Comments (219)

1. acm2000
   July 8th, 2006 | 13:45

   does this need a clean install or can you simply upgrade keeping all your old settings and installed apps?

2. Martin
   July 8th, 2006 | 14:55

   there’s nothing about this in the NFO but I think it *could* keep everything… try to make some backup with Norton Ghost or something like this and apply this patch…

3. garry_b
   July 8th, 2006 | 14:57

   yup please try and let us know it would be quite interesting to know if this works.

4. clock2113
   July 8th, 2006 | 19:46

   OOh, I want to change my laptop from XP home to this. Please post a torrent! And a torrent for Norton Ghost in case it fucks me up…

5. RAJESH
   July 8th, 2006 | 23:12

   please send me windows xp media center which I really wanted

   thanks in advance
   thanks.

6. macie28
   July 8th, 2006 | 23:16

   hmm…i just switched from MCE to XP Pro… personally im not really interested, but good release none the less.

7. fl0PPsy
   July 9th, 2006 | 08:21

   Has anyuone spotted the torrent around for this?

   Could safe me a reinstall.

8. clock2113
   July 10th, 2006 | 06:25

   bump?

9. niftey
   July 10th, 2006 | 19:07

   Works a charm no need to back up as everything stays on your hard drive.

   Just remember to reboot after each install.

10. clock2113
    July 10th, 2006 | 21:51

    Hey niftey, where’d you get it?

11. RanCorX2
    July 10th, 2006 | 21:58

    does this work on xp home?

12. heNK
    July 10th, 2006 | 23:39

    where can I find the .torrent file or something like that (no newsgroups) ? thanx mates

13. wissou
    July 11th, 2006 | 16:34

    torrent @ mininova

14. clock2113
    July 11th, 2006 | 21:55

    Here it is -> http://www.mininova.org/tor/363639

15. heNK
    July 11th, 2006 | 23:35

    it is legit, just tested it on xp pro uk

16. meridian
    July 12th, 2006 | 02:37

    Anyone know if it leaves WinXP Pro portions intact? I still want to connect to domains, and native WinMCE can’t do that. Thanks!

17. clock2113
    July 12th, 2006 | 05:21

    I just installed it on my XP Home OEM installation, worked perfect. I was even a dumbass and did the autorun thing to install MCE before running that boot thing, and it still works.

18. wrewing73
    July 12th, 2006 | 13:03

    Did the cd boot thing and it was saying it couldn’t find what it was looking for and incorrect parameters. I have xp pro.

19. wrewing73
    July 12th, 2006 | 16:55

    what registry changes was the first part supposed to make? mine didn’t work.

20. jjboy
    July 13th, 2006 | 18:44

    can someone post a working torrent the one above dont work with my torrentopia

21. Craig
    July 14th, 2006 | 05:31

    Hi

    Whoever said it works in Windows Xp Home is a dumbass, i tried and now when i log into windows it crashes after a few seconds. Going to have to restore to registry, serves me right for believing some egg that saidi t worked on home i guess.

22. Jordan
    July 14th, 2006 | 17:05

    Hey…can anyone get their XBOX 360 working with the Media Center, after they applied this?

    Btw, everything works perfectly for me…just my 360 wont connect with the Media Center

23. JoeSchmoe
    July 14th, 2006 | 22:02

    Craig, you are a douche. and you love the cock. there is no reason to be a prick to someone that you don’t even know who probably installed it properly and you didn’t.

    fucker.

24. Craig
    July 15th, 2006 | 02:20

    JoeSchmoe, firstly stfu, secondly i know exactly what i was doing thats why i can easily fixing it back now im just giving a warning to everyone to not listen to people like that who talk outa their arses, you simply cant go from xp home to media center edition u need pro to convert to media center. Again stfu i am merely trying to help others that upgrading from HOME will not work.

25. G
    July 15th, 2006 | 10:30

    i’ve tried this and works perfectly as media centre on xp home, can’t get rollup 2 to work though, waiting for next release!!

    Any one had any luck installing extender for 360 with this?

