However if you do this it will most likely invalidate your warranty - however it is still an option. Wednesday, May 6, PM. How stupid is that!
The whole point of XP mode is application compatibility to lure people away from XP native - if this is going to be the experience on most hardware Windows 7 is going to die a death like Vista because of people being so angry at the hype. Come on MS get you act together - either produce an XP mode that works on all hardware but can be accelerated by Hyper-V CPUs if available or else drop the idea altogether because if you don't it is just going to be yet another bloodied nose!
Almost all the new procesors today support Virtualization, also its not a bad idea to focus in that option for a "virtualized" Windows XP, you can not blame a company if they make their software compatible with old hardware but some things dont work cuz that same reason, instead you should give props for making it run smooth on it.
The first one lets you run installed application virtually, where-as the 2 laters don't. I would disagree with you there, there are still alot of processors today that do not support virtualisation. We've purchased 25 laptops and the Intel dual core processors in them even though they, the CPU, were make this year 1st Q do not support virtualisation. That may be true but as I understand the whole point of XP mode was to allow business users currently using Windows XP to upgrade to Windows 7 without having to spend a fortune on new software.
Can MS really assume that all of these users are using PCs that were bought within the last few months not that it would guarantee them compatibility anyway. How do they benefit if they upgrade to Windows 7 and are then told they have to replace all of their computers in order to use the XP Mode? The whole thing is a red herring as far as I can see and a marketing gimmick that will seriously backfire if MS aren't really careful.
The reason Vista wasn't adopted by business was lack of support for aging software saying that you have to upgrade all of your hardware in order to maintain backwards compatibility is just plain stupid. The only thing that will be worse is when comapnies see this feature and start to tentatively upgrade only to find it doesn't waor at all! I seriously think the way to go is virtualisation for backward compatibility and I have been shouting it since before Vista was released.
The biggest problem with windows is having to attempt to maintain backwards compatibility back to Windows The virtualisation has to be seemless for all though. A much better solution would have been "XP Mode makes use of hardware virtualisation support when available" but not make it absolutely essential to upgrade hardware to get it to run.
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Incorrect instructions. Too technical. Not enough information. It appears like any other window on your desktop and taskbar. The only way you can tell it is running in the XP Virtual Machine in the background is by the XP visual style that surrounds the window. Microsoft has a helpful tool that will detect if your hardware is compatible called the HAV Detection Tool. On some computers the feature may be turned off in the BIOS, click here for instructions on how to turn it on.
Update: The latest version of Windows Virtual PC removes the hardware-assisted virtualization requirement. All users can now run XP Mode! After installing the Virtual PC component you will need to reboot.
Next, you will need to specify the password for the local account XPMuser that runs in the XP virtual machine. Type in a password in both boxes and click Next. XP Mode runs a fully functional Windows XP virtual machine in the background so it must be patched every month as new security updates are released to keep applications running in the VM protected.
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