How to run a program on xp. How to start safe mode on a Windows XP computer? What are the limitations of Windows XP Mode
This answer collects information regarding the different techniques of the operating system option Windows 7, both by means of the OS itself, and with the help of various secondary programs.
Restoring the Traditional Start Menu in Windows 7
Return the traditional launch menu, the return function to which in Windows 7 absent, it is possible with the help of a free program CSMenu. This utility makes an alternative "Start" button, returning to it the traditional style, perfectly recognizable by the interface Windows 2000. After installation (administrator rights are required), the program leaves two icons on the desktop. By running one, the user starts scanning programs that are in the start menu. After indexing, this icon can be deleted, and then, in order for the configurations to take effect, log out of the profile and log in again. After logging in, you need to move the second icon to the taskbar - it will serve as a specific "Start" button, made in the traditional style. With all this, the real button does not go anywhere, it remains in place. Download CSMenu there is an opportunity from the forum about Windows 7 www.windows7forums.com. There you can also watch a video on how to install the program.
Internet search through the start menu
AT Windows 7 it became possible to find on the Internet through the Start menu, but by default this function is disabled. To enable search on the Internet through the Start menu, you need to do the following:
Enable DreamScene in Windows 7
dream scene is one of the functions in Windows Vista Ultimate, which allowed you to set a video as your desktop wallpaper. But this feature has been removed from Windows 7 and it was replaced by the function Desktop Slideshow— function of automatic change of background pictures of a desktop. Possibility to enable dream scene still exists. In order to run dream scene in Windows 7, you need to make the following function:
It is worth implying that dream scene not officially supported in Windows 7, because its options are not in the applet Personalization(Personalization) and on the configuration page Desktop background(Desktop background sketch). Despite this, all functions dream scene, including play(Reproduce), Pause(Stop) and audio are supported.
Restoring the Quick Launch Panel
AT Windows 7 Quick Launch has been replaced by a new feature supported by the taskbar - pinning applications to the taskbar. In order to pin an application to the taskbar, just press the right mouse button on the application window in the taskbar and select the "Pin this program to the taskbar" item.
To restore the quick start panel (Quick Launch) you need to make an additional toolbar and point to the folder Quick Launch: to do this, right-click on the taskbar and select the "Panels" item in the context menu and then "Create toolbar ...". In the dialog box that opens, point to the following folder: C:Users\AppDataRoamingMicrosoftInternet ExplorerQuick Launch. (In that case the folder AppData is not visible in the dialog box, you need to open the control panel, select the "Appearance and personalization" item, select the "Show hidden files and folders" item in it and select the "show hidden files, folders and drives" option in it) After which the toolbar Quick Launch will be added to the taskbar. For its traditional display, it is possible to right-click on the panel and uncheck the text display characteristics Show Text and headlines show title. The convenience of the traditional quick launch panel is that the user will have access to the icons of applications that place their shortcuts in this panel.
Changing Windows 7 taskbar to XP/Vista style
One of the most obvious configurations in Windows 7 is a brand new taskbar, in which icons are shown instead of buttons, and all application windows are connected together under one button. The first thing to do in order to return to the older style of the taskbar is to right-click on any free place on it and select the line from the menu that appears Properties(characteristics). More on the tab Taskbar(taskbar) opposite the label of the taskbar buttons Taskbar buttons you need to select the option Never combine(never merge once), which will set the taskbar to display a separate button for each individual window. It is also possible to select the option Combine when taskbar is full(Merge once when the taskbar is full) which will merge windows together when the taskbar is full. After performing these actions (and naturally implementing them), the buttons will be displayed with text labels ... which, however, will be made in the style Windows 7. To fix this, you still need to go to the characteristics of the taskbar and set the item for using small icons Use small icons. The taskbar with all this will become a little narrower and will be very similar to the panel Vista. The only remaining inconsistency will be the "pinned" icons, which will still be on the taskbar. But it is possible to remove them by clicking on each of them with the right mouse button and selecting the item Unpin this program from taskbar(unpin this program from the taskbar). And after that the taskbar will look and work almost like a panel WindowsXP/Vista.
