Sep 05, 2017 Hi, XP Mode was introduced for Windows 7 (Professional, Enterprise, or Ultimate) users as a way to run software designed for XP in Windows 7. Since Wiindows 8 or 10 does not support XP Mode, we'll need to extract the virtual hard drive included in XP Mode and run it as a virtual machine. 2.1) Right click the downloaded WindowsXPModeen-us.exe file, select Properties, unblock the file : 2.2) Open the Windows XP Mode EXE archive in 7-Zip: 2.3) In 7-Zip, browse to Sources folder of the archive, select file xpm, click Extract, select where you want to extract the file, click OK.

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One of the great things about Windows 7 is 'Windows XP Mode' which is basically that you get a copy of Windows XP that runs under Windows Virtual PC. It can run 'seamlessly' which means you can run XP apps within the VM under Windows 7 with complete compatibility and it looks like the apps are running under Windows 7 itself. They are in the Start Menu and you don't have a 'VM Window' like you usually see.

Run Zinstall WinWin on your old XP computer (the one you are transferring from). Note: You can download WinWin here, and its user guide here. Run Zinstall WinWin on the new Windows 10 computer You don't need to do any configurations for the computers to connect - it's automatic. The world is your oyster when you play MovieStarPlanet on Mac or PC. MovieStarPlanet is the place where you can chase your dreams and become one of the largest movie stars in the world. With that kind of fame comes quite a few awesome perks. Windows XP Mode for Windows 7 makes it easy run many of your productivity programs that run on Windows XP on Windows 7. It uses virtualization technology such as Windows Virtual PC to provide a Virtual Windows XP environment for Windows 7. Windows XP Mode provides a 32-bit virtual Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 (SP3) environment.

However, in order to save disk space and allow folks to have a base image and multiple XP images, the default disk setting for XP Mode is 'differencing.' That means that there's a base Windows XP Mode 'base' VHD file in 'C:Program FilesWindows XP ModeWindows XP Mode base.vhd.' This file is the base that your instance of Windows XP is, ahem, based on.

If you want to move your Windows XP Mode Virtual Machine to another box, as I did tonight, you might get an error like:

..one of the parent hard disks is missing..

This means that the VM you moved can't find the base disk.

So the question is, how can you make your Windows XP Mode VHD more portable?

First, shut down your VM. Don't hibernate it, actually shut it down. They really want you to hibernate. To shut down, launch the main virtual machine and click the Ctrl+Alt+Del top level menu item, then select Shut Down.

Next, go to the Virtual Machines folder. Unblocked inspect elementunblocked evrything. I do this by typing 'virtual' in the search box at the Start Menu. Confirm you are really powered down.

Next, right click your VM and select Settings, then click the Hard Disk 1 option on the left.

See how it has a Virtual hard disk file then a Parent Disk? Now click Modify.

From this dialog, click Merge. We are going to Merge the two disks into one disk so we can move it to another machine.

You can choose to do this in place, or make a new file somewhere, which is what I did.

Note that if you change the name of your VHD file, you may need to hook it up again in your VMC file (your Virtual Machine settings) when you move your disk to the other machine. Alternatively, you can open up the .vmc file in notepad and carefully change the name of the VHD it thinks it's pointing two in two places.

Last note, you'll likely be prompted for a Name and Password to log into your Windows XP VM on your new machine. You'll need to remember your password, but chances are your username is XPMUser. That's tricky.

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Hope this helps.

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