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Windows Media Center for Xp or instal new OS?

  • 01-09-2011 2:44pm
    #1
    DY2011
    Closed Accounts Posts: 62 ✭✭


    Where and how can i download WMC 2005 or later to my computer? The reason i ask is because i am trying to put a web browser onto my xbox 360 and i need windows media center 2005 later to do that,some things on Google says i must have the operating system Windows Media Center Edition 2005 or something like that.If the OS is free and downloadable ill give it a shot,ill need some help though because my PC skills aint very good to be honest.Any help at all is appreciated thanks.


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  • #2
    Fysh
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 11,106 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fysh


    I'll be honest, I think your best bet might be to go to the Console Modding forum and read up about putting XBMC onto your Xbox.


  • #3
    DY2011
    Closed Accounts Posts: 62 ✭✭DY2011


    Fysh wrote: »
    I'll be honest, I think your best bet might be to go to the Console Modding forum and read up about putting XBMC onto your Xbox.

    Didn't really want to get into modding my Xbox,but i'll have a look into whats involved,Thanks.


  • #4
    Fysh
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 11,106 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fysh


    Windows XP Media Centre Edition 2005 was a version of XP geared around Home Theatre PCs. It's very unlikely to be legitimately available at all these days, since it would have been replaced by Vista and then 7. It's always been commercial software, so wouldn't have been legitimately available as a free download.

    I'm no expert on the XBox or 360, but from what little I've read about it you can do an awful lot with it if you're willing to physically mod it. There may be software-only ways of getting additional components like browsers onto it, but you'd be better off asking Xbox users for advice on how to proceed in that case...


  • #5
    DY2011
    Closed Accounts Posts: 62 ✭✭DY2011


    Fysh wrote: »
    Windows XP Media Centre Edition 2005 was a version of XP geared around Home Theatre PCs. It's very unlikely to be legitimately available at all these days, since it would have been replaced by Vista and then 7. It's always been commercial software, so wouldn't have been legitimately available as a free download.

    I'm no expert on the XBox or 360, but from what little I've read about it you can do an awful lot with it if you're willing to physically mod it. There may be software-only ways of getting additional components like browsers onto it, but you'd be better off asking Xbox users for advice on how to proceed in that case...

    Ah I see,so what OS would be next after XP that would have Windows Media Center on it? and would that be available as a free download? Thanks for your help Fysh.


  • #6
    Fysh
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 11,106 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fysh


    DY2011 wrote: »
    Ah I see,so what OS would be next after XP that would have Windows Media Center on it? and would that be available as a free download? Thanks for your help Fysh.

    There is a version of Media Center for Windows 7, but it's basically built into the OS and not available as a separate download as far as I know. The closest you could get is downloading the Software Development Kit from the Microsoft Download Centre, but I suspect that wouldn't be any use to you.


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  • #7
    Capt'n Midnight
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    You can take it for granted that there are no free downloads of windows apart from trial versions that expire if you don't buy a license. And even then it's usually limited to the latest versions.

    At a guess that edition was probably only OEM ?? and if so you could only use it on the machine it was supplied with.


  • #8
    xsiborg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,635 ✭✭✭xsiborg


    DY2011 wrote: »
    Where and how can i download WMC 2005 or later to my computer? The reason i ask is because i am trying to put a web browser onto my xbox 360 and i need windows media center 2005 later to do that,some things on Google says i must have the operating system Windows Media Center Edition 2005 or something like that.If the OS is free and downloadable ill give it a shot,ill need some help though because my PC skills aint very good to be honest.Any help at all is appreciated thanks.

    i think what you are looking for here OP is to use the Media Center Extender functionality of the xbox 360 and from there be able to browse the internet.

    the end result you are looking for, just isnt possible at the moment.

    that, unfortunately, is the short answer to your question.

    what OS do you have currently on your laptop or computer at the moment?


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