Changing the LOGON UI Welcome Screen in Windows 7
Windows 7 has a new welcome screen LOGONUI. The welcome screen, it's just possible to change it using the free program Tweaks Logon Changer. With its help, the welcome screen has the ability to change to any other picture or return the original welcome page. In that case, the image size is more than 256Kb, then Tweaks Logo Changer will offer to make a copy of it and automatically compress it to a suitable size.
It is also possible to change the welcome screen by means of the system itself, in the absence of the use of additional programs. How to do this is thoroughly described in this article.
How to enable/run Windows XP Mode in Windows 7
XPmode(mode WindowsXP) is an addition that, in conjunction with virtualPC allows you to ensure full comparability of old applications with Windows 7. XP Mode is a virtual machine with a pre-installed system Windows XP; it starts from under the very Windows 7 and offers to create a launch of old applications that are not compatible with Windows 7, just in the environment Windows XP, due to which complete comparability is achieved.
It is important to note that the function Windows XP Mode irrevocably asks for hardware support for virtualization, in addition, the company's specialists Microsoft It is advised to use a computer equipped with at least 2 GB of RAM. It is possible to make sure that the hardware of the computer meets the necessary requirements by downloading and running the utilities posted on the microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc page.
The finished "super button" with the proud title "turn on Windows XP Mode" No. Development is external to itself Windows 7, with all this, only professional editions are supported - Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate. To install XP Mode to a computer running Windows 7, you need to download the latest version from the special Microsoft website Virtual PC(file Windows 6.1-KB958559-x86 ~4.9 Mb) and the finished image Windows XP(file VirtualWindowsXP.msi~445 MB), which already has the necessary services and drivers installed. For those who wish to make their own virtual image, the website contains update versions for Vista/XP, the installation of which in the virtual OS adds that support for the mode Windows XP mode. After downloading both files, you need to install them - at first Virtual PC for Windows 7, later the image itself.
In the "Start" menu in the "Programs" there is a section Windows Virtual PC, and in it is actually an item Virtual Windows XP. At the first start, the image changes in a very elementary way - only the password of the future user is requested. In the start menu, in the same section Windows Virtual PC there is a section Virtual Windows XP Application with links to virtual applications. It is possible to run as a virtual machine with Windows XP, as well as individual programs installed inside the virtual environment. With all this, the system provides completely transparent work with such applications and does not impose any multifunctional restrictions on them. From running inside Windows XP programs have the ability to work with files of the parent system, interact with USB and other devices connected to the computer, copy data via the clipboard, send them to print, etc.
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How to enable/run Windows XP Mode in Windows 7?
This answer contains information regarding the various methods of the Windows 7 operating system option, both by means of the OS itself and with the help of various secondary programs. Restoring the Traditional Start Menu in Windows 7 It is possible to return the traditional start menu, which does not have a return function in Windows 7, using the free CSMenu program. This utility makes an alternative "Start" button,...
They flooded with questions - "What? Why? How?" in the new "mega-chip" of Windows 7 called Windows XP Mode. I’ll try to answer briefly, but for those who are especially curious - as in the case of the post about installing Windows 7 on a netbook - I also recorded a video review ... I understand that this looks like an obsession, but what can I do - I, like my wife, suddenly became quite interested in writing video for a blog (a bad example is contagious, I guess). And judging by the statistics, the video turned out to be a very popular thing, I plan to further supplement my separate selection of videos on local UA-IX resources for more convenient viewing by users in Ukraine.
What is Windows XP Mode in Windows 7?
