I was looking for a way to remove media center from vista so that I can
reduce the amount of space vista takes as well as get rid of unneeded
applications running in the back ground. We have many different machines
where I work and although a good majority are newer we have some older
machines that will still need to run vista when we decide to switch to it. I
have improved the performance already by getting rid of unneeded services but
one of the big ones I can not find a way to remove is media center. Is there
some way to uninstall it? If we standardize on Vista Ultimate is there a way
to do a custom install and have it never install in the first place?

Media Center does not take up any resources except disk space unless it's
running. If you don't want Media Center, get a build that does not include
it.

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"shall" wrote in message
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I was looking for a way to remove media center from vista so that I can
reduce the amount of space vista takes as well as get rid of unneeded
applications running in the back ground. We have many different machines
where I work and although a good majority are newer we have some older
machines that will still need to run vista when we decide to switch to it.
I
have improved the performance already by getting rid of unneeded services
but
one of the big ones I can not find a way to remove is media center. Is
there
some way to uninstall it? If we standardize on Vista Ultimate is there a
way
to do a custom install and have it never install in the first place?

"Richard G. Harper" wrote:

Media Center does not take up any resources except disk space unless it's
running.

that's not totally true because by default in the Ultimate Edition you have
Media Center services running

"BillD" wrote:



"Richard G. Harper" wrote:

Media Center does not take up any resources except disk space unless it's
running.

that's not totally true because by default in the Ultimate Edition you have
Media Center services running

I had already disabled the services for media center previously. Is that
all that remained running from it, from a fresh install?

As Richard suggested - consider one of the two business versions of Vista
which do not include "entertainment" functions - also cheaper than Ultimate.

"shall" wrote in message
...
I was looking for a way to remove media center from vista so that I can
reduce the amount of space vista takes as well as get rid of unneeded
applications running in the back ground. We have many different machines
where I work and although a good majority are newer we have some older
machines that will still need to run vista when we decide to switch to it.
I
have improved the performance already by getting rid of unneeded services
but
one of the big ones I can not find a way to remove is media center. Is
there
some way to uninstall it? If we standardize on Vista Ultimate is there a
way
to do a custom install and have it never install in the first place?