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Windows XP Media Center Edition on iMac?


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That's right. Follow the MCE version of the XOM install instructions - that shows you how to combine the 2 MCE CDs into one DVD. Essentially, it just involves copying the contents of both discs to a burn folder, and then modifying the txtsetup.sif file in the \i386 directory to remove the references to the second disc. So the Windows Installer will never ask you for the second disc and will successfully copy all the files over.

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Thanks for the ideas now does it make sense to purchase MCE for XP or Vista when it comes out next year? Besides the fact that Vista MCE will have plenty of bugs the first couple of months/year or so is their any advantage to validate an XP MCE purchase NOW?

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How would one go about remaping Apple Remote?

 

Could it be done on Windows level or a plug-in for Media Center would be needed?

 

With a plug-in one could hypothetically get "contextual mapping", i.e. have remote keys doing different things depending on what Media Center is doing, but it is not worth writing one if it is possible to remap Apple Remote to cursor keys within Windows.

 

Clearly, 5 buttons is not enough. Any chances of using Media Center Remote with Mini's internal IR-receiver? Media Center Remote's IR-dongle is ugly, but works. It would be cool if one could use Microsoft remote with Mini's internal IR. Any technical reasons why it would be impossible?

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Clearly, 5 buttons is not enough. Any chances of using Media Center Remote with Mini's internal IR-receiver? Media Center Remote's IR-dongle is ugly, but works. It would be cool if one could use Microsoft remote with Mini's internal IR. Any technical reasons why it would be impossible?

 

The only way to look at using other remotes with Apple IR-receiver for now is on OSX, but IR stuff is buried very deep inside OSX. So how would one use other remotes on OSX with Apple IR-receiver?

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As a heads up when merging the two CDs you don't have to make any files edits like in the XOM version. Reason the XOM version was edited was because it needed the XOM Video Driver and the SATA driver loaded during initial install. Bootcamp versions don't need this. Just copy the contents to 1 DVD and you are set.

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You need to edit it slightly, just to remove references to the second disk so the installer doesn't ask for the second disk and copies it all from the DVD.

 

Actually you shouldn't even need to do that. If you look at a regular Windows XP Disc it references a 2nd CD too but it always checks the first CD anyway. I never edited out the CD2 references when I edited the SIF for the XOM version of the MCE DVD Install...at least I think I didn't.

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