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Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC

Download Windows Virtual PC RC and Windows XP Mode RC

Windows Virtual PC provides the capability to run multiple Windows environments such as Windows XP Mode from your Windows 7 desktop. To download Windows Virtual PC and the Windows XP Mode environment, please follow the steps below. For information on how to set up Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode, check out Running Windows Virtual PC with Windows XP Mode in the Documentation section.


Windows XP Mode will only run on Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Ultimate editions and requires a virtualization engine, such as Windows Virtual PC.

Note: Beta to RC upgrade is not supported. You need to uninstall the Beta version of Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode before installing the RC bits.

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I have been testing the beta version of XP Mode for several months on Windows 7 RC x64.


My (1) 16 bit application runs fine on Windows 7 x86 but won't run on the x64 flavor, but it runs fine in the XP Mode installed on the Windows 7 x64 partition

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Beware those of you who do not have virtualization enabled processors. XP Mode will not run on the Atom or the Core 2 Duo E7400.