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Windows Media Center

I have just bought a new laptop (Dell E5105) from QVC and it comes with the Windows Media Center OS.

Am I going to have to replace the OS with XP Professional I am a web designer and VB Programmer and I need to have IIS and want NTFS. Does the Media Center OS support these two items

Thanks,




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Windows Media Center

  • Overflow

    The base platform for Windows Media Center is, surprisingly enough, XP Pro not XP Home like you would think. It is a superset of XP Professional so you shouldn't experience any problems with installing either IIS or setting the file system to NTFS.

  • tanis15063

    Surprisingly, I purchased a Dell inspiron 700m last year with Windows XP Pro. I was easily able to install IIS and setup my web.

    I purchased a Dell Dimension 5150C last week with Windows XP Media Center. I can install IIS. But I cannot even see a single web page. /localhost/iisHelp results in HTTP 500 interal server error. The page cannot be displayed.

    What am I missing Is there any other specific setup

    I can ping the Dimension Desktop from my Inspiron and vice versa.

  • Stephen Archer

    I have the same problem. I can run IIS on a Windows 2000 machine, but I recently bought a Compaq with Windows XP Media Center, and I get the same error when trying to hit localhost. Did you ever get a fix


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