26. akira
    July 16th, 2006 | 22:13

    works here on xp pro and 360 mce functionality ..just wish i could get transcode 360 to work

27. meadowmuffin
    July 18th, 2006 | 04:36

    Links are good as of today. I have not downloaded yet as I was researching what this software was. Be sure to scan files 1st. I repeat. I have NOT tested these yet. Please respond back here as I will follow up on this. I’m curious too.

28. Jordan
    July 18th, 2006 | 18:11

    akira….how did you get the 360 mce to work????

    I called M$ support but they cant help me

29. wrewing73
    July 18th, 2006 | 20:23

    Martin, could you please tell me what registry changes need to be made. The first part did not work and I would like to try manually. Thanks.

30. wounds
    July 19th, 2006 | 13:24

    when i first instlaled i didnt boot form the cd and just installed from the auto rub, how ever stupid me, i read the info, and i booted form the cd no the registery is getting some error on that prompt thingy, so im guessing i did sumin wrong, ill try and do a system restore to try and fix it and reinstall it and see if this made any difrence.

31. wounds
    July 19th, 2006 | 13:54

    nope windows restor doesnt Work. i dont know FTW WTF

32. Donotto
    July 22nd, 2006 | 01:37

    Re: inability to install Rollup 2:

    “Not only do you need dot net framwork 1.1 you also need Media Player 10 installed for the Roll Up 2 to work, I had the same problems, updated, and Roll Up 2 installed with no trouble at all.”

    (The CD has .NET 1.0, so upgrade that and install Windows Media Player 10, then the rollup)

33. Craig
    July 22nd, 2006 | 03:04

    If you try to use this to upgrade from Xp home it wont work, the registry key overwrites the existing windows xp key and causes random chrashes and errors on startup. Solution : Reinstall windows or restore the registry through safe mode.

34. Sam
    July 24th, 2006 | 02:38

    hey.. cant get the reg edit thingo to work… could i do it manually? can someone tell me what changes were made on the boot thing. THX

35. David
    July 27th, 2006 | 14:11

    Sam, I had the same problem. If you get any idea what to do in the first dos part please post here!! I will do the same if I get this problem solved.

36. Shroud
    July 31st, 2006 | 07:02

    Has anyone tried this from a WinXp Pro VLK (corporate license)?

37. Dana
    August 1st, 2006 | 07:58

    The BartPE portion didn’t work on my system — no AHCI SATA drivers.

    However, once I booted Vista and edited the drive letter in a (copy of) the script, it imported the registry and changed it correctly.

    Of course, for me it was pointless — I have no TV tuner, and I use Winamp and Media Player Classic.

38. Dana
    August 1st, 2006 | 08:03

    Oh yeah, all the Pro stuff seems to still be there.

39. wrewing73
    August 1st, 2006 | 17:03

    Dana…what script did you change?

40. hagar
    August 2nd, 2006 | 13:16

    on my Windows XP Corp version it does not work. The typical “Media center only works on windows xp media center edition” error appears.

41. joff
    August 2nd, 2006 | 18:42

    i had problems at first all i did is reinstall windows xp install the media center stuff upto the roll up 2 files then update windows will all available updates do install and programs (like nero, office ect)then the rollup files will work. after that finish off installing all your programs. one thing if u want to get the media center extender set up to stream to your xbox 360 do not install nero as this does something to make it not work dunno what but with nero in the pc setup file for the 360 wont install. follow this and everything should work.

42. hagar
    August 3rd, 2006 | 16:57

    after reinstalling Windows XP Corp (= XP Pro with Volume licencing key), and retrying the converter, it works fine! Apparently my old installation was to messed up.

    Now, MCE works! Except for the last step: the Rollup 2 does not want to install as it states MCE is required for te update to install.

    Great tool!!

43. MRG
    August 4th, 2006 | 04:40

    Anyone know why the 360 setup wont work? It always finds a error while installing .NET Framework 1.1 SP1, says I can close it or debug, Doesnt work >_

44. Pendragon
    August 5th, 2006 | 05:33

    Worked here but ehome reciever wont install…anyone got drivers for it ?

