What OS are you running?

I'm running Windows XP MCE 2005 Roll-Up 2. It's not exactly the most stable OS I've used but its pretty fun to play with. People say MCE isn't very gaming friendly since it focuses mostly on multimedia. I can't tell the difference because I couldn't play games on my old PC which barely ran Windows XP/2000. Since I have two HDDs now I was thinking about installing Windows XP Pro on the other drive and duelboot to see how it would run games compared to MCE. However I'm not sure if its worth all the trouble, because I really like using MCE and the only game I play is World of Warcraft.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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I don't know if Media Center is based on Home or Pro, but I'm leaning towards Home.

Media Center is based on XP Pro 2002. As I said earlier it's a 'fun' OS to play with, but not as stable as XP Home or Pro. If you want to be able to use your PC like a DVR/DVD and record/watch TV/DVDs with it, MCE is the OS for you. It was built for multimedia purposes. The downside is all the neat little gadgets that come with MCE hog background resources, so you'll want a PC thats at least 2+GHz and has 1+GB of RAM if you plan on playing games with it too. I can post some screenshots if anyone wants to see what the Media Center interface looks like.

Also, alot of OEM PCs w/MCE come with problems out of the box. Theres a hardware glitch that causes MCE to crash/freeze while you're watching TV/Recorded TV and no one knows a real solution to fix it. Theres a Windows Update that claims to fix this problem but for most people it makes it worse or doesn't fix it at all. My PC came with this problem and I wasn't able to fix it until after reinstalling MCE for the third time and reinstalled the update.

There's nowhere I can't reach.