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GALAXY-VOYAGER Send message Joined: 21 Oct 12 Posts: 85 Credit: 157,743 RAC: 0 |
I decided to upgrade my XP machine imitating a Media Center from XP to Windows 8 Pro. The offer is supposed to end the 31st. I found you can also get a Free upgrade to Windows Media Center right now as well. It has to be better than the ATI Media Center from 2007 I'm using. What about the C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BOINC Folder in XP? Can I just copy it to another hard-drive and then place it in Windows 8, in the proper location, before installing BOINC? I have set 'no new tasks' but it looks like it will be a couple days before the existing tasks are finished. I've already downloaded the upgrade and I'm ready now... Refer to EDITED Version ..... Cheers :-) GALAXY-VOYAGER |
GALAXY-VOYAGER Send message Joined: 21 Oct 12 Posts: 85 Credit: 157,743 RAC: 0 |
I decided to upgrade my XP machine imitating a Media Center from XP to Windows 8 Pro. The offer is supposed to end the 31st. I found you can also get a Free upgrade to Windows Media Center right now as well. It has to be better than the ATI Media Center from 2007 I'm using. What about the C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BOINC Folder in XP? Can I just copy it to another hard-drive and then place it in Windows 8, in the proper location, before installing BOINC? I have set 'no new tasks' but it looks like it will be a couple days before the existing tasks are finished. I've already downloaded the upgrade and I'm ready now... GALAXY-VOYAGER |
TBar Send message Joined: 22 May 99 Posts: 5204 Credit: 840,779,836 RAC: 2,768 |
The Computer Specs are in the first link of the first post. Task Manager says it's using 50% of the installed RAM while running 1 CPU & 2 GPU SETI tasks and also playing a video in WMP. Considering the Board will support 16GB of RAM, I don't think there would be a problem bumping it up to the limit of 4GB if needed. I don't see any need, it's a Media Center PC and seems to work just fine. The only problem I had was with the nVidia fiasco with Windows 8 and their drivers. I will probably reinstall Catalyst Media Center as it offers easy access to the 3 different input sources from my ATI Theater card. Apparently I was wrong thinking there couldn't be Media Center software worse than ATIs. |
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