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[Help] XP in a virtual PC

Aad Moerman

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I have Windows 7 on my PC.
I use some old software that needs XP, so I had this installed in a virtual machine on my PC. It works good.
Now Windows 10 is introduced, but this doesn’t support a virtual machine.
Has someone a suggestion what the best solution is? Due to my handicap, I can use only one PC.

o_O
 

Majestic

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Probably not to use Win 10 would be my suggestion. Roll back to an earlier version of Windows mate.
 

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Win10 lets you roll back to your 7 or 8 install through Settings -> Update & Security. It purges the backup a couple months after upgrading, though, or if you use the "Reset this PC" feature to reinstall 10.

You could also try a dual boot setup, but you would probably need to edit your partitions. I don't think Windows has a good way to do that, but Linux does. There's even a distro or two that is designed specifically to run that one utility and is small enough to fit on CD or even a 500MB thumb drive. Editing partition sizes is also risky. If you cut it down too small, you will lose data, and there's the possibility for it to happen anyway.

Lastly, there are virtual machines available for all versions of Linux and they can run XP. I'm not sure how good they are since I've never used one, though. There's also Wine for Linux. It supplies everything necessary for a Windows environment so that Windows programs effectively run natively on Linux, but it's not perfect and it's hard to say if something will run on a specific system without installing it and trying it out.
 
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