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Dell Media Direct

dulpit · 2007-08-29 16:48:09

What the hell is it? It's on my Dell laptop (came preinstalled) only found it cos i pressed a button on my keyboard, just to see what it does (it's a picture of a little house...) It seems to be fairly similar to windows media centre, am i right? also, can i safely get rid of it? (why do i need it when i have to windows…

29-08-2007 4:48pm

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What the hell is it? It's on my Dell laptop (came preinstalled) only found it cos i pressed a button on my keyboard, just to see what it does (it's a picture of a little house...)

It seems to be fairly similar to windows media centre, am i right? also, can i safely get rid of it? (why do i need it when i have to windows stuff already?)

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#2 29-08-2007 5:41pm

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Its basically the Dell version of Windows Media Player. Its a load of rubbish tbh. I uninstalled mine with no ill effects

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#3 29-08-2007 5:43pm

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It'll take up a couple of gigs in it's own partition on your hard drive as well. I formatted my laptop the moment I got it to get rid of all that crap so I've no idea what it's like.

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#4 29-08-2007 7:35pm

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It will allow you to view photos, play videos and CD's without booting into windows. Basically it's a media centre.

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#5 30-08-2007 1:22pm

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Thanks all, uninstalling it tonight so...

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