Windows media centre

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deebs

Windows media Centre is a very pleasant piece of kit.

It sounds nice, looks nice and does things very well indeed.

On the other hand:

a - on a dual monitor arrangement the mouse cursor seems confined to the
monitor with WMC active (I could select stuff to play on one monitor and do
productive stuff on the other)

and

b - some settings/options eg to play visual stuff as sounds were playing,
seemed to struggle between desktop background and the visual effect creating
a stuttering onscreen that was unpleasant

c - otherwise brilliant!

using RC1 (build 5600) on AMD 4800+ dual with two monitors and a bit of
other stuff :)

Q: are these reasonable things to observe at this stage of the roll out?
 
Similar observations using WMC in Vista 32 bit (build 5600)

Starting and using WMC on a dual monitor constrains mouse pointer to the
monitor running WMC.

Consequently stuff on the other monitor cannot be accessed (just in case one
wishes to work while WMC is playing)

With apologies for the typo in previous post and corrected below...
 
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