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Wise Game Booster is a load of crap. Ditch it.
CPU instruction sets can be seen with the free and small program CPUz.
You can also search in your favorite search engine your CPU model and if it's Intel you can view their "Ark" webpage and see the CPU capabilities.
Gaming in a virtual machine is NOT recommend (at least today). You want bare metal. Old hardware can be had on eBay for next to nothing from companies that want to save planet Earth (dirt) and recycle E-waste.
Use the program Autoruns from Microsoft as an advanced MSConfig... The version of Autoruns you use to enable/disable items is the one that can only re-enable that item. Other subsequent versions of Autoruns may not be aware of disabled items from a different version of Autoruns. So just heed my advice otherwise you'll find yourself in the AppData folder, registry and whatnot.
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Any "booster" is a load of crap. Learn the art and mastercraft of "boosting" your own computer for the sake of your privacy and the applicable shenanigans these programs will have on your PC. Like royally screwing the thing over. There's a program called Process Lasso. It's withen the same snake oil trade.
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This statement doesn't make any sense.The games work perfectly on my Windowx XP real machine, but I would like to run them on my Windows 7 machine for better performance and less stress.
Less stress? Explain? LOL!
I can tell you right now you'll have better functionality in a top of the line dedicated XP machine than you will Windows 7 for a game made in the before time of XP's days. A perfect example is Flight Simulator 2004 or Flight Simulator X. Yes, they run in Windows 7, but not without some hiccups. And God forbid you use Windows 10 or 11. It'll run, but you have to make it work. Native XP is where you want to run these old games or programs. I used to run XP 64.
Here's another example. I used to play BF2 with the AIX mod in Windows 7 1. (In fact, the thing is still installed). But just trying to get BF2 to work in 7 was a bit of a trick. And my beloved Command And Conquer Generals Zero Hour has some minor issues in Windows 7 as well. Though it runs. I shun to think how the aforementioned BF2 or Zero Hour would run in 10 & 11. LOL!
1You use a third-party program for server access since Gamespy is dust.