Comments on: Windows XP Mode Internals – Part 2 (Application Publishing Magic)

By: Stefano

Stefano — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

I have many client (up to 5000) Windows 7 and i need to publish an older apps in xpmode.

I have build and test an xp machine with remote apps etc… it’s all ok.

Now i need to configure an autologon to this apps (service account). I need to delete the windows 7 authentication windows (when launch xpmode apps).

If i configure the autologon in windows xp the w7 auth windows appears and if you press cancel you can use correctly the apps (xp autologon works). How i can disable the w7 auth windows?

…. or ….

How i can autoconfigure (script?) the credential to access an xpmode machine?

Thnx all !

Stefano

By: feelit

feelit — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

I am not able to public remote desktop connection to windows 7. Has anyone else had this problem?

By: Nirandone

Nirandone — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

All of you running cisco ipsec, I am using shrew soft vpn client. It’s free. It can use the Cisco .pcf file. The development releases work with W7 x64 (and beware the stable relase as it BSOD’s. I wasn’t paying attention and it doesn’t say it supports 7 so I experienced it myself :p ).
And I think it’s faster than the Cisco client, at least logging on is way faster than when I was using the cisco client. But I am comparing between two different OS’es so many things differ, the first one with XP being our corporate image that the desktop team managed to make slow as hell :D

By: smu johnson

smu johnson — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

This is great and all, unfortunately every tutorial on the internet only shows the most basic example, of dragging Internet Explorer on there, or installing a program with an install manager.

What happens when you want to run a shortcut of a program that is on a mounted network drive? Because the Virtual XP won’t bother with shortcuts, doing this little publishing trick is impossible where it is needed most.

Same thing happens when you make a shortcut to something like Microsoft Hearts game.

Perhaps I’m missing something, but unfortunately from my Googling, no one else cares about this small yet important flaw. Can anything be done?

By: Thompson

Thompson — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Do you have a updated Reg key to hide / unhide apps that will be published I looked for the one John Dunsire gave but I don’t have it on my Windows 7 Enterprise machine. I am running the RC of Virtural PC.

You can get your old VM running XP/sp3 to publish apps by installing remoteApp on them.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e5433d88-685f-4036-b435-570ff53598cd&displaylang=en

I think there is a version you can install on your VM Vista as well.

By: Windows Xp mode et Windows 7 @ Richard Messier

Windows Xp mode et Windows 7 @ Richard Messier — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

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By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

I’d love information on this on how to run Cisco VPN in XP Mode or through Windows 7. My VPN blocks outside traffic and I need to use the Internet to research. So could I do this VPN in XP Mode for one browser while in just 7 run another browser for outside Internet with no VPN restricting me? I’m a little new to VPN so don’t have this all figured out but sounds possible. Would love people’s ideas, setups!

By: Matt W.

Matt W. — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Hi George,
I’m finding that I have no problems publishing applications from XP Virtual mode with the integration components installed, but if I build a VHD with our XP/SP3 OSD image and install the integration components, any apps that I install won’t publish. Do you know if a specific KB Hotfix is required for the publishing to work?

By: Adam Sanders

Adam Sanders — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

George Smith: I would love some more information on sharing the connection of the Cisco adaptor with the Windows 7 host. Thanks!

By: George Smith

George Smith — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

I see alot of questions about running Cisco VPN on a virtual machine, well yes it works and works fine.
The way to get it working is to install in XPM and then you basically share the conncetion of the Cisco adaptor.
I can give more info if needed.

Now 1 hand washes the other, i need to know will CISCO give support if there is any problem with the connections of VPN whilst using this method????

By: Arturo

Arturo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

I must say, this XPM just rocks!
I’ve had some issues with the VPN on Win7 so I figured I’d try XPM, sure enough, the VPN worked flawlessly. I was then able to RDP into the particular server on that particular site. I had to do all this on the XP desktop. Then I thought, what if I just run the XPM VPN from the Win7 start menu + XPM RDP… I didn’t even tried it. I went for the MMC instead. I copied my MMC with all my remote connections from Win 7 to the virtual XP, so now, I run the XPM VPN then I open XPM IE, go to favorites and open my remotes.msc MMC… Works great! Are we loving Microsoft or what?

By: Rafael

Rafael — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Rick,

Install the QFE on your existing VM.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=943b6ac7-87f2-45df-a516-21321d559ac3&displaylang=en

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Rafael,

Do you know of a way to upgrade an old virtual machine to have “application publishing” capability

I have the RC2 and the MS download XPM working fine but I also have some labouriously configured XP virtual machines that contain old MS office installs and other old XP era software that I can’t be bothered reinstalling and reconfiguring again.

