I bought a new W7 Pro laptop at home a while back, getting pro mainly for the XP mode. I used disk2vhd to create a vhd file from my old XP laptop (that I've wiped), copied it over, and thought I could replace the default .vhd in XP mode. But, after it just wouldn't work, some googling seemed to indicate that there is something special about the basic XP-mode freshly installed .vhd provided via the download, and that you HAVE to start clean from that, for anything you want to run or deploy-hence the licensing/activation issues. I also read something that you are only legal to run the clean-installed vhd as the "free" copy of XP, anything else and you have to license.
So, in my case, I found that most of the apps I wanted to run didn't come thru well anyway (games, video driver in XP mode is not that great), so even though I reinstalled some stuff, I don't really use it that much. I did end up mounting the .vhd file of my old computer in my W7 OS to access as a nice way to get to my old files though-that is a very cool new feature of W7 and R2. If you do come up with a legal way to do it though, please share! -Bonnie From: HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it] Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 10:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: R: How to restore XP Image in XP Mode The magic I am looking for is not being asked for activation of Windows! GuidoElia HELPPC ________________________________ Da: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Inviato: giovedì 16 settembre 2010 20.20 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: How to restore XP Image in XP Mode It's just a vhd. You back up the vhd and you restore the vhd. Nothing magic there... Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it] Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 1:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: How to restore XP Image in XP Mode And get license working without asking for activation ? Or Xp Mode in Win7 is intended only for fresh install ? TIA GuidoElia HELPPC ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
