XP Mode for Home Premium!

Well that's just plain nasty; they dangle the carrot and then snatch it away.

So it let's you download but not install. Mean, mean.

Worse
It lets you download and install but not run it.

As soon as you click to run XP Mode for first use that message pops up.

It's just a ploy to check our validation! What a pain in the arse!

I had no idea of this, or I would've not posted it. Before, you couldn't even get the download once you selected Home Premium as your OS. That's what surprised me about the outcome, it wouldn't allow a Starter user to download it, but a Home Premium user can. Weird.

I'll be getting with the one who told me about this, and let him know that his source of info isn't reliable.

In the meantime, this reminded me of a thread shortly after I joined this forum. There is a way to get a virtual XP, for free.

XP Mode in Windows 7 without Hardware Virtualization

It's been a year since I've done it, but it did work. The download for the player requires registration, the download for XP Mode does not, it's a straight link. It's kind of a VirtualBox lookalike.

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