Windows XP Mode - Install and Setup

Cesare said:

Where can I find and download Windows XP Mode today for Windows 7?

To setup Windows XP Mode:

1. Download & install Windows XP Mode
2. Download & install Windows Virtual PC

Windows XP Mode
Windows XP Mode - Free download and software reviews - CNET Download

Filename: WindowsXPMode_en-us.exe | Filesize: 469 MB (492,597,008 bytes)

Windows Virtual PC (32-bit)
Windows Virtual PC (32-bit) - Free download and software reviews - CNET Download

Filename: Windows6.1-KB958559-x86-RefreshPkg.msu | Filesize: 15.3 MB (16,070,039 bytes)

Windows Virtual PC (64-bit)
Windows Virtual PC (64-bit) - Free download and software reviews - CNET Download

Filename: Windows6.1-KB958559-x64-RefreshPkg.msu | Filesize: 16.2 MB (17,091,624 bytes)

Thank you

I prefer VirtualBox. It works very well with Windows XP. Windows XP mode is not that good, and it is no longer available for download.

Still working. have you tried?

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Cesare said:

Windows XP mode is not that good, and it is no longer available for download.

No. I have not tried. I use VirtualBox and it works better. I prefer VirtualBox over anything else. It is so versatile as well.

I see.

my old C/C++ was running on Windows Virtual PC which was good for my apps.




@MisterEd

Anyway to run it on Windows 11? or 10?

Just tried. no go. Windows 7 only.

Only use the latest version of VirtualBox on Windows 10 and Windows 11 to get the very best of Windows XP running on VirtualBox.

I have downloaded VirtualBox and am testing it.

Do it include XP mode? or XP needs to be installed?

no problem, I have XP CD. well, it's noticed that VirtualBox takes only *iso.

If install, anyway to let VirtualBox installs XP from my CD?


Wait,
XP install media just 4xx MB. when my trying to download from archive.org, why the ios is some 5.1 GB?

I am glad to hear that you have downloaded and installed VirtualBox on your computer. VirtualBox is a guest virtual machine virtualization software. It does not come with any operating system at all. All you need to do, is to create a virtual machine yourself, then download a Windows XP iso from Archive.org and mount the iso to its virtual CD disk drive and reset the virtual machine to boot from the iso image file. Follow the instruction as you would usually do on a real host XP machine to install Windows XP on your virtual machine.

Before running the installation, you will need to go to your disk drive settings within your virtual machine to create a hard disk drive. Create a virtual hard disk drive of at least 4GB in size. Bear in mind that the maximum allowed hard disk drive capacity for Windows XP is 2TB because MBR only supports up to that size.

Please note that Archive.org have many versions of Windows XP. A typical unmodified version of Windows XP - SP1 to SP3 would consist of a file size of anywhere between 488MB to 650MB in size. If the iso you are attempting to download it 1GB or more, then it has been slipstreamed with updates to the operating system files. In some cases, some Windows XP iso files are 5GB or more due to tonnes of bloatware and unnecessary software which has been slipstreamed in the modified iso file.

If you are interested in making your own custom Windows XP iso file, you can use a free program called Nlite, which allowed you to either remove or add items in your Windows XP iso file. First, you will need to extract all the files and folders of the iso onto a folder location on your hard drive before performing any slipstreaming actions.

I am just like you, a great fan of Windows XP, and I have many different installations on Windows XP on virtual machines, using VirtualBox and even on some laptops as well. Windows XP shall always remain my all-time favourite version of Windows ever.

Good luck.

siliconbeaver said:

I see.
my old C/C++ was running on Windows Virtual PC which was good for my apps.
@MisterEd
Anyway to run it on Windows 11? or 10?
Just tried. no go. Windows 7 only.

Windows XP Mode is a free addon to Windows 7 Pro, Ultimate, or Enterprise only. It runs as a guest OS in Windows Virtual PC.
You can install Windows XP Mode in a Windows 7 Pro or Ultimate virtual machine on Windows 10 or Windows 11.

Note the download links for XP Mode still work. The only gotcha is you have to learn to work around the popup adds.

I have VMware Workstation Pro on my laptop with Windows 11 Pro. I created Windows 7 Pro virtual machine with it. In the Windows 7 virtual machine I installed XP Mode as seen in the screenshot below.



If you only want Windows XP you can create a virtual machine for it. Here is a Windows XP Pro virtual machine created in VMware Workstation Pro.