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    Question Making MCE start with a normal desktop

    I understand that MCE boots with the MCE media menu, how can i set it to just load on the desktop like xp home/pro does?

    Reason i ask is my parents have just purchased a dell machine and i think media centre will just confuse things.

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    It doesn't unless Dell have done something funky and put it in the start menu. By default MCE2005 just boots to the desktop.

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    you can have it booting straight into media center or the normal desktop!

    its easy to change just open the mediacenter go to settings then general and its the first option on the list!

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    Yep, you can make it appear just like XP all the time if MCE is too confusing as leeglf says. Settings screen on MCE.

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    Thanks all

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