Windows 7s XP Mode Will not Run on Some CPUs
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversoping to use Windows 7's XP Mode on your new laptop? Better check your specs, because many big-name, Intel-powered notebooks including Asus, Dell Studio, HP Pavilion, Sony Vaio, and Toshiba Satellite models may not have what it takes to run Windows 7's XP mode.
Featured in the recent Windows 7 release candidate, XP mode allows XP-specific applications to run inside Professional, Ultimate and Enterprise versions of Windows 7. Microsoft included XP mode to entice business customers to upgrade to Windows 7 even if they're using custom-made programs that run only on XP.
To run XP Mode, your Intel-powered computer must support Intel Virtualization Technology. Problem is, many Intel laptops found on retail shelves aren't packing Intel VT. Affected chips include Intel Celeron, Pentium Dual-Core, Pentium M, and Atom 270 and 280 processors. If you've got a Pentium D, Core, or Core 2 Duo chip you'll need to check your model number because P7350/7450, T1350, T2050/2250, T2300E/2350/2450, T5200/5250/5270/5300/5450/5470/5550/5670/5750/5800/5850/5870/5900 and T6400/6570 do not support VT, according to ZDNet. AMD-powered computers may also find difficulties running XP mode since Sempron processors and some Athlon 64 chips don't support virtualization.
That's a pretty big list of processors that can't support virtualization, so it's no surprise that many laptops will be frozen out of Windows 7's XP mode. However, for the everyday user this may not be as big an issue since XP Mode is targeted at a small segment of the market anyway -- gamers take note that XP mode was not built to support video games.
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pcworld.com
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Comments(5)
yea so we run to the store like madonna tries to adopt some rice and bean easter eater or
smth
no way guy which name sounds like kalasnikov if that xp stuppid assh0le vm mode
doesnt work on a 8808 or a gameboy not even the login shitly would care from w7 but this
bro cannot happen and also that xp mode is a 14 days old dead cheeseburger in the water
ppl with xp pcs are not gunna buy a new oe to run what xp app?
want me to give you some english lessons because the only language you know is s**t.
windows xp is a long old os. therefore we'll need a better os for this changing
techonology and to keep up with the work.
nowt wrong with xp - one of the best if not thee best os microshit ever produced. it
wouldn't be still being used 8 years after it was released if it was shit.
ea person to their own on using junk for 8 yrs. xp started at what win7 currently is, ms
kept taken away until they fini with the junk that xp still is.
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Some holy milkshake better say runs only at the pentygon pc
By Mosta Kody on 08.05.2009 - 22:05