Today XP Died

Prisoner said:

whs said:

Did you explore whether you could run Win7 in e.g. Virtual Box. I did that with the Beta and the prerelease and that worked very well. My tutorial in this zip folder will tell you how (just note that this tutorial is over 1 year old and there might be slight differences).

Thank you for the tutorial, but my hard drive issue is that it's only 18 gigabytes in size. I would have about 80% of the hard drive covered by 7 alone. At the moment, I only have 3 gigabytes left with XP installed.

Hmm, that's tough. Can't you upgrade the disk or add a second one? And what about running Win7 only. You could cut the size down to as little as 4-5GBs with vLite.

Still have XP on wife's laptop. It has been sentenced to death but the execution date has not been set. Too busy doing the flower beds, spring cleaning and weekend festivals.

Jim

Prisoner, Well I am glad you got a solution. And thanks for the virtual reps - don't worry about it.

Prisoner said:

As I wait for Explorer to restart, I type this.

I miss Win7.. it's hard for me to want to keep XP after being forced to downgrade back to XP due to hard drive issues. I'm so used to the features in 7, along with the stability I've found in it. Plus, how am I to develop programs for Windows 7 when I am not running Windows 7?

Sadly still using XP.

Exactly what hard drive issues are we talking about?

CommonTater said:

Prisoner said:

whs said:

Did you explore whether you could run Win7 in e.g. Virtual Box. I did that with the Beta and the prerelease and that worked very well. My tutorial in this zip folder will tell you how (just note that this tutorial is over 1 year old and there might be slight differences).

Thank you for the tutorial, but my hard drive issue is that it's only 18 gigabytes in size. I would have about 80% of the hard drive covered by 7 alone. At the moment, I only have 3 gigabytes left with XP installed.

Ummmm... you may want to take a look at this...

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Ok... how'd I do that?

I used VLite to remove Media Center, Speech Recognition, Natural Language Search and about 50 languages.... Saving? 2.2gb from the installer image, about 10gb installed.

I run with no system restore, no pagefile, no hibernation and do not use automatic updates... it's going to stay that size.

So I don't have any software installed, do I?

Well... As you can see, it's pretty much a full system...

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It's all in the setup...

Now if I could only sort out the network compatibility issues, I could make this back into my primary OS...

Read post #22. The OP did just that.

whs said:

Read post #22. The OP did just that.

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XP is STILL a solid OS. It isn't going to die out nearly as fast as "Windows 7 only" fans seem to think. I'm currently running 7 Ultimate x64, but if for some reason I couldn't, I would run XP-Pro SP3 WAY before I ran Vista. I have a funny feeling that Microsoft will continue to support XP longer than they have announced too.

XP had a great run, and apparently it's not exactly dead yet. I remember when XP-Pro SP2 first came out. It blew me away. It was Microsoft's finest hour to date.

CommonTater said:

whs said:

Read post #22. The OP did just that.

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That was not neccessary. It might have been interesting for the next person.

whs said:

CommonTater said:

whs said:

Read post #22. The OP did just that.

Deleted for your viewing pleasure.

That was not neccessary. It might have been interesting for the next person.

Then why did you complain about it?