Re:That explains a lot (Score 1)

Seriously how old is your XP computer. I recently bought a mid-level MCE XP pc, and I was concerned that the MCE functionality might slow down the system too much, but it has no effect on the peformance. In fact I've been able to record tv program's, burn a dvd, all while doing real dev work. I'm a dev for Microsoft by the way, but like I said, I'd expect all moderen OS's on reasonable hardware to do the same thing.