Run the XP Program Using XP mode in Windows 7

Run the XP Program Using XP mode in Windows 7

 

More and more people have abandoned XP's investment in Windows 7. After all, XP is a system developed more than 10 years ago. However, in some special cases, you still need to use the XP platform, such as some professional software, and the old systems of some websites need IE6 browsers for normal access. At this time, if you reinstall the system or find a computer to install XP, it is too worthless. As a Computer Major, I want to learn SQL server2008 when I study databases, and I want to learn vs2010 when I study development. What is helpless is that the school wants to teach SQL2000, and the teacher demonstrates vc6.0. Is Windows 7 or XP installed on your computer? Use the XP mode in Windows 7.

: Http://www.microsoft.com/china/windows/virtual-pc/

Download the Windows XP mode Installer (including the complete genuine XP operating system) and Windows Virtual PC Installer (create a virtual machine in Windows 7 to run the XP system, and your Windows 7 system version is professional or flagship. It seems that the home and basic versions are not supported.

After downloading the two files, install Windows XP mode and then Windows Virtual PC. After installation, restart your computer. This is not complete yet, because the Running Conditions of the downloaded two installation file versions require your computer to support hardware to assist with Virtualization (HAV) in addition to the software restrictions of the above Windows 7 versions) function. However, ordinary PCs do not usually have this function. Some computers also need to set this function in Bois, Which is cumbersome to perform. However, Microsoft released a patch to remove the hardware threshold. After installation, the computer can run successfully even if it does not support hardware virtualization technology.

Here is the 32-bit system patch that removes the limitations of hardware virtualization technology download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/zh-cn/details.aspx? Familyid = 837f12aa-1d37-464e-ae59-20c9ecbebaf6

After the patch is installed, the virtual machine is installed.

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After the installation is complete, the program icon is displayed in the Start Menu. Windows Virtual PC is a virtual machine program used to manage and create your own virtual machine. Windows XP mode is one of the many virtual machines. In addition to XP virtual machines, you can also create your own virtual machines to install other operating systems.

The management of virtual machines is very simple: Just like a common folder, it only manages some configuration files of virtual machines. XP mode is automatically created during installation.

The following is the running status. We can see that the system automatically allocates a gb c disk space. The actual occupied size of the virtual machine is dynamically increased, the size of virtual machine files in Windows 7 does not matter because the installation of an XP system occupies GB of hard disk space. I don't know what will happen if it exceeds 120 Gb. The total size of my computer's hard disk is less than GB. At the same time, the system will automatically configure the virtual network card during the installation process. Therefore, as long as Windows 7 can access the Internet, the XP system in the virtual machine can also access the internet. In addition, the XP system will automatically create a ing network drive that corresponds to each partition of the Windows 7 system. At the same time, the ing System Drive is used as the Virtual Machine Drive drive, and software can be directly installed through the disc, you can also directly access the content in the Windows 7 file system.

The following are the most interesting parts. There are many available Virtual Machine Software in Windows 7, but choosing Microsoft's own product certainly has its own uniqueness. XP mode is different from other virtual machine systems in that it can send applications installed in the virtual XP system to the real Windows 7 operating system as a software for Windows 7.

To use this feature, you must log off and disable the XP mode after installing the required software in XP.

Then select the program to run in the Start Menu:

Look, using VB6.0 and SQL Server2000 directly in Windows 7 is not bad!

Note that even if a program in XP mode runs in Windows 7, its file system is still a Virtual File System in XP mode. However, we can directly access the ing network drive of the Windows 7 real system.

For those with special needs, apart from installing dual systems, this is also a good choice. Frequent restart switching is not required, making it easy to use. Finally, we recommend that you use Windows 7. After all, XP is a system developed more than 10 years ago.