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Windows XP Media Center Edition - Compatibility, Minimum Requirements & Specifications

   

Below are the Windows XP Media Center Edition Compatibility, Minimum Requirements & Specifications, although it is recommended that you do increase this as it you will find the operating system quite slow, and lacking in space.

  

Minimum Requirements

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Windows XP Media Center Edition

 

Hardware Requirements (Basic)

2 Ghz processor or better (3+ Ghz if you plan to view WMVHD or ATSC HD)

512MB RAM

Primary Hard Disk Drive (Minimum 20 GB) for operating system and applications.

Secondary Hard Disk Drive (Minimum 80 GB) for storage. (The illustrations in this document are representative of what you will see with two hard disks installed in the computer.)

Media Center compatible TV tuner / encoder.

Media Center compatible display adapter.

Media Center Remote Control and IR Transceiver

Hardware Requirements (Indepth)

 

Minimum:
1.6 GHz CPU *
256 MB of RAM *
30 GB of available hard disk space (Mobile Systems) *
60 GB of available hard disk space (Non-Mobile Systems) *
64 MB DDR 4x AGP DirectX 9 graphics card *
1024 x 768 Resolution (4:3 aspect ratio)
1280 x 720 Resolution (Widescreen aspect ratio)
DVD drive (Must read DVDs at 4x and CDs at 16x speed)
Keyboard and Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device
Internet Connection:
(Either a Hardware 56 Kbps Modem, Integrated Broadband modem, 100BaseT or Wireless 802.11b Network Adapter)

Maximum:
2 Physical CPUs (Multi-Core + Hyper-threading supported)
4 GB of RAM
4 GB of Virtual Memory

4 GB FAT16 Partition
32 GB FAT32 Partition (Formatted during Setup)
2 TB FAT32 Partition
2 TB NTFS Partition (Basic Volume)
16 TB minus 64 KB NTFS Partition (Dynamic Volume - 4 KB Cluster Size)
256 TB minus 64 KB NTFS Partition (Dynamic Volume - 64 KB Cluster Size)

2 GB FAT16 File Size
4 GB FAT32 File Size
2 TB NTFS File Size (Basic Volume)
16 TB minus 64 KB NTFS File Size (Dynamic Volume - 4 KB Cluster Size)

4 TV tuners, 2 NTSC Standard tuners and 2 ATSC HD TV Tuners (Supported in MCE Rollup 2)

Recommended Options:
TV tuner card (Hardware MPEG-2 Decoder)
MCE Compatible Remote Control

* Actual requirements may vary based on system configuration and the applications and features you choose to install. Some functionality such as Media Center Extender support, use of multiple tuners, or HDTV playback/recording carries higher system requirements.

 

Upgrade Compatibility

 

Microsoft Windows XP MCE Upgrade Compatibility 

Media Center Edition Edition
   

Windows 3.11

No

Windows 95

No

Windows 98

Yes

Windows ME

Yes

Windows NT Work Station 3.X

No

Windows NT Work Station 4.0 Requires Service Pack 6+

Yes

Windows 2000 Pro

Yes

Windows 2000 Server

No

Windows XP Professional

No

Windows XP Home

No

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