Application Support
Windows XP Mode with Windows Virtual PC
- Virtual PC product
- Free from Microsoft
- Allows the creation of a virtual computer system that runs as an application hosted on Windows 7
- Allows a user to run an older version of Windows inside the virtual computer
- Shares the computer's hardware with Windows 7
- Windows XP Mode
- Allows the applications installed in the Windows Virtual machine to show up on the Windows 7 Start Menu
- When a user selects the application from the Start Menu, the Windows XP virtual machine runs the application and the user is not aware that a second operating system is actually running it.