{"id":187,"date":"2009-05-01T15:44:20","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T20:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scripts.mit.edu\/~zong\/wpress\/?p=187"},"modified":"2009-05-01T15:49:05","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T20:49:05","slug":"virtual-mode-for-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/?p=187","title":{"rendered":"Virtual mode for Windows 7?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channelregister.co.uk\/2009\/05\/01\/windows_7_xp_mode_review\/\">this<\/a> a joke? <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWindows XP Mode is an add-on for Windows 7 Professional and higher that comes in two parts, each of which has its own setup. The first is Windows Virtual PC, a new version of Microsoft&#8217;s free desktop virtualization platform, and the second is Virtual Windows XP itself, which is a <strong>virtual hard drive pre-loaded and licensed with Windows XP Service Pack 3<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The magic happens when you then close Virtual XP. Windows 7 whirs and grinds and creates a new Start Menu group called Virtual Windows XP Applications, in my case full of Office 2000 applications. I started Word 2000, <strong>and after a couple of minutes&#8217; initialization<\/strong>, it opened in its own window, just like a native application. Impressive, until I started typing and found a severe delay between striking a key and text appearing on the page. (Edit: the couple of minutes are for booting Windows XP in the virtual machine?)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just me or is this an incredible kludge? If the integration is that weak, it probably makes sense to just let the virtual machine be transparent rather than be a sleight-of-hand.<\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When you shut down Windows 7 after using Windows XP Mode, the virtual machine hibernates by default, which is convenient but could in time lead to degraded performance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bad idea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this a joke? Windows XP Mode is an add-on for Windows 7 Professional and higher that comes in two parts, each of which has its own setup. The first is Windows Virtual PC, a new version of Microsoft&#8217;s free desktop virtualization platform, and the second is Virtual Windows XP itself, which is a virtual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[252,1121,865,869,867,863,866,864,868,862],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-desktop","tag-machine","tag-menu-group","tag-microsoft","tag-second","tag-sleight-of-hand","tag-virtual-mode","tag-virtual-windows","tag-virtualization","tag-windows-xp-service-pack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}