Can MCE2005 be clipped?

[cutie_pyie]

Hi Guys & other Gals,

I have a Dell E310 PC that came with MCE 2005 installed, but it has NO TV card, it has integrated audio and video, only a CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive, (hence, I can't burn DVDs!). It will NOT be used for any other Media Center stuff as I have remove/gotten rid of the dancing girl, and all the Sonic pgms. I plan to install Nero pgm for burning CDs.

I only surf the web, email, download P2P music, and do word processing, plus the occassional spread sheet, etc.

I have noticed that MCE2005 takes up almost twice the HDD space as a regular install of Win XP Pro SP2.

My system as it stands now has installed in addition to MCE2005:

1.) Update Rollup 2 (900325), which add/remove Pgms says is removable;

2.) KB908250, is an Update Rollup that resolves issues with Update Rollup 2 900325, which add/remove Pgms says can NOT be removed;

3.) KB908246, which add/remove Pgms says is removable;

I have read the info on 900325 & 908250 and they contain nothing that I believe I need on my system.

I question the one item in 900325 that states "Media Center now includes a configurable optimization option to make sure that your Media Center computer continues to run smoothly." Since this is rather ambiguous, and I don't know where or how to set the "configurable optimization", I feel I really don't need 900325.

My questions:

1.) Should I remove 900325 and if I do will it have any negative impact on my system?

2.) If I remove 900325, I just have to leave 908250 on my system?

3.) Does anyone know what 908246 does? MS site states it is not available! Shud I just remove it and again if I do will it have any negative impact on my system?

Thanks for you help in this!

Sincerely,

CP

[vinodh]

If you don't plan to use MCE, then remove all MCE updates and hotfixes. KB900325 is Update Rollup 2, which is a MCE update only. Your system will then be the same as XP Pro. Just make sure you keep up to date with the regular XP updates.