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Windows XP/2000 - [Disscussion please read] Windows XP MCE posted in the Operating Systems forums; I just found the restore disc for my computers XP MCE 2005, and i noticed that everything runs much faster than on XP home. online videos, WMP11, all use much ...

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I just found the restore disc for my computers XP MCE 2005, and i noticed that everything runs much faster than on XP home. online videos, WMP11, all use much less processor usage than previously. As an example, watching a video on youtube used to use roughly 15% CPU, not it uses 0-7%. is MCE more optimized for that sort of thing, utilizing SSE, SSE2, SSE3 better than other versions of Windows XP. please post thoughts, opinions.


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Perhaps the computer you're using for that might be low-end for Media Center Edition. Even my Pentium II Desktop runs at 0% CPU for those types of processes when I was experimenting with XP Home on it.


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huh? no. Before, i had XP Home, and Multimedia apps used much more CPU usage than they do now on XP MCE. actually lol, my first computer that i put together myself a year ago used a 400mhz PII with 256MB PC133, and a Voodoo 3 video card. lol it was on a... Tyan? yeah tyan board, with a VIA Apollo Pro133 chipset.. it ran XP home pretty good. lol i was amazed how well it ran considering.


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Did you format, or just install MCE over the top?
I know MCE is just an addon so if this is what you did, then you're correct - but i personally haven't heard if it's designed to be optimised for that sort of thing.


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well, what i did was, i found the 5 MCE restore discs, and restored it, with a backup of my previous stuff on teh HDD.


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Default Re: [Disscussion please read] Windows XP MCE

Yup...a restore is a reformat
Most likely it was just your drive needed a defrag, or there might have been some form of malware on there...maybe.

No performance optimisations in MCE


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