The king is dead, long live the king
XP dies on the 8th April 2014. Actually it doesn’t, it’s just that Microsoft is no longer going to support it.
While some made the move back in 2006 to Windows 7, many held back and are now looking going straight from Windows XP to Windows 8.
If you followed the expected path, Windows 7 included a virtual machine enabling old XP programmes to run despite a change of operating system.
Windows 8 does not include this as standard, but you can achieve the same result!
Step 1: download the tool allowing Windows 8 to pretend to be XP.
On the expensive version of Windows 8, this is available as part of the package and can just be installed, otherwise you need to get it from the Microsoft Download Centre at Client hyper-V . Client hyper-v will allow you to run XP and its programmes while still running Windows 8.
Download then install Client hyper-V.
The rest…
is covered in How to build a new XP VM.
Posted: November 12th, 2013 under Work.