Comments on: Windows XP Mode Internals – Part 1 (Overview)

By: GinoLoto

GinoLoto — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:49:24 +0000

As stated by William Butler December 6, 2009 at 7:54 pm,

We are dealing with very expensive and specialised scientific equipement. Dual boot seems for the moment to be the alternative to some Win7 64-bit problem. We are trying to reinstall some instruments in University and it is a quite a challenge. The software keys (LPT port) are seen in the WP mode but doesn’t fonction in XP mode when it is quite easy to install on XP.

We have downgraded to Win7 32-bits for some computer because dual boot is difficult with multiusers.

By: GinoLoto

GinoLoto — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:28:00 +0000

# Abdel Valdes December 12, 2009 at 12:08 pm

Xp mode in win7 is far to be good. It does not detect all the capabilities that are in the main system, Win7. I had to install again the printer, in win7 I have 4 Gb RAM. XP mode detects only 512 MB!!! Now, when I try to install the video card nvidia 512 Mb I receive an error message…
I think that Microsoft should be able to fix this soon in order to satisfy people and enterprises needs…

Abdel, you can change the 512 mb on XP mode when XP is off by going in the XP virtual and in the settings, change the memory to what you want. It’s works fine.

Gino

By: monalisa

monalisa — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:58:26 +0000

Windows 7 With Windows XP Mode

http://www.tips29.com/2009/11/windows-7-with-windows-xp-mode.html

By: Kerron Martin

Kerron Martin — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 04:47:56 +0000

I’m running windows 7 professional and have installed virtual PC and XP mode but I’m unable to set the display resloution higher that 16bits in xp mode.
Any help woud be greatly appreciated.

Kerron

By: Russell

Russell — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:40:22 +0000

I have upgraded from Windows 7 Premium to Professional, gone into BIOS and enabled virtulazation mode, yet when I go to microsofts download site for XP Mode and Virutual Mode and click on “Download XP Mode” it takes me to next window stating windows cannot open this window. I have so much software for my business (recording studio) that has not been updated to work with Windows 7 64bt. I am desperate to get this to work. Any answers will be greatly appreciatted.

May God Bless Your Day,
Russell

By: Praveen

Praveen — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:19:27 +0000

will all windows xp drivers (my old tuner card, creative 5.1 live card, scanner drivers) installed in xp mode? please.

By: Abdel Valdes

Abdel Valdes — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:08:46 +0000

By: William Butler

William Butler — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:54:10 +0000

I’m less pleased with the XP Mode incarnation of Virtual PC than with previous version. While it now allows better access to installed hardware, audio and video functionality are sub par. Sound is choppy, graphics are relegated to a 16 bit color depth and video playback of even small, simple files is horrible (at best). It seems obvious MS wants the world to migrate away from XP apps in that respect. If your XP-only apps don’t require any of those features, it seems to run “far”.

Bob Luey: Your text based Quicken 7 should work in Windows XP Mode the same as in real XP. Any computer able to handle Windows 7 should have no problem working with the text based application.

Ann Su: You should be able to go into Integrated Features (under Settings on the virtual machine), enable the printer and use what’s already installed under Windows 7.

Larry Smith: I ported an old XP VM (which I’d been using in Vista) over to VPC7 and it ran fine. In fact, until I enabled the “Integrated Features” that allows access to USB devices and other hardware outside the VM environment, it actually had 32 bit color depth and ran more smoothly than the supplied XP Mode machine.

All-in-all, I’ll stick with my dual-boot configuration for access to XP. XP Mode simply doesn’t meet my needs for day-to-day use.

By: Joe Lucca

Joe Lucca — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:14:36 +0000

I have a photo printer that does not have Win 7 drivers and the manufacturer has anounced it will not release any since it is now discontinued. Will the XP and 32 bit Vista driver work if installed under in XP mode? Thanks.

By: Ann Su

Ann Su — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:37:08 +0000

Successfully installed an XP Property Management program in Windows 7 XP mode. Problem: cannot print checks now. Need printer driver. Question: do install the printer driver while in XP mode? Will printer still work in Windows 7 if I install printer driver in XP mode? Please help. Thank you.

By: Alan Albright

Alan Albright — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:13:49 +0000

I have messed up the credentials used to access Windows XP Mode. I tried using my network login instead of the default and that didn’t work. Does anyone know what the default domain and username are? I know the password.

Thanks,

Alan

By: Bob Crabtree

Bob Crabtree — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:20:18 +0000

What’s the score on using pre-existing virtual machines (such as Win 98SE or Linux) created on older versions of Virtual PC within the new Virtual PC?

Bob C

By: Roger Hass

Roger Hass — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:22:37 +0000

Seems a lot of interpretive explanations for “Windows XP Mode” what is in fact simply the means to run XP Programs that are not compatible in windows 7.

Obviously you only qualify for Windows XP Mode if you have purchased Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, or Ultimate, and yes, although not given to you, the installation automatically has an XP ID and is loaded with a Key for the Windows XP Pro SP3 installation for Windows XP Mode.