45. hagar
    August 6th, 2006 | 17:58

    If step 4 (installing rollup update 2) fails, you might try visiting Windows Update. On my machine it installed additional MCE specific patches. After rebooting I could install the Rollup Update 2, while before I got the error it could only be installed on XP MCE 2005… worked for me.

46. newb
    August 6th, 2006 | 21:54

    Part one fails because it doesnt see your harddrive. I’m guessing this happens if you had to install drivers (F6 during setup) when you first installed XP…to get aroudn this plug your harddrives into a ide port that doesnt require you to install drivers on an initial xp install.

47. john
    August 7th, 2006 | 03:36

    Hey..

    Been trying to use this to setup akimbo.. with no luck akimbo is saying i do not have MCE installed. Anyone happen to know of away to get around this?

    Thanks

48. hagar
    August 7th, 2006 | 15:16

    @47
    you can also use F6 during part one (when the CD starts loading) to load your drivers. No need to plug your HD in an IDE port. At least not on my machine.

    @48
    I also noticed that some programs refuse to install. For instance the MS tweak MCE powertoy cannot be installed.

49. Dana
    August 13th, 2006 | 20:38

    My notebook’s hard drive is on SATA, and there is no floppy drive.
    I had to boot into a different Windows OS, then copy the MCE folder on the CD to the desktop. I edited one of the scripts (I forget which) that said “REG LOAD C:\ ….” to reflect the correct XP partition. Once I ran it then, I was able to boot back into XP and go on.

50. boe
    August 21st, 2006 | 06:42

    I tried this a few times – even with a fresh install of winxp sp2 – same issue with bart pe every time. It gets to the bart pe screen then my screen goes black. My computer stays on but my monitor is black. Let it sit for 30 minutes and still stays black. Not sure if it is because it is set up for a VGA cable as I only have a DVI cable and screen that accepts DVI or if it is having a problem with my X850 video card. I tried to use f6 to install the drivers for my Promise 378 SATA controller but that didn’t work either.

    Is there a way to just import the registry change or modify the registry by hand to get around the bart pe setup?

    Is there a newer version with fixes for some of the issues listed above?

    Thanks

51. jim
    August 21st, 2006 | 06:44

    Hello,

    I tried this a few times – even with a fresh install of winxp sp2 – same issue with bart pe every time. It gets to the bart pe screen then my screen goes black. My computer stays on but my monitor is black. Let it sit for 30 minutes and still stays black. Not sure if it is because it is set up for a VGA cable as I only have a DVI cable and screen that accepts DVI or if it is having a problem with my X850 video card. I tried to use f6 to install the drivers for my Promise 378 SATA controller but that didn’t work either.

    Is there a way to just import the registry change or modify the registry by hand to get around the bart pe setup?

    Is there a newer version with fixes for some of the issues listed above?

    Thanks

52. jim
    August 21st, 2006 | 06:44

    No luck so far.

    I tried this a few times – even with a fresh install of winxp sp2 – same issue with bart pe every time. It gets to the bart pe screen then my screen goes black. My computer stays on but my monitor is black. Let it sit for 30 minutes and still stays black. Not sure if it is because it is set up for a VGA cable as I only have a DVI cable and screen that accepts DVI or if it is having a problem with my X850 video card. I tried to use f6 to install the drivers for my Promise 378 SATA controller but that didn’t work either.

    Is there a way to just import the registry change or modify the registry by hand to get around the bart pe setup?

    Is there a newer version with fixes for some of the issues listed above?

    Thanks

53. jim
    August 21st, 2006 | 06:47

    Sorry for the dupes – I thought it was going to send an authorization to my e-mail and since I wasn’t getting anything in my e-mail I tried more than one account.

54. Scott
    August 28th, 2006 | 06:39

    Anyone know what the registry edits are? I just want to mod the registry to trick a media center screen saver into thinking i’m running MCE. Thanks!

55. Bedros
    September 4th, 2006 | 05:56

    where do I download a copy of this XP pro to MCE converter?

