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I was going to unistall and re-install it. But it turns out that MS had the bright idea of incorporating MP into the operating system so it can not be removed - I'd have to remove and re-install Vista.
Im intrigued as to why you would want to uninstall it and resintall it? Has it sodded up or something?
You could just reinstall the drivers for it from microsh**e website but yes, Windows 7 is a hell of alot better than fista 
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I thought Vista had media Centre instead of media player. I used media centre to play all sorts of video and music codecs on an old work lappy and it was absolutely fine. Why mince about with VLC or WMP?
VLC rocks. It plays pretty much every format and it doesnt complain if the file is damaged or has a few second missing 
not only does it not throw a fit with obscure fileformats and codecs, it can also play .iso-s or rar-ed DVD rips. You can compensate for out of sync audio. greater subtitle control.
Vista has both WMP and the media centre [I think I've stmbled across that twice ever]
And then it's not tied into the OS so you don't get bothered by Windows for anything.
I like MPC myself, though have VLC for the odd occasion MPC can't deal wit a file.
Vista has both WMP and the media centre [I think I've stmbled across that twice ever]
And then it's not tied into the OS so you don't get bothered by Windows for anything.
I like MPC myself, though have VLC for the odd occasion MPC can't deal wit a file.
other problem I have with it is getting track and album info off CD - for some reason it will not speak to the internet to down load the stuff. Media Monkey seems to work OK though.
Mostly I use it for music so which would be the best option to use instead of WMP - Media Monkey, MPC or VLC?
Mostly I use it for music so which would be the best option to use instead of WMP - Media Monkey, MPC or VLC?
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VLC is very good for things like .FLV files off youtube. Lots of good free software out there if you are playing with video files, Handbrake, DVDflick, DVD decrypter and DVD shrink for instance.
Media Centre works very well, plug your xbox into your home network and it finds MC automatically so you can play your media files via the xbox.
Another vote for VLC media player; it's free and it's great.
Also ditching Vista and upgrading to Win 7 was a good move for me. I had so many problems with Vista it was driving me nuts. I even thought my motherboard was shot because the system kept rebooting for no reason.
Since I move up to Win 7 I've had no major problems, no reboots, blue screens of death, or even system crashes.
Also ditching Vista and upgrading to Win 7 was a good move for me. I had so many problems with Vista it was driving me nuts. I even thought my motherboard was shot because the system kept rebooting for no reason.
Since I move up to Win 7 I've had no major problems, no reboots, blue screens of death, or even system crashes.
Other backing stuff up on a external drive - anything else that needs doing when replacing Vista with 7?
Take note of saved passwords or any serial numbers from the registry. browser faves etc - always a pain to start from scratch
then it's just chill beer / breath a rioja sit back and enjoy
(Or am I alone in enjoying being elbow deep in componants? D: )
then it's just chill beer / breath a rioja sit back and enjoy
(Or am I alone in enjoying being elbow deep in componants? D: )
Ed, you can install 7 'over' Vista, you just put the disk in the drive and away you go. I did two 'clean' installs of 7, i.e. formatted the hard disks and installed and I've done one install over Vista and its been problem free. Still back up your data but try the simple install first.
Hard drives are really cheap now so I use my main drive for programme files and the second drive for data only (picures, documents, videos etc) and back up the data files to an external drive which does mean that if the poo hits the fan my data is secure and a clean install is simple. If you don't have a second drive then I recommend you get one.
I've got a second external 80GB drive that I was going to back up to. Its a laptop so fitting a second "internal" hard drive is not so easy.
To be honest I don't actually save that much data to the computer itself so the memory is more than enough for what I want.Although I might get a second eternal hard drive to dump lesser used "data" to.
To be honest I don't actually save that much data to the computer itself so the memory is more than enough for what I want.Although I might get a second eternal hard drive to dump lesser used "data" to.