This small piece of technology with the general name of Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization, MEDV, also known as "bear" (not to be confused with well-known characters in Internet folklore :)) - comes as part of the MDOP 2009 package. A small part, but the most important - Windows XP Mode allows you to run a virtual OS process (Windows XP or Windows Vista) in a specially developed edition Virtual PC(currently supplied separately in beta status), and in this case, the user will not be shown the desktop of the virtual machine, but only the window of the application that is installed in the virtual OS, but published as a "normal" link in the Start menu parent system. Thus, for the user, work with applications both installed in "native" Windows 7 and in virtual Windows XP is absolutely "transparent" - he will be able to distinguish them only by window design. And no confusion with desktops, switches and all that. For admins, no compatibility worries about applications written for Windows XP when they run on Windows 7, as they run in their native, albeit virtual, XP environment. Yes, and it is quite difficult to call it especially "virtual", especially when compared with "pure" Hyper-V virtualization - in the Windows XP Mode version, not only USB flash drives are supported, but also a variety of "natural" USB, and not only devices - so , I "found" and earned a fingerprint reader on the laptop in virtual Windows XP.
In fact, this is all close (or rather, even built on the same principle) to the operation of Terminal Services in Windows Server 2008, where the user sees the windows of individual applications running on the server instead of the remote desktop. Only in the case of MEDV / Windows XP Mode, such a server is a virtual OS, in which special "a la terminal" services are installed, and the "terminal client" is located on the parent OS and its tasks also include "lifting" the virtual OS on request, if it's not working yet. So everything is really simple, no fraud, only "software magic". :)
Oh, and one more thing - MDOP offers this mode of operation not only for Windows 7, but also for Windows Vista, and in addition - utilities for centralized management of images, virtual OS settings and application publishing, which is very useful for networks where even 50 PCs will use a single image and settings.
How to enable/run Windows XP Mode in Windows 7 RC?
Both in RC and in the release (most likely) there is no ready-made "super button" with the proud name "enable Windows XP Mode". The technology is external (again - yet) in relation to Windows 7 itself (only professional editions, Home / Starter editions are not supported). But it doesn't matter - on a special site you can download a new version of Virtual PC to support Windows XP Mode in Windows 7 and a "ready" image (about 450MB) of "clean" Windows XP, in which the necessary services and drivers are installed. For those who want to create their own virtual image, there are beta versions of updates for Vista/XP on the site, the installation of which into the virtual OS adds that support for Windows XP Mode. Download, install - first Virtual PC for Windows 7, then the image itself
A section appears in the "Start" menu in "Programs" Windows Virtual PC, and in it - the point itself Virtual Windows XP. This is a link to the same image, which is 450MB and is installed second :) At the first start, the image is configured in a very trivial way - only the password of the future user is requested and that's it. All settings of this virtual OS correspond to the typical settings of Virtual PC virtual machines, except for the Auto Publish item that appears. This item is responsible for how applications from virtual Windows XP will be published in the Windows 7 start menu. By default, the automatic publication mode is set, which means that - Attention!!! - all over again installed apps in the virtual machine will automatically " float" on the menu parent Windows 7
We install what we need - and in the start menu, in the same section Windows Virtual PC section appears Virtual Windows XP Application with links to these virtual applications. We close the virtual machine, launch the required application from the start menu already in Windows 7 - and after a short wait (in the video you can estimate the start time of the virtual machine "in the background" with the subsequent launch of the required OS on the HP 8510w laptop), we get the application in "real" XP mode.
What are the limitations of Windows XP Mode?
Most importantly, this is the requirement for hardware support for virtualization in processors. Instructions for configuring hardware virtualization are on the same page (above) as the download of Virtual PC itself. I would like to pay special attention to the fact that often after the actual settings of the BIOS settings, to enable hardware virtualization, you also need to physically turn off the computer's power.
Both confident PC users and those who are just starting to comprehend the basics of computer science are equally not immune from malfunctions in their favorite device. However, many of the problems that arise can be solved by booting the operating system in safe mode. In this case, it is enough to undo the last actions performed on the computer - and it will work as it should. However, if for some it is a simple way out of a difficult situation, then for others it is a new serious problem. How about on a PC running Windows XP? Let's figure it out.
Method number 1: Start Windows XP in safe mode using the "Run" command
What should I do if a problem with the computer was detected before it was turned off? For example, after checking antivirus program Mountains of viruses "from nowhere that came from nowhere" were discovered, which tritely interfere with work. Is it possible in this case to start the PC in safe mode without leaving Windows systems XP? Still would! To do this, just use the Run utility installed on the computer.
