Do you use Dell Media Direct?

Simple question, yes or no?

 

No, I prefer Windows Media Center, and even that I do not use that much. I am acctually planning on completely removing my Media Direct partition tomorrow as it is a waste of space on my HDD and I have never once booted to it.

 

Yes, but only when I watch dvd's.

 

Nope..Caused too many *issues* when I first received my 1530...that it's gone now.

 

What exactly is Dell Media Direct?

Short story - My friend has had a Dell Inspiron laptop for about a year now. And by accident I turned on DMD instead of Windows. I asked him what I did wrong, and he asked me "what is that?" :smile:

 

Here is a linky for an exact definition for you from Dells site...(some like this)

http://support.dell.com/support/top...5D776B2DC5763E030030ABD620CAD&c=us&l=en&s=gen

Basically it is for fast/quick access to *multimedia* etc. Such as: music, videos, slide shows (photo), and has an Instant Office Future...Supposed to be *one touch access*.

Another multi-media for instance, such as.... *Windows Media Center*

Hope that helps

 

Thanks I just read through that.

But does it use less battery power due to the fact that you don't need to power on the system?

It seems as I can just as easily open pics in vista and watch movies in WMP. Seems pointless to me.

 

Yea I never use it either. Can I just go to disk management right click it and delete the volume?

 

If they added a word processor or a web browser to it I would definatly use it more.

 

Sorry, I didnt get that far with MD, as it caused so many *issues* for me at the beginnning, that I became frustrated and *removed* it.

Perhaps others can answer that question, that are actively using it, for you


Cin'

 

Media Direct is just XP embedded, a reduced form of XP that Dell can customize(like removing certain applications/drivers that dont pertain to the functionality of MD)

that saying, someone here figured out a way to start explorer.exe on MEdia Direct and launch his own applications/browser.... but this is a reduced form of XP, would u even want to run a browser on it without firewall/antivirus

(and my answer is no, i used MD's HDD space for a better use)

 

i use it sometimes but most of the time i just use Windows Media Center to play DVDs and Media Files

 

I haven't used it yet so far, only used once just to see what it looks like. For some reason the office only shows up with Contacts and no sort of word processing, excel,etc. Not too sure how to add that functionality in.

 

I bought my XPS for watching movies and playing games (solely)

I though MD would be great, but its just more crap bloatware that dell put on.

Its a good idea but just another program on my Laptop

Tried it once had a problem as it would not play a region 2 store bought dvd

Guess what I live in a Region 2 zone, whats up with that.

Took it all off on full re-install, I hate dell for all the bagage they gave me, I could not even get a girlfriend cause I had so much bagage. LOL

(Things are looking up now that im clean) ha ha

 

I removed mine w/in 2 days of receiving my 1530...it caused major probs on my 1530, and found it more of a hassle..now I extra room, and I'm happy :yes:

Hey, like you said.....*your clean now* lol

Cin

 

had MD for roughly half a day, then deleted the partition (along with reformatting the laptop)

 

I just formatted my Media Direct partition today, and then merged the partition with my OS partition, giving my main partition an extra 2.5GB of space.

For those of you thinking of doing this and wondering how it affects the Media Direct button...when I press the Media Direct button it shows the Media Direct logo for a second, and then just boots into Vista when it realizes there is not Media Direct partition.

 

I think that its a nice thought . . . however it doesn't really make a hell of a lot of sense when 'media' players are so abundant and easy to use these days. It clashes with their Dell dock idea also. If it didn't need / use its own 3 Gb (wow) partition, I might keep it around as an interesting app. However, since this comp came with about 30 gig of bloat as it was (I think I did a reinstall once and got down to 11 gb) I have decided that I would much rather get my HDD space back then put up with yet another huge media manager.
A better "value added" solution? Put some Graphics cards in there that don't overheat and die. : )

 

Me too. And I went one step further and made it so that I could start ubuntu with the Media Direct button. That took me 4 days to figure out.

 

I use it but not without hacking. I've installed codec to watch MP4 video.