Looking to Super Tweak my Win 7 to make it XP like

How can I go about finding the correct drivers and installing them before I attempt to dual boot?

As a general rule if resources are adequate Windows 7 will outperform XP running on the same hardware. And the resource requirements for this aren't particularly high. If Windows 7 performance is inferior to XP then something is wrong.

Well XP runs flawless on the virtual machine on the mac compared to my windows 7 on my laptop it's much more snappier in process. and i didn't need any drivers when installed it in the virtual machine i just popped in the disc and it did the rest for me

Dizaster said:

Well XP runs flawless on the virtual machine on the mac compared to my windows 7 on my laptop it's much more snappier in process. and i didn't need any drivers when installed it in the virtual machine i just popped in the disc and it did the rest for me

You are running XP and Windows 7 on different hardware and the comparison is hardly fair to Windows 7. There is far more to performance than just RAM size. Laptop hard drives tend to be slow as the priority is for low power consumption, not performance. Same for the CPU. Same for the video system.

I would try a native boot install xp to vhd. Win 7 supports it now, so it's easy to create a (virtual) volume, then mount it and instlall XP. It'd be interesting to see how well it manages to auto-install drivers... I would (as a 'precaution') have a network adapter (wi-fi?) driver (so you can get to the cloud where the drivers live!)

In my experience (maybe manufacturer dependent), the order in which drivers are installed is sometimes a factor (on XPS I had to follow very specific instructions to get the intel wireless display technology to play nice with the hd audio drivers and maybe nvidia...) if ya can, it wouldn't hurt (at all) to get the info (and the 'repositories') saved (added to the boot media from which you install xp, ideally a usb?)

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