To get started, look for the "Start" button on the taskbar and click on it with the left mouse button or find the icon on the keyboard and click on it. Now in the "Start" menu we look for the "Run" tab and similarly open it with a mouse click: 
In the system window that appears, enter the value in the empty field msconfig and confirm your choice either by pressing Enter on the keyboard, or by clicking on the OK option suggested by the system: 
As a result, the "System Settings" window will appear:
In the upper part of the open system window we find the BOOT.INI tab and click on it with the left mouse button. In this section, in the boot options, check the box next to SAFEBOOT and, depending on the option you need, next to Minimal, Network or Minimal (AlternateShell).
What is the difference? In the first case, Windows XP with basic settings; in the second - with access to network drivers; in the third - with the ability to use command line. However, no matter which option you like, to confirm the settings made in Windows XP, at the bottom of the tab, you need to click the OK or Apply button: 
In the next window, select the "Reboot" option:
After that, the “Safe Mode” parameter will be set on the computer and Windows XP will automatically reboot in the selected safe mode, notifying you immediately after the full boot by the appearance of the corresponding system window:
After booting into safe mode, this warning will appear, here you should click "Yes" to continue working in this mode
In order to save the "Safe Mode" parameter in response to the system message, left-click on the "Yes" option or press Enter on the keyboard. A few minutes and the computer is ready to go. As you can see, nothing complicated!
Method #2: Starting Safe Mode While Booting Windows XP
Perhaps this is the most famous and widely used method by users that will help you quickly start Windows XP in safe mode on a computer. How to use it? Just!
To do this, turn on the computer, as usual by pressing the power button, and immediately before the window appears Windows boot XP for 3-5 seconds, continuously press the F8 or F4 button on the keyboard. As a result, the Windows menu should appear:
- basic mode: will boot the main components of Windows XP;
- with support for network drivers;
- with command line access.
After the mode selection is made, press Enter to confirm it. As a result, the system will log in in safe mode.
What to do if Windows XP won't start Safe Mode?
Sometimes it happens that no matter how hard you try, the computer will not want to start in safe mode by any of the known methods. The reason for this problem is naively simple - viruses have damaged Windows registry. In this case, there are two options:
- restore your computer (system rollback);
- install special programs on the PC.
If you took care of the archival copy, that's great. However, if there is nothing to restore the system from, then the best option in this case is to download and install on a PC free program Safe Mode Repair or SafeBootKeyRepair. With their help, you can "reanimate" the damaged values of the registry keys and, accordingly, start the safe mode on the computer after rebooting. The main thing - do not forget to check your favorite device for viruses after solving the problem!
As you can see, there are various ways to start Windows XP on a PC in safe mode. Choose the option that suits you best and troubleshoot quickly and efficiently!
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Time inexorably runs forward and, sooner or later, certain programs, games become obsolete. The operating systems in which they worked are also massively beginning to be replaced by newer ones.
But what about those who want to remember their youth, or do they just need one or another program or game that refuses to work in the newfangled Windows 8?
In this article, I would like to consider running old programs and games on new computers. Consider several ways, including virtual machines, which allow you to run almost any application!
So, let's begin…
1. Game console emulators
Perhaps the first word in this article should remain with game console emulators (Sega, Dendy, Sony PS). These consoles appeared in the 90s and immediately gained wild popularity. They played from young to old at any time of the year and day!
By the 2000s, the excitement subsided, computers began to appear and somehow everyone forgot about them. But these console games can also be played on a computer by downloading a special program - emulator. Then download the game and open it in this emulator. Everything is quite simple.
By the way! The network is full of emulators for other game consoles. The purpose of this little preview for this article was to show that console games can be played on a computer!
And now let's move from console games to computer games and programs ...
2. Launch using Windows compatibility tools
If a program or game refuses to start or behaves unstable, you can try running it in compatibility mode for a specific OS. Fortunately, the developers themselves have built this opportunity on Windows.
