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If I want to install XP Mode on Windows 7 Home Premium, can I use...?
a Windows XP installation CD from an old computer of mine that I no longer use? Or would I have to buy a new Windows XP installation CD?
a Windows XP installation CD from an old computer of mine that I no longer use? Or would I have to buy a new Windows XP installation CD?
I don't think you can run it in premium?
Windows XP Mode - Install and Setup
NOTE: You must have Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, or Ultimate to run Windows XP Mode.
From what I read somewhere, you can run it if you install VMware Player.
You can run Windows Virtual PC on any version of Windows. With Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise or Ultimate, you get an included license for Windows XP mode...which is more or less an activated and legal copy of XP.
So, if you can provide your own copy of XP...you can use it with Home Edition.
However, in this case, the Windows xp copy is likely OEM and is technically tied to that other computer and couldn't legally be used in this case.
Why not simply use VirtualBox, it is less bloated than Vmware
VirtualBox
It has 5 services, only 4 of which run. One is for authorization (3.7MB of RAM), one for DHCP (788K) and one for NAT(904K), with the final for using USB devices.(1MB). So, all in all, they are consuming just over 6MB of RAM. And in the last 90 minutes, I have used my computer, the authorization service has consumed 7 seconds of CPU time, and the rest are at 0. So, it seems like calling this "bloated" might be just a bit exaggerated.