XP Virtual in W-7 Home premium - HELP
May 22, 2012 23:01:19 #
W-7 Home Premium did not come with warnings of the CURSE that "Thou Shall Not Benefit From Your XP Programs" nor be able to able to install Virtual XP.... "Lest Ye Buy an UPGRADE"
What workaround will work?... is there a 3rd party addon? I am with out scruples when it comes to MS since they have taken the first blow and it was below the bottom like belt!!
What workaround will work?... is there a 3rd party addon? I am with out scruples when it comes to MS since they have taken the first blow and it was below the bottom like belt!!
May 22, 2012 23:17:22 #
Xp mode is only available in PRO and Ultimate versions of windows 7. You must buy the upgrade.
May 23, 2012 05:33:01 #
darkmanCANADA wrote:
Xp mode is only available in PRO and Ultimate versions of windows 7. You must buy the upgrade.
You sound like a priest of the "Holly Redmond Church" but I assure you that it is known that there are "virtual XP" work-around. I in a sense would like to know which is the better and if there is a low cost 3rd party addon.
One of the from-MS-Upgrade-Evils is that it would wipe away all the Programs I have installed. Those from Giveawayoftheday.com would be lost and if purchased would amount to a tidy sum. It is not like OK here MS is money, please send me an unlock code. This is especially true with my Laptop that did not come with disks for pre-installed programs. Yes, I have made a back-up, but that would just reinstall the home premium W7 that I have.
May 23, 2012 07:55:27 #
I have Windows 7 Home Premium on my laptop as well as my older desktop and all my old XP programs work just fine on them, including Office 2000. Have you downloaded the latest updates from Microsoft?
May 23, 2012 08:53:43 #
Yep shooter, set up on auto.. but will do a manual upgrade incase something was optional... did install patch 1, but will check. An old W-98 program installed but only after 3 tries.. MGI Photosuit 4. Great little program, dumb and says yes sir as you requested vs modern well what you really want is....
May 23, 2012 09:13:01 #
You could also partition your hard drive install XP in d-drive once XP is installed you can install Win-7 in c-drive then when windows boots it will ask if you want to run Win-7 or an older version of Windows
May 23, 2012 09:18:16 #
Yes, Bjor, that is indeed perhaps what I may have to do. There are some prog that will partition without destroying the W-7. I have my copy of XP Pro.
May 23, 2012 10:50:01 #
The XP is a 32 bit while the W 7 is a 64 bit. XP stuff will/should go into W 7 with no problem but W 7 will not go into XP. Good luck.
May 23, 2012 11:21:36 #
prestonphoto wrote:
The XP is a 32 bit while the W 7 is a 64 bit. XP stuff will/should go into W 7 with no problem but W 7 will not go into XP. Good luck.
I believe that Win 7 is both 32 and 64.
May 23, 2012 11:22:20 #
I am able to run XP under vmware and virtualbox, two virtual "machines". Although I do that under Linux, I am pretty sure that both vmware (their free "player") and virtualbox, both of which emulate a computer running under a host operating system, such as Windows 7, are available for Windows.
Check them out at:
http://www.vmware.com/products/player/overview.html
and
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
So, basically, I run XP (or Windows 7) operating systems in a virtual machine under my host operating system, which happens to be Linux. It works very well. Installed XP from my original CD.
Check them out at:
http://www.vmware.com/products/player/overview.html
and
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
So, basically, I run XP (or Windows 7) operating systems in a virtual machine under my host operating system, which happens to be Linux. It works very well. Installed XP from my original CD.
May 23, 2012 11:27:36 #
dpullum wrote:
W-7 Home Premium did not come with warnings of the CURSE that "Thou Shall Not Benefit From Your XP Programs" nor be able to able to install Virtual XP.... "Lest Ye Buy an UPGRADE"
What workaround will work?... is there a 3rd party addon? I am with out scruples when it comes to MS since they have taken the first blow and it was below the bottom like belt!!
What workaround will work?... is there a 3rd party addon? I am with out scruples when it comes to MS since they have taken the first blow and it was below the bottom like belt!!
Try this work around.
Find the .exe file for the program.
Right-click and choose properties.
Click on the "compatibility" tab.
In the "Compatibility Mode" box, select the version of Windows you had before from the drop down. If that selection doesn't work try a different one.
I use Eudora as my email program. Love it. Didn't want to work in Win 7. I researched the solution and found out about this work-around.
Notes:
I upgraded to Win 7 Pro, so that may not be an option for your version but it's worth a look.
The only thing missing from Eudora is Help, which I don't use anyway.
May 23, 2012 12:47:22 #
dpullum wrote:
W-7 Home Premium did not come with warnings of the CURSE that "Thou Shall Not Benefit From Your XP Programs" nor be able to able to install Virtual XP.... "Lest Ye Buy an UPGRADE"
What workaround will work?... is there a 3rd party addon? I am with out scruples when it comes to MS since they have taken the first blow and it was below the bottom like belt!!
What workaround will work?... is there a 3rd party addon? I am with out scruples when it comes to MS since they have taken the first blow and it was below the bottom like belt!!
Check the compatability, it should work, like Indi said.
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