Thanks. I guess it will be okay, until I run into a situation where it's not okay. Hopefully, not at the worse possible time.

>As long as you do not have to join a domain...
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>http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/mediacenter/evaluation/faq.mspx
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>While you can access network resources on a work network or a domain, you cannot join a Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 PC to the domain. PCs running Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 are designed specifically for home use. Windows XP Professional features, specifically Domain Join and Cached Credentials (Credentials Manager for logons) are not included. As a result, you will be prompted for your logon user name and password to access network resources after you reboot or log back on to the PC. In addition, file shares or network resources that are set to require a domain-joined PC for access will not be available. Remote Desktop and Encrypting File System support are still included.
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>>Can you share some of the other ways. I'm getting a laptop later this week with MCE 2005. I was planning on doing a dual boot for when I need to attach to the network. But if you have a better idea......
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>>>>Is the XP Media Center Editing XP Pro on steroids or XP Home on steroids?
>>>>What I really need to know is, if I can install IIS on a PC running XP Media Center Edition or not?
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>>>>Thanks,
>>>>Einar
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>>>Good news for you then. XP Media Center is indeed XP Pro.
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>>>The only weird thing is if you want to join it to a domain. Micro$oft disabled the ability to join a domain with it because of the ability to use the "Media Center Extenders". More good news is that there is a couple of very simple work arounds for that problem. One way is to do a clean install and join the domain as you do the fresh install, and there are other simple ways to do it even if you don't do a clean install.