56. Garfunkelyunkely
    September 14th, 2006 | 04:49

    Anyone had issues simply running the autorun file? I installed the XP corp volume license, and it crashes when I run the autorun on the cd. thanks!

57. Rob
    September 15th, 2006 | 19:21

    In the instructions it says:

    6. If you are prompted to insert your XP Disk 2 point the program at the file on the disk /cmpnents/mediactr/i386/mediactr.cab

    But how do i do this?it just keeps saying insert XP service pack 2 cd and i can choose retry, more information or cancel.when i cancel it comes up again. What do i do? Any help would be greatly appreciated

58. DeeJ
    September 25th, 2006 | 17:41

    kool

59. james
    September 27th, 2006 | 13:39

    I cant get rollup 2 to work, step 4. I also get an error during MCE 05 instal. Media Center works. X360 doesnt work.

60. asad
    October 20th, 2006 | 13:52

    very good program

61. danielnaz
    October 24th, 2006 | 18:28

    where can i download this converter program?

62. Jay
    October 25th, 2006 | 01:49

    Hi all, I installed the program with no problems butt can’t get it to find my tv tunner and I know is a compatible one. (WinTV-PVR 150) any ideas?

63. Alan
    November 1st, 2006 | 02:03

    http://www.btmon.com/Applications/Unsorted/XP_Pro_to_Media_Center_Edition_2005_Converter.torrent.html

    I just found a torrent link for you to download the converter. It is Estimated as Fast with 20 seeders at already 75kb per second!

64. Fall Update Error - E66 at M.vail
    November 1st, 2006 | 05:55

    [...] Lets face it, your not going to do almost any of the things you did with the original Xbox on your 360 because some of it is already apart of Xbox Live. With the Fall Update you can stream wmv files from Media Player 11. You can use the 360 as a Media Center if you have Media Center PC and even if you don’t have a Media Center PC there are way around it. It’s not going to be a ftp server with only a 20gig hard drive but there might be a 60gig hard drive soon. [...]

65. danielnaz
    November 8th, 2006 | 23:51

    im am sort of new to xp and i have the file but it is in some sort of .rar format it is the correct size though 27 items in all do i just burn that on cd or how do i do this i have not attempted it yet i am very poor and i pulled my computer out of a dumpster so if that says any thing i dont have many cds to try this with. could some one give me some insite please or post a very detailed walk through. i would be very thank full

66. The One
    November 10th, 2006 | 08:05

    i tell ya people, this os converter works! i never had any problems before and after install. after the installation, i manage to get a full latest update of mce at microsoft update site with no errors at all. btw, im on winxp pro and this os converter is a must get on those planning to upgrade to mce (specially on streamin purposes ie. xbox360). to the scene group who made this happen, i thank them a lot. now my winxp pro is officially a mce.

67. Nick
    November 15th, 2006 | 14:05

    Can’t get it to work, when I come to install rollback 2 it comes up with an error message can only be installed on xp media center edition 2005.
    I have inistalled as per instruction starting with the boot from CD etc, etc and and restarted after every section. I have tried formating my HD and starting from scratch with xp pro and then installing the software, however no luck!!!!
    ANY IDEAS????

68. Nick
    November 15th, 2006 | 14:10

    PS I FORGOT TO MENTION I ONLY GET THIS MESSAGE WHEN INSTALLING PART 4 ROLLUP 2

69. Justin
    November 16th, 2006 | 06:11

    I have the same problem as Nick, listed above. However, I am installing a new version of .netframework, as well as windows media player 10 and Microsoft XP SP2. I hope this resolves the problem, will let you know. However, if this does not work and you know the possible cause, please let me know. Thank You.

