WXPMode_HowToGuide_RC.PDF

Running Windows XP Mode with

Windows Virtual PC

A How-to Guide for Small Businesses

Contents

Section 1: Introduction to Windows XP Mode for Windows 7

Section 2: Getting Started with Windows XP Mode

Section 3: Using Windows XP Applications in the Virtual Environment

Section 4: Working with Windows XP Mode

Section 5: Where to Find More Information

Section 1: Introduction to Windows XP Mode for Windows 7

Windows® XP Mode, a new benefit of Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate, helps small

businesses upgrade to Windows 7 by providing a Windows XP Mode environment capable of

running many Windows XP-compatible business and productivity applications. Using Windows

Virtual PC, a new feature in Windows 7, customers can run many older Windows XP business and

productivity applications within Windows XP Mode and launch them from the Windows 7 desktop

with just a single click.

Therefore, Windows XP Mode for Windows 7 gives you the best of both worlds: the ability to enjoy

the many benefits of Windows 7—such as increased security, productivity, and reliability— while

still getting the most from your Windows XP applications.

Run many of your older Windows XP applications on your Windows 7-based PC.

In this Guide, we’ll tell you about Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC for Windows 7. We’ll

show you how easy it is to install and run many of your Windows XP productivity applications

directly from your Windows 7 desktop; and we’ll talk about other new features that make working

with virtual machines more convenient than ever.

What’s new in Windows Virtual PC?

With the release of Windows 7, we are introducing a number of new features in Windows Virtual PC

designed to make it easier for you to run your legacy applications in a virtual software environment

like Windows XP Mode:

• Integration with Windows XP Mode setup (Windows XP Mode is a benefit of Windows 7

Professional, Ultimate and Enterprise)

• A new approach that intuitively incorporates Windows Virtual PC user interface (UI) into

that of your Windows 7 desktop

• The ability to use many of your USB devices from within a virtual Windows environment,

such as Windows XP Mode

• Seamless launching of Windows XP applications from your Windows 7 desktop, Start

Menu, or Taskbar

• Clipboard sharing, which enables you to cut, copy, and paste data between the host

Windows 7 desktop and the virtual machine

• Printer sharing between the Windows 7 desktop and the virtual Windows environment

• Drive sharing, which provides easy access to all host data from within the virtual machine

• Folder integration between operating environments

We’ll talk more about each of these new features in the sections to come.

Section 2: Getting Started with Windows XP Mode

Setting up your Windows 7-based PC to run Windows XP Mode is a simple and straightforward

process.

The first thing you’ll want to do is to check All Programs in your Start Menu to see whether

Windows Virtual PC is already set up on your machine.

Start Menu showing Windows XP Mode already set up.

• If you don’t already have Windows Virtual PC installed:

The first step is setup your PC environment for virtualization. Windows Virtual PC takes

advantage of hardware virtualization technology. To run Windows Virtual PC, your PC has

to have Intel® VT or AMD-V™ features enabled in the BIOS. To find out if your PC is

virtualization capable, visit the Windows Virtual PC support page (link:

www.microsoft.com/virtual-pc/support.aspx) or your manufacturer’s website for more

details.

With the hardware virtualization feature enabled, if Windows Virtual PC does not appear in

All Programs, you’ll need to download it, as well as Windows XP Mode, from the following

website:

www.microsoft.com/virtual-pc

Once you’ve downloaded these files, double click “W indows6.1‐KB958559‐x86.msu (or

x64-based on your system architecture).” Once it has finished installing, shut down your PC

fully and then restart. Once restarted, your PC’s Start Menu will include Windows Virtual

PC.

• If you already have Windows Virtual PC (or have just downloaded and installed it):

The next step is to install Windows XP Mode on a virtual machine (see next section).

• Installing Windows XP Mode:

If you have not already downloaded Windows XP Mode from the above link, do so now.

Double click “ WindowsXPMode.exe. ”

When installation is complete, go to All Programs and click on Windows XP Mode to begin

the set-up of your Windows XP Mode environment.

The set-up process for Windows XP Mode will take several minutes. During this time you

be asked to accept the Windows XP License Agreement, as well as to create a new

password and whether or not to receive Automatic Updates.

Windows XP Mode set-up process takes several steps.

Once the process is complete, you will see your new Windows XP Mode environment as a window

on your Windows 7 desktop.

An important consideration of working with virtualization technology is the fact that the user has

both the physical and virtual PC to maintain. Every PC requires a degree of maintenance including

but not limited to keeping the operating system and applications up to date with patches, virus and

malware protection, and backup. Windows XP Mode is pre-configured with the Windows XP

firewall and to apply updates automatically from Windows Update. It is not pre-configured with

anti-virus or anti-malware software, and both types of security software are recommended.

You can install and run applications within this Windows XP environment (known as Desktop Mode)

exactly as if you were running them on a Windows XP-based PC. If you like, you can expand the

Windows XP desktop to completely fill the screen (Full-Screen Desktop Mode) by clicking on the

Maximize button in the upper right corner of the window.

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