parishilton Posted August 11, 2009 Posted August 11, 2009 IMO Microsoft have missed a trick not offering a Media Centre specific edition of Win 7 - a version you could install on a dedicated media centre without having to install all the other stuff you are probably never going to use. As a complete novice my attempts at creating my own stripped down Media Centre version of Win 7 have so far been unsatisfactory and trying to reintroduce Media Centre into available presets by unselecting the dependencies highlighted by Vlite has not worked well either. I simply do not have the depth of understanding to create a greatly reduced Win 7 opperting system that is geared towards running Medica Centre. I am therefore starting this thread in the hope that those who are more knowledgeable and have been more successful than me might share their insights and make available any presets that they might have for others to try. I appologies in advance if this is a replication of an already existing thread that I am unaware of.
Winnydows 7 Posted August 16, 2009 Posted August 16, 2009 i will try it out and answer you after i got my win7 aio with custom software to work....
orangetriumph Posted August 18, 2009 Posted August 18, 2009 Good call. I am also interested in this too and have been spending many hours trying to understand what can and cannot be removed. I have a spare atom 330 with an 8gb IDE DOM and would like to bung in in my bedroom just to watch recorded tv and media from my WHS it will do nothing else.
_mouse_ Posted September 2, 2009 Posted September 2, 2009 Really interesting. I hope someone makes a good howto!My Rig (under construction)Gigabyte GA-MA785GT-UD3H, Sempron 140, Ballistix 1333 4GB CAS 6, 2*CompactFlash 4gb Raid0, FloppyDTV S2
MagicAndre1981 Posted September 2, 2009 Posted September 2, 2009 Simply use the Home Premium. This is the smallest edition which includes Media Center
_mouse_ Posted September 3, 2009 Posted September 3, 2009 Simply use the Home Premium. This is the smallest edition which includes Media CenterDid you know if someone have vLited the HP for a Htpc use?
TheTesterMan Posted October 3, 2009 Posted October 3, 2009 Yes, I am looking for the same... A very stripped down version of win7 which includes Media Center only.I am in the process of creating one, but will take time since I have much to learn.Tester
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