70. Tim
    November 16th, 2006 | 20:29

    I also had difficulty with rollup 2. I followed these instructions to install it manually.

    http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2006/05/22/604380.aspx

71. Justin
    November 17th, 2006 | 03:44

    I installed XP Service Pack 2, .net framework version 1.1 and the service pack, and windows media player 10 – still no luck. I tried the link above, do not understand. I still cannot install rollup 2 – says it must be installed on Media Center. I also got an error during the process that said something along the lines of, “can not register Media Center.” Please help

72. Justin
    November 17th, 2006 | 06:19

    P.S. – The media center componets are installed on my desktop, ie, the shortcut to media center. As well as the sample pictures in my documents and the themes under desktop display properties. However, when I try to run media center an error pops up that say it can only be run on media center edition.

73. Beefteck
    November 21st, 2006 | 00:17

    Hey guys! I got the download and I can not boot up the CD!

    Ok here is my problem.

    Step 2, I boot the pc from CD and when it is loaded I will get a promt to edit reg.

    This does not happen. Basically how do I boot my pc from the CD?!?

    please send help to adamn@rcn.com or here is fine thanks!

74. hagar
    November 22nd, 2006 | 14:34

    PROBLEM WITH STEP 4?
    Visit Windows Update and install all available updates (especially .NET related and MCE related), reboot your PC. Then Update Rollup2 can be installed. I tried this on 2 machines with success

75. Beefteck
    November 22nd, 2006 | 19:19

    Well I am having a problem booting the CD, The Command Prompt will not pop-up and let me make changes… any help?

    Also for people who do not want to use torrents and so on, I uploaded a full package of everything you need to do this HERE: http://www.pspiso.com/index.php?topic=4967.msg33798#msg33798

    Just sign up and go there and that is my post with everything you need!

    Enjoy!

76. Jigga Who?
    November 24th, 2006 | 00:51

    @Beefteck
    that site is currently closed to registrations, any chance you can up it to a free site like mediafire.com
    they have no file limits, no logins and no stupid popups like other file upload sites

77. Brett
    November 25th, 2006 | 02:11

    Set my bios to boot from CD, but boot from CD fails and requests system disk/ OS(hard drive). I continued installing everything in order and rebooting after everystep. Running into Rollup 2 issue, and when I go to access media center I also get the Media Center can only be accessed on a media center PC. Any help??

78. Beefteck
    November 25th, 2006 | 03:26

    @ Jigga Who?

    http://www.megarotic.com/?d=FFXQEDNU

    or School Safe:

    http://lix.in/7a1e6e

79. Beefteck
    November 25th, 2006 | 03:27

    o sry, the password it :

    beefteck

80. Smokey
    November 25th, 2006 | 06:13

    Just found it in a newsgroup… got it to work on my xp pro.. and windows genuine still checks… great! But, don’t install IE7, it’ll mess up your cover arts, I had to uninstall IE7 in order to recover the CD artworks.

81. Beefteck
    November 26th, 2006 | 01:19

    how did you install it? The only problem i am still having is reg. edit part to install it…

82. clock2113
    December 2nd, 2006 | 21:20

    So I’ve had a converted version of MC from this for a few months, and it still works, but I’d like to uninstall it, because MC sucks compared to just using iTunes and Media Player Classic – and I hate how it always runs extra services in the background.

83. sekhar
    December 4th, 2006 | 09:10

    send media center edition

84. CarRamRod
    December 6th, 2006 | 05:00

    If you cant figure out how to install this program I suggest you just go ahead and pay for the upgrade from XP Pro 2 MCE. Another bit of free info I will let you in on is if you are running a 64bit system, DONT SWITCH TI VISTA. Even though they claim to have a final version out, it is a POS. If you care about your CPU stick with XP Pro x64. For those of you that can still find your way around a computer, including DOS, stay away from VISTA. It makes things way too complicated, and you loose control over way too many aspects of your machine. Anyway, what do I know, I’m only a doctor.

85. Festus
    December 6th, 2006 | 22:00

    As mentioned above by a few people I don’t get the registry change either (says it’s not there). Could anyone please tell me what registry changes need to be made. The first part did not work and I would like to try manually.
    I have two puters, both Dells. 1 running Dell’s XP Pro and the other running a corp XP Pro (which is a clean install on D drive) and I can’t get it to work on either puter. I get the same registry error on both computers.
    On the XP corp (D drive) I need to edit the install file to direct it to the D drive registry. C drive has w98 on it but it autoboots into XP.
    Thanks for any help.

