DAMN YOU TOSHIBA..and Probably Microsoft

I JUST NOW days before I'm supposed to get windows 7 find out that The upgrade they're sending me Home premium DOES NOT come with XP MODE....

It's lacking all the cool features for that matter

BLAH CURSE YOU MICROSOFT....

*growls....*

 

Might as well curse whatever grammar checker you used, while you're at it.

 

lol gaijinpunch, you're such an asshole, but i love you xD.

 

XP Mode sucks anyway, it's based on VM.
So basically you can just run a VM of a genuine XP installation to run your old apps.
Virtual PC is for free.

 

That I am! What happened to your help a brudda out thread?

 

He acted like too much of a retard and someone (me) deleted it.

 

Well that makes me feel alittle better.

But Vista Home premium is also missing Presentation Mode (WHY? Vista Home premium has it...) The other features that I won't bother listing sound cool too...

BUT BLAH...I was looking foward to having Virtual XP mode.. now I may have to GULP actually pay for Windows 7 ultimate...

Well I guess I can't complain too much, It was a free upgrade disc.

 

Does your processor even support the hardware virtualization or whatever it is?

 

So what specifically do you want to use XP mode for?

I am running win7 for quite a while now and havn't found anything that needed xp comp. mode. but thats me off course.

 

Dude. home premium is the low-end version. What made you think it will have more features?? Always check MS's site...

More of user error than the company's fault...

 

Vista home premium came with my laptop I didn't see anything in Business that I needed.

Then I think maybe I'll get some nice extras with WIN7 then I heard about Virtual XP mode and I don't know if I'll need it but it's a nice thing to have.

Point is though they didn't give me a version choice in the upgrade. It's bad enough laptops make you create your own recovery discs now the least they could've done is given me a choice

 

Again, what processor does your laptop even have? To see if it would even work if you had picked out the right Vista combo:
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-xp-mode-virtualization-intel,7709.html

 

But do you have the hardware required to use virtualization feature?

 

It will be a nice thing to have even though you dont know what it does, if you can run it, or if you even need it.

 

Trust me, you won't need it.

 

I have a 2 ghz 64 bit dual core Centrino

 

Why don't you take this as an opportunity to switch to something else, like Haiku for example...

 

You clearly dont understand this then.

Edit: umm you edited your post just as i quoted it. It did read "im sure thats enough to run it"

 

well this was reassuring

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=1128&tag=rbxccnbzd1

 

Found a post...
"Download everest and under CPUID is a item calles Secure Virtual Machine Extension., if its supported you have AMD-V and are able to use XP-virtual-moder"