 for some time now on
> a laptop which I use for development purposes - it is joined to a domain.
> I also have it installed on a desktop pc also joined to a domain.
> it IS full blown XPpro, it does come with IIS, you CAN join it to a domain
> with one simple registry setting ( although it isn't officially
supported )
> I have not run into any problems, quirks or differences from XPpro.
> supposedly you lose the use of SOME extenders - but I have yet to
encounter
> any use for extender anyway.
>
>
>
> "Scott Allen" <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:sheoa1hj6hq1j4387fbbfq5fmschim1qa0@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Here is some insight:
> > http://blogs.msdn.com/mcreasy/archive/2004/10/13/241803.aspx
> >
> > --
> > Scott
> > http://www.OdeToCode.com/blogs/scott/
> >
> > On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 12:12:10 -0700, "G Dean Blake" <gb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >I just bought a new laptop to be used as my dev box but it came with
> Windows
> > >Media Center. Does this have all of the features of xp pro such as
IIS,
> and
> > >other things required by asp.net developers or am I going to have to
> Install
> > >Windows XP Pro?
> > >
> > >Is there any list of what xp pro has that media center does not?
> > >
> > >Is media center based on xp pro or xp home?
> > >
> > >Thanks,
> > >G
> > >
> >
>
>


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