![]() ![]() Would you even consider having your PC working this way? With a "mother" OS having only IronCAD and Virtual PC running side by side, with all other programs running in the Virtual environment. To just in effect power off the virtual machine and lose any opened work not saved to disk: Look for and delete 'Windows XP Mode. MS is releasing Win 7 in the end of October as it looks today. ![]() It looks like MS have done a great job removing all the Win 7 RC files from the whole net. The only problem right now is where to find it. vhd file, and load the resulting file in HyperV or other hypervisor as suggested by several websites (that also have more. First of all, you can always download the XP Mode install file, extract the folder VirtualXPVHD, and put it into a. NOTE: Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode can be downloaded from the site. With a Virtual PC you have the whole PC as a "file" which even makes it easy to create backups, so you have a whole "Office-machine" as a file in other words! It also makes it a lot easier to even think about reinstalling the "mother" OS, because you then only have to install IronCAD and Virtual PC, then open the "office-machine" file in the Virtual PC program!Īs soon as I can get my hands on an installer for Windows 7 64-bit I will format my hdd and install it to have a real try. It is true that Windows 10 does not include XP Mode, but there are ways to get a XP VM. To use Windows XP Mode we must have the following prerequisites: Windows 7 (Professional, Ultimate, or Enterprise) Virtual PC Windows. Microsoft are even letting you download a virtual Win XP for free for this purpose. That way you can have IronCAD taking all the resources it needs directly in Win 7, more than 3GB RAM in the 64-bit version for example, while all the other programs are running on "virtual" hardware, not really interfering with IronCAD and vice versa. In the Virtual PC environment you run another Windows session (Win XP) where you have the rest of your needed programs running. ![]() I believe that the "new" things is to have your PC running an almost empty Windows 7 install, having only IronCAD and Virtual PC installed to it. We've been discussing this here at work and I would like to share our thoughts, to get some fresh ideas and questions from you guys! ![]()
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