BTW: These old VMs run fine under RC2 with integration features. Very useful too. Just no application publishing.

Thanks
Rick

By: Choto Cheeta

Choto Cheeta — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Hi,

There is a doubt for the last paragraph of the post.. On my first run, I could see I can run IE6 and at the same time I can install updates from Windows update !!!

http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/8065/vxprunning01.jpg

I didnt do any modification, its just the default XO mode running under Win7..

May be I am not understanding the meaning of the post properly !!!

Thanks.

By: Drew Martell

Drew Martell — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Edit: Nevermind. When I installed 3.0.10 it replaced 3.5 Beta 4 but kept the folders/shortcuts with the same name. Launching 3.5 Beta 4 shortcut opened 3.0.10 :) Sorry for the double post.

By: Drew Martell

Drew Martell — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

@John Dunsire

God, thank you so much! I’ve been wanting to run MSPaint and this is the perfect solution! One question: Some shortcuts still have issues. I have Firefox installed and copied the shortcut into the All Users start menu of the VM and it’s not showing in the host OS, and there’s no entries in the VPCVAppExcludeList. Do I need to manually add it in the AppAllowList, and if so how do I do that? Also, when I had Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 installed, it worked fine but with 3.0.10, no integration.

By: Windows Weekly 105: Paul’s Itties | Window7s

Windows Weekly 105: Paul’s Itties | Window7s — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

[...] Software tip of the week: You can install and run Windows XP applications in Windows 7, for example Internet Explorer 6, using this technique. [...]

By: Tommy Mhire

Tommy Mhire — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Rafael,

Any way to get XP mode to utilize more than just your main monitor? It looks like it’s using seemless RDP to present the apps on the windows 7 desktop. Is there some way to insert the /span switch into the string that starts the virutal enviornment?

By: Nic Bedford

Nic Bedford — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Hey Rafael, and idea how VMCPropertyHandler.dll@LaunchDefaultVM knows which is the default VM, and how we can change this value so that a different VM can be launched?

By: John Dunsire

John Dunsire — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Hi Guys

Been playing with this feature and found the Start Menu Publishing has a exclusion list in the VM registry. Anything listed in there won’t show on the Windows 7 Start Menu. Registry Key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Virtual Machine\VPCVAppExcludeList

In there you’ll find things like explorer.exe & mstsc.exe all the XP games exe ( god knows why MS just didn’t remove the games from the vhd). I deleted explorer.exe and mstsc.exe from the list and rebooted the VM from the action menu. I now have Explorer and RDP on my Windows 7 Start Menu. I have installed Cisco VPN Client which works fine. I now can kiss x86 Windows goodbye.

By: Windows XP Mode for Windows 7 is one part of the compatibility story for old applications | Coded Style

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

[...] Supersite have done a great job of explaining further with more details to come. Also check out this more detailed look at the internals. [...]

By: chris

chris — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Is the user account in the vm a member of the xp’s admin group?

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Does anyone know if it will run if AMD-V is NOT enabled in the bios? Will it fail to run at all? fail to install? The reason why i’m asking this is because on my Compaq laptop, even though the AMD-V compatiblility check finishes successfully, it’s only checking if the CPU has the extenstions, and does not cheque the actual hardware support in the bios (at least to my belief). Since OEM bios’ are heavily modified and the settings all hidden, i’m unable to determine if it’s enabled or not.

So, in light of that, could Virtual XP be using software mode, if it doesn’t detect virtualisation enabled in the bios? If you have this option in the bios, can you turn it off and see if Virtual XP will install and run without warning/error messages?

By: Windows 7 RC: XP Mode Installationseindrücke « Joerg´s IT-Tech Blog

Windows 7 RC: XP Mode Installationseindrücke « Joerg´s IT-Tech Blog — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

[...] kann man sich per Rafael (Windows XP Mode Internals – Part 2 (Application Publishing Magic)) und Georg Binder (XP Mode getestet) der XPM auch mal weitere Bilder und als Video [...]

By: DanielRemains

DanielRemains — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Just to tell everyone, this is available to download on torrent site.. I downloaded and installed it and runs very stable :) Remember, this is a BETA program over a BETA OS (Which is more stable than Vista) I’m on Windows 7 Build 7100 right now and I just love it :D