However at the end of the day, all it is and achieves is, what “Compatibility Mode” did in Vista and the result is the same! i.e. allows you to run 3rd party XP only compatible programs in a Windows 7 environment that are not compatible in Windows 7 !

This could also have come about because someone forgot to put “Compatibility Mode” in Windows 7, so as an after thought they invented a new method of doing the same and called it “Windows XP Mode”

And the rest is Microsoft Marketing Propaganda and Hype to ween you completely of XP and hope that the new exaggerations and claims of Windows 7, replacing the unpopular Vista and failed targeted sales, will now be recovered in Windows 7 launch, which in my mind is simply a SP for Vista with a new name!

BTW: The upgrade from XP Pro SP3 to Windows 7 is not worth the effort if you have a lot of 3rd party XP programs loaded! Strongly suggest that you check the Windows 7 compatibility of all your XP programs!

Happy Computing Folks.

By: Windows Xp mode et Windows 7 @ Richard Messier

Windows Xp mode et Windows 7 @ Richard Messier — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:02:16 +0000

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By: Bob Luey

Bob Luey — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:13:54 +0000

In preparation for possible upgrade to 64bit Windows 7 one of my concerns is my 16 bit text mode financial software- (Quicken 7 believe it or not). It works just fine (the Intuit people don’t believe this!) in an 32 bit XP command prompt and even prints to an network printer that it thinks is on LPT1 (@NET USE LPT1: \\RALUEY\HPLJP3005 /PERSISTENT:YES).

It sounds like Virtual XP may be the answer. Any feedback appreciated.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:51:06 +0000

I just installed the Virtual PC and then downloaded the Virtual XP. When I run the virtual machine for the first time, I see the EULA, user info and status bars. It take a very long time to run and would eventually fail with an error message. I saw on another site that if you press Control Esc, it will bring up the actual console view rather than the progress bars. This was somewhat helpful. I was able to see the Windows scripting window seemed to be stuck. So I simply closed the box and windows continued to load. I thought I was out of the woods… well the woods got bigger. When after I ran all the XP updates and restarted the virtual machine, it was like DeJaVu. The same EULA and progress bars came up again… So I think something wasn’t fully setup or saved properly. Anyone else having this sort of trouble? Solutions?

By: Dion

Dion — Fri, 08 May 2009 16:21:38 +0000

Is there a way to use XP compatible hardware in the XPmode? In 7’s device manager I see my custom HW board without a valid driver, when running in Virtual XP mode the board doesn’t show up in device manager. I understand I am looking at virtual drivers at this point, however, is there or will there be a way to install the XP driver in virutal mode?

Thanks,
Dion

By: Sharon Leung

Sharon Leung — Fri, 08 May 2009 12:33:25 +0000

Hi there,

I’ve downloaded the VPC and the XPMode, and I’m also sure that the virtualization is enabled in the bios.
After I 1st start the XPmode by clicking the link on the windows 7 start menu, and accepting the terms, entering the user name and password, as soon as it starts to configure, “setting up Virtual Windows XP for first use”, the process that was said to be not “speedy ” above, the whole Windows 7 just restarts. I’ve tried for at least 5 times and it does the same thing, keeps restarting. Can someone tell me what is the problem?

It would be great if I could get an email reply :sharonskleung@hotmail.com

thank you very much.

Sharon

By: Rben

Rben — Tue, 05 May 2009 19:34:08 +0000

Found it… just Disable/Enable Auto Publish in the VM settings. It’s strange however that the Applications Folder does not show up on first run although the Auto Publish option is enabled by default.

By: Rben

Rben — Tue, 05 May 2009 18:23:09 +0000

Lorloki, me meither and I am using the x64 bits. Did you find a way to enable it?

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Tue, 05 May 2009 15:46:02 +0000

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By: Avs

Avs — Mon, 04 May 2009 10:40:09 +0000

Awesome Post man

By: Drew

Drew — Sat, 02 May 2009 18:36:09 +0000

I’ve been pasting applications into the All Users Start Menu folder, and not all of them appear. Eg: Notepad, IE6, Firefox appears in Windows 7, But MSPaint, Minesweeper, and most the the default installed XP apps do not show up. How come?

By: Roberttt

Roberttt — Fri, 01 May 2009 23:47:28 +0000

I have a question… When you use Virtual PC to emulate Windows XP (or any other OS), your actual Hardware -does not- get emulated, and instead, the OS starts using the Virtual PC’s drivers (I.E. a Standard VGA video card which won’t support Direct3D, making XPM really useless to use for applications like AutoCad or Video Games).

Is this XPM going to use our actual Hardware (I.E. our nVidia or ATI videocard, sound card, etc) or will it be just another Virtual PC with Windows 7 integration capabilities?

See ya^^

By: lordloki

lordloki — Fri, 01 May 2009 21:53:31 +0000

I don’t seem to be getting the Virtual XP Applications folder … is there a way to force this? Or have I perhaps done something wrong?