dombanks Posted August 5, 2011 Posted August 5, 2011 is it possible to install winXP on a brand new acer pc that came with win 7 64bit on it.... win 7 doesnt need to be retained just get XP on it. i dont know much of the spec of the acer apart from its got a i3 processor and 3gb ram in it. the reason for this (to avoid any of the why etc type questions) is there is a peice of kit in a friends lab that the pc broke on. they tried another old dell but the company that wrote the crappy software claims dell pcs have "compatibility" issues and suggested that acers are ok. so they bought a new acer and now the crappy complany claim the software wont run on win 7. edt:she phoned the acer help line and they basically said errr dunno why? Quote
SparkyB Posted August 5, 2011 Posted August 5, 2011 No reason you can't format and start from scratch....only potential pitfall is finding xp drivers for all the hardware, but as long as you can find a video driver you should at least be able to use it for what you want without it being painfully slow. Quote
Captain Colonial Posted August 5, 2011 Posted August 5, 2011 Doesn't Win7 have a XP Compatability Mode for older programs? I seem to remember once the program is installed, you right click on the desktop icon and select Use XP Compatability Mode or summat like that for these things. Quote
blankczechbook Posted August 5, 2011 Posted August 5, 2011 you might even need to install in compatibility mode in some cases.. worth a try. Quote
pete275 Posted August 5, 2011 Posted August 5, 2011 XP compatibility Mode is a Virtual Machine that runs inside Windows 7. Its only available on ultimate, professional and business AFAIK. Free download provided you have al license for one of the above versions. If you have home edition then you're out of luck. HTH Quote
Blatman Posted August 9, 2011 Posted August 9, 2011 Use Virtual Box if you haven't got Windows 7 Pro, Enterprise or Ultimate which, as mentioned, have the ability to run in "XP mode". Download and install Virtual Box. Run the programme. Insert the disc for whatever operating system you would like to run. Make some choices about how much of the systems resources you'd like to dedicate to the virtual machine. Install (in your case) Windows XP just like you would on a normal hard drive. YES, you'll need a valid licence key. You'll find it on a sticker on the dead machine... Run the XP machine in Virtual Box as if it was a proper PC. It'll even find it's own way to the intrnet for drivers and updates etc etc... Quote
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