Truth, for the entire time of use, this method probably helped me out a couple of times out of several hundred launches of problematic applications! Therefore, it is worth trying it, but you cannot believe in 100% success.
1) Right-click on the desired executable program file and select properties. By the way, you can also click on the desktop icon (i.e. shortcut). The effect is the same.
2) Now check the box next to "compatibility mode" and select the OS you want to emulate.
Then save the settings and try to run the program. There is a chance that it will work.
3. Launching games and programs in the DOS environment
Even the oldest programs can be run in a modern OS, however, this will require special programs that emulate the DOS environment.
About the day of the best DOS emulators in the Windows environment is DOSBox. You can download from office site
programs.
Installing DOSBox
Installing the program is not difficult. Only I would recommend that during installation, be sure to create an icon (shortcut) of the executable file on the desktop. Check the box next to "Desktop Shortcut".
Starting games in DOSBox
Let's take some old game that needs to be run on Windows8. let there be Sid Meier's turn-based strategy Civilization 1.
If your program requires Windows 98, for example, then you can't do without a virtual machine. Further we will talk about them!
4. Run old OS on new versions of Windows
Run any old program on the new OS is possible only with the help of virtual machines. They are ordinary programs that emulate, as it were, the operation of a real computer. Those. it turns out that you can run an OS in Windows 8, for example, Windows 2000. And already in these running old OSes, run any executable files (programs, games, etc.).
We will talk about how to do all this in this section of this article.
4.1. Virtual machine. Installation
This is a free virtual machine that will allow you to run dozens of operating systems on your new computer, from Windows 95 to Windows 7.
The only thing is that this type of program is quite demanding on system resources, so if you want to run in Windows 8, Windows 8 OS - you need to have at least 4 GB.
Works in both 32 and 64 bit systems. Installation takes place in a standard way, personally, I do not touch any checkboxes, everything is by default.
The only thing I leave a check mark is for the installer to create a shortcut on the desktop to launch the program (Create a shortcut on the desktop).
In general, after installing VirtualBox, you can proceed to install the OS into it. But more on that below.
4.2. Setting up a virtual machine
Before proceeding with the installation of the OS, you need to configure the virtual machine.
1) After the first launch in VirtualBox, you can click only one button - "create". Actually, we press.
5) Virtual HDD, which you create in this program is a regular image file. It will be located in the folder that you specify during configuration.
There are two types of virtual hard drive:
Dynamic: means that the file will grow in size as the disk fills up;
Fixed: The size will be set immediately.
6) On this, as a rule, the configuration of the virtual machine ends. By the way, you should have a button to start the created machine. It will behave as if you turned on the computer without an installed OS.
4.3. Installing Windows 2000 in a virtual machine
In this post, we will focus on Windows 2000 as an example. Its installation will not differ much from the installation of Windows Xp, NT, ME.
To start you need to create or download an installation disk with this OS. By the way, the image is needed in ISO format (in principle, any will do, but with ISO the entire installation procedure will be faster).
1) Start the virtual machine. Everything is simple here and there should not be any problems.
2) The second step is to connect our ISO image to the virtual machine. To do this, select devices/select image optical disc . If the image has joined, then you should observe such a picture as in the screenshot below.
3) Now you need to restart the virtual machine. This can be done using the command of the same name. See screenshot below.
4) If the image is working and you did everything correctly in the previous 3 steps, you will see a welcome screen and the installation of Windows 2000 OS will begin.
5) After 2-5 min. (on average) copying the installation files, you will be asked to read the license agreement, select a disk for installation, whether to format it, etc. - in general, everything is the same as with a normal Windows installation.
The only thing. You can not be afraid to make mistakes, because anyway, everything that will happen will happen on a virtual machine, which means that this will not harm your main operating system in any way!
7) After another reboot, you will already see Windows 2000 installed!
By the way, you can install games, programs into it, and generally work in it as if it were a computer running Windows 2000.
