Windows XP Mode - Install and Setup

stupid move microsoft, stupid move.

Night Hawk said:

It's still a disappointment for those who go for the Home Premium editions and find out this is not supported. The previous Virtual PC 2007 also saw a lack there on the Vista equivalent as well. I know that one well!

Just be aware that Microsoft is not the only player in town when it comes to running virtual machines. In fact, the MS products are my least favorite and least compatible with multiple operating systems IMO.

You can skip all of this hassle by using something like VMWare Server 2.0 (free), VMWare Workstation (not free), or Sun VirtualBox (free). Just because the free VMWare server has the word Server in the title, does not mean that it will not run on non-server OS's. I've used it for years on XP, Vista and now Windows 7.

virtual box sucks, it runs insanely slow. and it hogs memory.

Wii Master 64 said:

virtual box sucks, it runs insanely slow. and it hogs memory.

All virtual machines "hog memory" it's the nature of the beast. Whatever memory you tell the virtual machine to take up, it's gonna take up, regardless if its vbox,vmware,or virtualxp.

Wii Master 64 said:

virtual box sucks, it runs insanely slow. and it hogs memory.

Are you kidding me...maybe you have something set incorrectly because as far as speed goes, comparing Sun VirtualBox 3.0.4 on the same box I was running XP Mode....my XP mode box boots in 56 seconds and my VirtualBox XP boots in 24. Here is my thread where I compared the two looking for ways to try to improve the performance. As you can see, VirtualBox for me absolutely demolished XP Mode running on the same hardware with the same OS version and SP on the VM. XP Mode is slow--any way to improve

As far as hogging memory, I cannot say that I have ever noticed. It's usually the RAM assigned to the VM's...and obviously those are going to take up the RAM when I start them.

What version of VirtualBox were you using that you were unhappy with? Like I said, I've never felt that performance in VirtualBox has been anything short of great. I find it faster than VMWare and I find both of them faster than Microsoft Virtual PC or XP Mode.

the latest version i guess, but the thing is, it slowed my entire computer down, so much that i had to uninstall it.

Wii Master 64 said:

the latest version i guess, but the thing is, it slowed my entire computer down, so much that i had to uninstall it.

Well, sorry to hear that. This hasn't been my experience whatsoever. I guess we all have different experiences. I'm just happy mine has been positive.

I installed it all, worked fine but is not serving the purpose I was hoping for. I want to uninstall now. I did via control panel for XP mode, but how do I uninstall "Windows Virtual PC"? It's not in the list for uninstall.