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- Mar 28, 2019 To enter Safe Mode on your Mac computer, press and hold the Shift key as it boots up. In Windows 10 and Windows 8, you can hold Shift and click Restart to open the Troubleshooting menu and select Safe Mode. For Windows 7 and earlier, press.
- Jan 25, 2010 Click the Start Menu and use the path Start All Programs Windows Virtual PC Windows XP Mode. Type a password into the pop up box to use for your virtual machine, type again to verify, and click next. On the second screen, select the option to turn automatic updates on, and click next. Windows Virtual PC will now set up your XP Mode machine.
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.
Of course, another option is to run Windows on your Mac, via BootCamp or a virtual machine, which takes a little know-how and a lot of memory space on your Mac's hard drive. Read: Best way to run Windows on a Mac. How do you play your Windows games on Mac? Let us know in the comment below! Updated October 2019: Updated with the best options.
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. I do this by typing 'virtual' in the search box at the Start Menu. Confirm you are really powered down.
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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.
Hope this helps.
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