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May 27, 2007

Windows Vista - Manage Your Media Easily

If you have media on your PC such as videos, music , photos and download the occasional movie or TV show, Windows Media Center may be your one stop show to managing it all in one place.

PART 1 -Review
My first impression is, this is no iTunes, this is not meant to be a Adobe Photoshop and it is definitely not a DivX player. So what is this then you ask? Well let me start with some observations I had when I first looked at it. I introduce the basics of Windows Media Center

Attractive interface makes it easy to navigate to each area
Single spot to perform tasks such as DVD burn, create a slide show, edit a photo.
Ability to access online media (videos) such as TV, Movies and latest News
Widescreen support (for those who can afford a wide screen monitor)

There is a little of everything for everyone, however those without Vista Premium or Ultimate editions are out of luck since windows media center does not come bundled on other versions of vista.

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Windows Vista - Features Slowing You Down?

In earlier versions of Windows, to turn a feature off you had to uninstall it completely from your computer. In Windows Vista the features remain stored on your hard disk, so you can enable them back at anytime. Turning off a feature does not uninstall the feature,and reduce the amount of hard disk space. However it may improve performance due to memory and processor utilization no longer being allocated towards the particular feature. Below is the feature list, you can see which ones are enabled by default. For a detailed list of features please visit my list here.

If you want to disable unused features for example watch me tutorial below.