4.3. Sharing files with a virtual machine (connecting a hard drive)
Many users do not experience big problems with installing and setting the basic settings for a virtual machine. But difficulties can begin when you decide to add some file (or vice versa, copy it from the virtual machine disk). Directly, through “edit-copy-paste” the focus will not pass ...
3) Here you need to select the section " disk management«.
In the column on the right, click on the control button and select "attach virtual hard disk". Enter the address where it is located and connect the VHD file.
How to find the VHD file?
Very simply, by default, during installation, the file will be located at:
C:\Users\alex\VirtualBox VMs\winme
where "alex" is your account name.
Personally, I would not have started to figure it out myself if I had not encountered the fact that the program necessary for the calculations was not so ancient and would not refuse to work in Windows XP. I had to install and configure a virtual machine, then Windows 2000 into it, and calculations were already carried out in it ...
By the way, how do you run old programs? Or do you not use them at all?
Description of how to install and run the full version Windows XP from under Windows Vista or Windows 7 using the program Oracle Virtual Box. In this case, Windows XP is installed in a virtual machine and runs as a standalone application on Windows Vista, Windows 7, or any other operating system, including various Linux distributions. In this way, compatibility problems of various programs and drivers with Windows Vista, Windows 7, or other operating systems can be resolved.
A small introduction
Probably, many of you, my dear readers, have already managed to install and try Windows Vista and Windows 7. It seems that the systems are good for everyone, but some programs and old games do not run in the new operating system, and drivers for some devices do not work. What to do in this case? Refuse the charms new version Windows?
In fact, there are several ways to solve this problem. The most obvious is to install Windows XP as a second system with the ability to choose which one to include at boot. This method is described in this article:. But here comes the inconvenience. For the sake of some kind of program, you need to restart the laptop, turn on Windows XP, work with the program, restart the laptop and turn on Windows 7, for example. Inconvenient, right? But what if your favorite USB modem only works fine in Windows XP? Reboot the system and turn on Windows XP in order to surf the Internet?
Fortunately, there is a solution. Windows XP can be installed on a virtual machine and run from under any operating system as a separate program. It works according to this principle Microsoft Windows 7 XP Mode. It's a good technology, but for it to work, virtualization support is required on the laptop, and it only works in Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Ultimate and Windows 7 Enterprise. But what if the laptop is running Windows Vista?
And this is where a great program comes in. virtual box from Sun. It is completely free, allows you to create virtual machines on a laptop, on which you can install many operating systems. The advantage of this utility compared to Microsoft Windows 7 XP Mode is support for 3D graphics for virtual machines, it does not need hardware virtualization, as well as the fact that it can be run on any Windows versions, Linux, etc.. The downside is that formally you need a licensed Windows XP, although taking into account our realities ... :)
This article will walk you through the process of installing Windows XP in a virtual machine. The whole process can be broken down into the following steps:
If you have any problems or questions about working with the Virtual Box virtual machine, then you should ask for help in this forum thread:.
1. Create a virtual machine
First of all, you need to install the utility virtual box( / ). During installation, it is important to note the following options:
System devices will also be installed. The corresponding installation requests must be allowed.
When the installation is completed, run the utility and click on the button Create:
Should run:
Let's move on to the next window. Since we do not have a virtual hard disk, we need to create a new one:
Select the type of virtual hard disk. I recommend :
That's all. The virtual machine has been created. Now you can move on to setting it up.
2. Setting up the virtual machine
Before setting up, prepare a disk with Windows XP or an iso image with it, and then select the created virtual machine in the VirtualBox window and click on the button Properties:
Let's start with the tab Main. Optionally, you can arrange the menu of the virtual machine on top. So more convenient:
Go to tab System:
Here you can change the volume random access memory, which is allocated to the virtual machine, change the boot order of virtual devices, enable or disable the IO-APIC option (required if you plan to use multiple processor cores for the virtual machine), and enable or disable EFI (required for some operating systems, such as MacOS). Go to tab CPU:
Here you can specify how many processor cores the virtual machine can use, as well as enable or disable PAE / NX (some operating systems support PAE. This mode allows a 32-bit virtual system to use up to 64 GB of RAM). Go to tab Acceleration:
On this tab, you can enable or disable hardware virtualization. If you are going to install a 64-bit operating system, then you need to enable it, and you also need virtualization support from the laptop. If your laptop does not support this feature, then it does not matter. To run 32-bit operating systems on a virtual machine hardware virtualization is not needed.