86. Festus
    December 6th, 2006 | 22:21

    Ok, did some digging after copying the CD to my hard drive. May have found what we are looking for.
    The file name is Autorun1.cmd and is in the MCE\I386\system32 folder. I’ve included the file in TXT format.

    cls

    @echo Loading the standard windows Registry
    reg load HKLM\Sys c:\windows\system32\config\system

    @echo Making Changes to the Registry
    reg add HKLM\Sys\WPA\MediaCenter
    reg delete HKLM\sys\WPA\MediaCenter /v Installed
    reg add HKLM\sys\WPA\MediaCenter /v Installed /t REG_SZ /d 1

    @echo
    @echo Done. After you press a key your computer will restart.
    @echo If you need to remove the cd to boot into windows remember to do so.
    @echo Remember to reboot after each step.

    pause
    reboot

    Hope this helps

87. Festus
    December 6th, 2006 | 22:54

    Another thing I just noticed. In the cmd taken from above it reads (sys)
    @echo Making Changes to the Registry
    reg add HKLM\Sys\WPA\MediaCenter

    I don’t have a sys in my registry but if I go to HKLM\System\WPA\MediaCenter in the reg its there. Colud this be causing our problems and if so, why do some systems have sys instead of system?

    Your turn! lol

88. Mike
    December 6th, 2006 | 23:36

    ’sys’ just acts as a variable in the script. It is assigned the c:\windows\system32\config\system hive in the first command. I had the same registry problem…

89. Saurav
    December 9th, 2006 | 08:43

    thanx

90. Beefteck
    December 12th, 2006 | 01:34

    so can this problem be fixed and can someone do it??? like add it up to the converter??? That would b sick

91. nzbloke
    December 13th, 2006 | 02:24

    Refering to the Rollup 2. It caused me no end of pain and searching but in the end, an earlier post #46 was correct. Install everything you can get off of the Microsoft site and then as if by magic it works, thanks.

92. Dazzler
    December 16th, 2006 | 21:19

    Hi Peeps, I have it all installed and i get the “…. can only be run on xp media….” error I notice that my registry is listing the HKLM\sys\WPA\MediaCenter\installed as value 0 when im guessing that this needs to be value 1? is that correct?

    the system will not let me edit this value in windows, is there any way that i can edit it outside of windows? i have vista dual booting, can i edit the XP registry from there?

    Thanks
    Dazzler

93. Dazzler
    December 16th, 2006 | 22:21

    ok thats a no! lol managed to edit the reg in vista, rebooted into xp and i get a product key error and it logs out….. if anyone has any other ideas on this please add em on!

    Dazzler

94. Festus
    December 17th, 2006 | 07:53

    Finaly got it to work. On boot to CD hit F6 and install ur drivers. Intel Ultra ATA storage controllers (SATA AHCI) in my case. DEll XPS with SATA drives.

    Works great but I would suggest truning off firewall/anti-virus during uinstall just to save some hassel.

    Lots of luck!

95. james
    December 20th, 2006 | 21:12

    hello
    still cant gt to it to do part one
    any other solutions.??

96. james
    December 20th, 2006 | 22:00

    hello?

97. james
    December 22nd, 2006 | 10:06

    heyy guys … you can do this.

98. Karin
    December 23rd, 2006 | 00:10

    This is how i installed RollUp 2 (KB900325) after getting error messages

    download KB900325 from MS or elsewhere. Unzip or unrar pakkage; once done..locate in ‘bin’ folder another kb900325 (selfextracting cab)….unzip or unrar…and you’ll find an ‘update’ folder, run the setup.exe that’s located in that folder.

    Worked for me…..hope it helps….

    Windows XP Home SP 2 (now with MCE….:-))

99. sounddie
    December 24th, 2006 | 12:31

    How do I download this file?????

100. kal
     December 24th, 2006 | 13:09

     how do u you do the boot up from cd part?

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