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vinodh, I disabled the services, I think only 1 or 2 were active, and I have never opened Media Center, but I would prefer to never even install that part of the OS. My version has 3 disks; the install routine is disk 1, disk 2, back to 1, then disk 3 which supposedly installs all the Media Center components. Has anyone with this version tried skipping disk 3? Does that leave you with a fully functional XP Pro? My suspicion is that Microsoft would break such a simple solution, but I would love to hear from anyone that has tried, either successful or not. TIA, BC

Two questions really: I bought MCE but decided I hate Windows Media Center. Can I just install XP Pro without Media Center (I plan on using Media Portal)? If I wanted to build a slipstream disk would I use the instructions from the XP forum, or are there additional steps since I'm using MCE disks? TIA, Brett