![]() ![]() To get to the XP virtual machine, you can click on the new item in the Windows 7 Start Menu called Virtual Machines (under the folder All Programs -> Windows Virtual PC), which will then show you a folder with that name. A new USB menu in the Windows Virtual Pc allows you redirect other USB peripherals to the virtual machine. Unlike Virtual Pc 2007, you now get support for some USB devices like printers, external drives, flash cards and smart card readers. And you can access a combined Windows clipboard of the host OS and the guest OS by copying and pasting between them. The new Windows Virtual Pc, like the previous Virtual Pc 2007, allows integration between your host Windows 7 operating system and the virtual XP OS (what is called the "guest OS"), in that you can freely use your mouse to drag and drop files between the host and guest systems. ![]() You will also be asked during the XP setup process to configure Automatic Updates. ![]() The latter will be configured with a user name of "User", and during the setup you provide the password you want to assign the user. You first install the Virtual Pc program and then install the virtual XP machine. The Windows Virtual Pc and Virtual Windows XP programs can be downloaded from Microsoft either in a 32-bit version or a 64-bit version, depending upon what your pc requires. IE6 will not automatically be added to the Windows 7 Start Menu, but you can get it to do so if you copy a shortcut for it to the All Users Start Menu in the XP virtual machine. The XP virtual machine that you download from Microsoft has Internet Explorer 6 built in, so if you found you had to keep using IE6 for certain purposes and turning down the Windows Update prompts for installing IE7 (or IE8), you no longer have to worry about that either. Microsoft is adding this feature to the above Windows 7 versions as "a new optional component for the Windows 7 operating system that you can use to evaluate and migrate to Windows 7 while maintaining compatibility with applications that run on older versions of Windows."Ī bonus of using both programs in your Windows 7 machine is that any programs you install in the virtual machine are automatically added to the Windows 7 Start Menu, so accessing these non-Windows-7-compatible programs in Windows 7 couldn't be easier. The combination of the two products allows small or medium-sized business customers to run those XP programs that have not been made available in a Windows 7 compatible version by using a virtual machine which is a fully licensed XP Pro installation. Virtual XP Mode is a free download of a Windows XP Professional virtual machine, updated to Service Pack 3. Windows Virtual Pc is an updated version of a previous free Microsoft product called Virtual Pc 2007. If you have one of these versions of Windows 7 installed, then you can download two new free features called Windows Virtual Pc, and Virtual XP Mode: ![]()
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