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Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| Windows 'XP Mode': the New DOS Box Overall, the XP mode end-user experience is uneven, with plenty of opportunities for novices to get confused as they navigate between physical and virtual applications and resources. Add to this the support requirements of maintaining two completely disparate OS images per system, and XP mode may be more trouble than it's worth. Still, there's something alluring about getting a free, licensed copy of Windows XP on which to run your troublesome legacy apps. Kudos to Microsoft for at least trying to address the legacy compatibility issue, even if the resulting solution is at best a kind of inelegant kludge. http://www.cio.com/article/491778/Wi...omyId= 168354
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| they need to test games with XP mode |
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| I agree, XP mode is meant for business for backward compatibility of old apps which simply can't be patch to work with Windows 7. Currently have Virtual PC 2007 installed with WinXP image and Win7 image; works nicely; what XP mode will do is enable remote desktop on the XP install, and access all apps as if the VM install is a terminal server; of course there's a performance impact, the author of that article should not be surprised, I think a 30% performance hit is far from bad for running another copy of an OS inside your main OS.
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| I wonder wether certain hardware like tv cards, that didn't work anymore under Vista because of driver issues, can be used again in this XP mode. |
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| these won't run on XP either you'll need VMDsound http://www.dosgames.com/xphints.php
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