Windows 8 com xp mode

Details required :. Cancel Submit. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. In reply to A. User's post on May 22, Virtualbox doesn't support Win 8. In reply to NCMtn's post on June 22, Do so. Upon re-entering Windows, Hyper-V will be enabled.

The image above shows the Hyper-V options under Windows 8. Enable them and restart. If you don't see Hyper-V Platform or it appears grayed out in the 'Windows Features' window above, then you won't be able to create a virtual machine using Hyper-V. It should list, under Hyper-V Requirements:. If the left pane shows no Hyper-V servers your local host computer to connect to, then select the "Hyper-V Manager" in the left pane, click "Connect to server" on the right pane, select "Local computer" in the dialog that follows and click "OK".

Here you can create an External Virtual Switch, linked to your physical network card. Make sure the box Allow management operating system to share this network adapter is checked. This default type of network connection does not work for XP and Vista so, if at the end of the tutorial you still don't have an internet connection for your XP VM, see the troubleshooting part.

This will open an wizard. Generation 2 is only used for Windows 8 bit or newer and Windows Server or newer guest operating systems. If you need to use internet, you must redo the procedure from step a and don't skip step c. The Location path will vary in your case. You need to connect to your newly created XP virtual machine and start it.

Install that and you will be able to create virtual machines for almost any operating system that runs on a PC. Remember, this is like installing Windows on a completely empty machine. XP mode in Windows 7 was simple to download, install, and run. If your machine is already tight on memory , you may not have enough RAM to run a virtual machine. Once you get a Windows XP virtual machine running within Windows 8, you should be able to run pretty much everything that you used to in Windows XP.

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Unfortunately when I bought my new Dell Inspiron notebook running Windows 7, the game would not run. Hoyle states they dropped the game from their new edition of Table Games because they could not get the game to run on dual core processors.

I know that I'll still want an XP mode. I have about 10 applications installed on it that won't run properly on Win 7 and I've no desire to give them up, they still do their job very well. So presumably they already know that it's sufficiently different to need it, and it's not just a mostly cosmetic-plus-tweaks type of upgrade. I guess MSFT know how many people have downloaded the XP mode option and if it's a really small percentage of Win 7 installs, maybe they'll think they don't need to keep it.

You won't be able to run nested vms then any more than you can now. That would mean connecting emultated hardware to emulated hardware instead of the physical hardware. Since XP will not be retired until April 13, and the next version of Windows will certainly be released well before then, I suspect that XP Mode will be supported on the new system at least until XP's retirement.

Then I expect the XP Mode download link will be closed. That will not affect installations already running. A more interesting question is how much longer will Microsoft continue to develop 32bit versions of new operating systems?

I see it for the next Windows but perhaps not the one after. Well, on the 64 bit machines it is. Am I wrong in thinking that the i3 and i5 processors which are by far the most popular currently are both 32 bit? I'm still seeing that the 64 bit version of IE9 won't allow you to set it as the default browser though. That's a bit weird. Not that I want to, but weird you can't. All the i3 and i5 processors I've seen are 64bit.

I don't think there are any 32bit i-series processors. Even the Intel Atoms have 64bit instruction sets now. Why would they? You can still download updates for Windows 98, why would you expect they would pull XP Mode a component of Windows 7 when XP goes out of support? When XP goes out of support MS will pull the plug on XP Mode downloads because they don't distribute a product that they don't support.