Windows Xp nears End Of Life (THANK GOD!) Zero Day Forever April 8 2014

[J N Winkler]

I don't think 7 Home Premium has XP mode--I think you need to upgrade to Professional or Ultimate.  This issue came up when I was unable to get Microsoft Office 2000 Professional to install on 7 Home Premium using the compatibility mode that was available to me.

[vdeane]

XP mode is essentially a free virtualized copy of XP that comes with professional and ultimate.  It's really a virtual machine, but with some special configurations to make it seamless.

[SteveG1988]

If you still have your XP CD, install microsoft virtual PC, and run xp in it, you won't get the seamless running, but it will be avail

[vtk]

Personally, versus running an old OS in a virtual machine, I'd rather run it on a real machine if that option is available.

[SteveG1988]

Personally, versus running an old OS in a virtual machine, I'd rather run it on a real machine if that option is available.

Intel and AMD since 2007 have been selling processors optimized for virtulization. It allows the virtualized OS to run directly on the CPU instead of through another OS, or emulation

[algorerhythms]

Registry key enables updates for Windows XP...

[Scott5114]

Personally, versus running an old OS in a virtual machine, I'd rather run it on a real machine if that option is available.

This is ideal, but it the VM route can be more convenient in some ways (multitasking is easier, don't have to have a table set up with monitor/keyboard/mouse for the old computer, bootup is probably shorter since you don't have to wait for the BIOS or POST screen, etc...)

[Billy F 1988]

To me, I do beleive that XP is a bit of a sluggish hulk of an OS. The graphics were okay, but to do one task while going to open a new one almost simultaneously is nearly impossible for the CPU to handle. I've run into occurances of BSOD's on my work laptop.

I still have my Compaq desktop, but what it's doing is that when I have my Seagate 500 GB hard drive plugged in, on one occasion, when I take the tower off sleep mode, it will reboot without warning, meaning that since the device is USB 3.0 and the port is 2, it HATES it. Word to XP people: NEVER RUN A NEW USB DEVICE ON AN OLD XP COMPUTER!

So, in a nutshell, while it was good for a while, I believe XP's well beyond its shelf life, and soon Vista and 7 will be that way. Wait a few years and the same result will happen just like XP.