The MCP's job (at the moment) is to stop you seeing the classic windows interface and then seeing the skins applied to it in the background. It should pop up a loading screen instead and switch back to the actual desktop once all the skins hav been applied. Currently you have to tell Objectbar and/or DesktopX to load at startup before it will doe this. Once you have set this up on next reboot you should see the MCP doing it's thing.

Having said this it is very early days yet and bugs are still running around being squashed/ waiting to be squashed so it may not behave as described as yet.

The MCP will in time do a lot more which has not ben fully revealed (one thing that has is taking over trayservers job and ensuring all icons appear in the systray and that the language bar, window media player taskbar button thing is/are happy).

Actually it has worked very well for me so far, except when installed on my laptop.

This could very well be an issue with one of the IBM preloaded services for tech
support, IBM Active Support, or the system debug function that IBM also installs
with the OEM version of Windows XP.

Anyways, after removing the SDMCP by hand,everything worked fine. The only really
annoying thing was the fact that I could not for the life of me, get SDMCP from auto
loading OBar... no matter what I attempted, it did not stick and always loaded at
boot up and applied as it liked...

It does look to be interesting for sure, and also I think it will help in other areas
which need addressing, from the SD perspective as well as customers.

Keep on keeping on SD !!