How to install XP on a Win7 system

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Understand that Win 7 installed on an XP system works fine.

Have a new Lap with Win 7 - wud like to add XP to "service" older SW.

That said, if I upgrade a Win 7 Hm Pre to Win 7 Prof, it is said that
the Win 7 Prof supports XP (32bit) applications (not ready to buy
Quickbooks, for example). Then having, requiring two OS on same goes
away.

If you go Pro you get "XP Mode" which is basically a pre-configured (and
licensed) copy of XP that runs as a VM (virtual machine). You can run 32
and 16 bit apps in that VM.

But Quickbooks (as per your example) should run as it is 32b and Win7-64
support most 32b software.

On 1/12/2012, posted:

Understand that Win 7 installed on an XP system works fine.

Have a new Lap with Win 7 - wud like to add XP to "service" older SW.

That said, if I upgrade a Win 7 Hm Pre to Win 7 Prof, it is said that
the Win 7 Prof supports XP (32bit) applications (not ready to buy
Quickbooks, for example). Then having, requiring two OS on same goes
away.

Is this true?

Thank You!

Wayne

I assume that you have a licensed copy of XP to install.

It's possibly easiest to install a virtual machine and install that
licensed copy of XP inside the VM (if you have Pro, then just take
Seth's advice).

For one thing, it becomes easy to share data between the host system
and the virtual (client) OS.

I use VMware Reader, which is free. There are others, free and not.

Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:18:46 -0500, "Seth"
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wrote in message
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Have a new Lap with Win 7 - wud like to add XP to "service" older SW.

That said, if I upgrade a Win 7 Hm Pre to Win 7 Prof, it is said that
the Win 7 Prof supports XP (32bit) applications (not ready to buy
Quickbooks, for example). Then having, requiring two OS on same goes
away.

If you go Pro you get "XP Mode" which is basically a pre-configured (and
licensed) copy of XP that runs as a VM (virtual machine). You can run 32
and 16 bit apps in that VM.

But Quickbooks (as per your example) should run as it is 32b and Win7-64
support most 32b software.

Agreed. To the OP, don't even consider dual booting until you try
Quickbooks and see for yourself that it won't run. I'm thinking it'll
install and run just fine without any tricks.


Char Jackson

I have a 3 Os boot machine windows xp pro
windows 7 ultimate and ubuntu :)


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On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:18:46 -0500, "Seth"
wrote:

wrote in message
news:

Have a new Lap with Win 7 - wud like to add XP to "service" older SW.

That said, if I upgrade a Win 7 Hm Pre to Win 7 Prof, it is said that
the Win 7 Prof supports XP (32bit) applications (not ready to buy
Quickbooks, for example). Then having, requiring two OS on same goes
away.

If you go Pro you get "XP Mode" which is basically a pre-configured (and
licensed) copy of XP that runs as a VM (virtual machine). You can run 32
and 16 bit apps in that VM.

But Quickbooks (as per your example) should run as it is 32b and Win7-64
support most 32b software.

Agreed. To the OP, don't even consider dual booting until you try
Quickbooks and see for yourself that it won't run. I'm thinking it'll
install and run just fine without any tricks.


Char Jackson

On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:18:46 -0500, "Seth"
wrote:

wrote in message
news:

Understand that Win 7 installed on an XP system works fine.

Have a new Lap with Win 7 - wud like to add XP to "service" older SW.

That said, if I upgrade a Win 7 Hm Pre to Win 7 Prof, it is said that
the Win 7 Prof supports XP (32bit) applications (not ready to buy
Quickbooks, for example). Then having, requiring two OS on same goes
away.

If you go Pro you get "XP Mode" which is basically a pre-configured (and
licensed) copy of XP that runs as a VM (virtual machine). You can run 32
and 16 bit apps in that VM.

But Quickbooks (as per your example) should run as it is 32b and Win7-64
support most 32b software.

To run 16-bit legacy software requires Windows 7 Pro 32-bit plus MS
Virtual PC 2007.

Windows 7 Pro 64-bit only support the newest version of MS Virtual PC,
and supports 32-bit and 64-bit software only.

Hope this helps clarify the issues.

IMHO,

MJR