help needed on upgrade from windows XP Home Edition to MCE

siobhanellis · **14th July 2005, 10:16 PM**

I've just bought the Remote with MCE OEM edition. When I did the upgrade, it upgraded me to Professional Edition, but it looks as though I didn't get MCE. Any clues?

Thx

Siobhan

eepunk · **14th July 2005, 10:39 PM**

I don't know that an upgrade is possible.

Did the MCE setup ask for the second disk during install?

E.E.

impact · **14th July 2005, 11:00 PM**

Attempting to do an upgrade results in errors at best... at worst does not install the MCE components.

To use MCE - you unfortunately must do a fresh install - you must use the 2 Windows XP MCE disks, and above all - if you use an XP Key, you get XP - You have to use the supplied MCE software Key for a proper MCE installation...

Now having said all that - do you know what MCE is and how it looks? To the beginner - MCE will look exactly like XP... until you click on Start and see a little green button labelled Media Center

siobhanellis · **15th July 2005, 10:39 AM**

Thanks, I finally worked it out fo rmyself that it had to be a new install (That is SO dumb) but I guess comes fromMicrosoft not meaning for his to be "customer installable". So, I blew away my old installation (Fortunately all my user files were on a different partition) and now I'm re-installing all my old programs.

Thanks for the help though

Siobhan

P.S. amazingly (considering I'm an IT techie) I read te "documentation" that came with the OEM version first, so I knew about the green button.

impact · **15th July 2005, 11:22 AM**

Just had to check about the green button - I have seen a post or two before, where the user must have anticipated the MCE screens would be the whole system and didnt expect to have XP under neath it - lol...

Gotta check these things - but Im worried about you.... reading manuals - nah - just go for it...

Best of luck and enjoy!

eepunk · **15th July 2005, 12:27 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by impact

Just had to check about the green button - I have seen a post or two before, where the user must have anticipated the MCE screens would be the whole system and didnt expect to have XP under neath it - lol...

Gotta check these things - but Im worried about you.... reading manuals - nah - just go for it...

Best of luck and enjoy!

Agreed!

Manual, shmanual, where's my hammer?

E.E.