VirtualBox supports 2D and 3D acceleration (OpenGL / DirectX8 / DirectX9). It should be included. Go to tab Net:
When installing VirtualBox, another network card appeared in the system, which is virtually connected to the network card of our virtual machine. We configure the virtual network adapter as shown in the figure above and go to the tab USB:
At the beginning of the article, it was said that using virtualization, you can get around the problem of incompatible drivers for USB devices with new operating systems. So here virtual box allows you to redirect so that any USB device that connects to your computer or laptop is connected not to the main operating system, but to the system that is running in the virtual machine. Then, on Windows XP, drivers are installed on a virtual machine for a new USB device and it fully works under Windows XP. The main system is the device will not see. Since there are a lot of USB devices in the system, so that when the virtual machine is turned on, all of them are not disconnected from the main one and are not connected to the virtual one, a system of filters was invented. The filters specify which USB devices should be disconnected from the main operating system and connected to Windows XP virtual when it is turned on.
To add a new filter, click on the plus icon and select the required USB device from the list. After that it appears in the list. Let's go to the tab:
Since there is no sense from Windows XP on a virtual machine without the ability to work with files on the main one, you need to share certain folders on the hard drive. To do this, click on the plus icon and select the folder on the hard drive of your computer or laptop that will run Windows XP on the virtual machine:
Enter its name and click OK. Here she is on the list:
Now there is still the last very small touch. You need to somehow install Windows XP :) Go to the tab carriers:
We have two options: install Windows XP from an .iso image or from a regular disk. In the first case, click on the icon with an arrow and click on the button Add:
Specify where the image with Windows XP is located and add it to the list:
We click on the image with Windows XP and click on the button Choose.
If you just have a disk with Windows XP, then put it in the drive and select your drive from the list:
Clicking OK. Now you can proceed with the installation Windows XP.
3. Installing and configuring Windows
A normal Windows XP installation should start:
I will not describe it in detail. The installation is described in detail in this material:. Drivers are not needed in this case. Everything you need is already included in Windows XP.
After installation, we will get a working Windows XP in a virtual machine. Now you need to install Guest OS add-ons. To do this, select the appropriate menu item Devices:
Important note: since the keyboard and mouse in a laptop or computer are often the same, the main operating system and the operating system that is running in the virtual machine are forced to share it somehow. For this, a capture mechanism is used. In other words, if a virtual machine is in the foreground, then everything that is entered from the keyboard will be addressed to it. You can also switch manually. For this, the default is right ctrl. When the virtual machine is working with the keyboard and mouse, the green arrow is lit in the lower right corner of the window with the virtual machine.
The installation of guest additions should begin:
Possible questions: if the installation has not started for you, then manually add the image VBoxGuestAdditions.iso in the folder with VirtualBox in the virtual drive as it was done when installing Windows XP, and then run the drive in the virtual machine.
Put a check next to Direct3D Support:
During installation, you will see several warnings like this:
Click Continue anyway. After installation, it is advisable to restart the virtual machine:
To maximize the virtual machine window, in the menu Car select item:
Now the frame has been removed and it has become much more convenient to work:
Now it remains to deal with shared folders. AT Windows XP launch command line:
We connect the previously created shared folder as a network drive. To do this, enter the command net use x:\\vboxsvr\Documents(Documents here is the name of the shared folder):
AT my computer disk appeared x:\, which we just connected:
The content of this drive matches the content of the shared folder we created earlier.
That's all.
If you have any questions about working with the VirtualBox utility, then we state them in this forum topic:. All questions that are related to the installation of Windows XP, please state in this forum thread:
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