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Quickbooks won't load on Windows XP Media Center Edition

I have a client with a Dell Inspiron E1505 running Windows XP MCE. She's trying to run Quickbooks Pro and it loads for a brief moment and then goes away.

Now typically I'd kill pop-up blockers, anti-virus, anti-spam, etc., yeah, none of that worked. Booted into Safe Mode, didn't work. Ran as Administrator (the user account is an admin anyway), didn't work. Booted into Safe Mode w/Network Support just for the heck of it, didn't work.

I can kill every process but the core system processes (explorer, winlogon, sms, etc) and still nothing.
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meechp123,

The following links may be of use:

http://www.quickbooks.com/support/faqs/qb2006/20ffaac7.html

http://search.intuit.com/KCS/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=http--wwwquickbookscom-support-faqs-qb2005-310632html&sliceId=&dialogID=38616544

However, please also note the following quote at http://search.intuit.com/KCS/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=http--wwwquickbookscom-support-faqs-qb2006-cb099a00html&sliceId=&dialogID=38616913  :

"QuickBooks 2006 is only supported on Microsoft® Windows® 2000, Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003, or Microsoft® Windows XP. It is not supported on any other operating systems."

cheers,
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have you tried to install to another computer --does it work?
try pulling the software to the desktop and load from there.
Windows media is a TV-VCR-gaming-video-entertainment system, meant for those uses.
IT IS NOT DESIGNED FOR BUSINESS APPLICATIONS !!!

QB is a full fledged business application.  Tell her to run it on a BUSINESS computer, say running windows XP.

Then it will work flawlessly ... but NOT on MEDIA CENTER -- it is a home entertainment clone/duplicate OS.
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Thanks for the help.