Installing Windows Virtual PC on Windows 7 Home Editions

re: Installing Windows Virtual PC on Windows 7 Home Editions

Rick — Sun, 12 May 2013 16:46:02 GMT

Student from Wisconsin. Thanks, this did clear this matter up. Now to do some virtualization.

re: Installing Windows Virtual PC on Windows 7 Home Editions

Help — Sun, 05 May 2013 04:56:00 GMT

After doing what "it works" says I got a small window which is black inside with gray words & numbers which did a few things for a while and then it said "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or insert Boot Media in selected Boot device"

please help

Oh and also the disk I used was a Windows 95 upgrade disk and maybe it didn't work because it was an upgrade and not just the actual full thing

re: Installing Windows Virtual PC on Windows 7 Home Editions

it works — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 22:38:29 GMT

I have windows 7 64bit and i downloaded from the link validated my windows like it told me entered the code and it allowed me to download windows Vpc . then after that i restarted my computer. clicked on windows vurtual pc it opend up a black folder basicly but at the top near the search bar it says create new vpc i clicked that wrote a name for it basicly clicked yes on every thing from there . then it now shows that i have a virtual pc. ok so stop!!! take all that in. ok now go find your windows xp copy or windows vista what ever your trying to make VPC pf and insert into your disc drive. dont let it load click exit if it does. no click your new VPC that is now inside that originally blank folder all of yall have bitched about. click on it and it should automatically run the disk and no you can instal windows on your VPC and walah all done. its simple. btw i dont care about my spelling.

re: Installing Windows Virtual PC on Windows 7 Home Editions

Aidan — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 23:38:00 GMT

I managed to get the program installed. But when I created my machine it told me to reboot using a proper boot device. Odd, I'm running a 64 bit Windows 7 Home Premium, HAs anyone else gotten it to work on theres?

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end user — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:27:47 GMT

This is an obvious ploy to trick people into buying something more expensive than windows 7 home. Typical.

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Cecile — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 22:35:01 GMT

Re: run the program C:\Windows\System32\VPCWizard.exe to start the wizard to create a VM

I did that and got an error message "The application has requested Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way"

re: Installing Windows Virtual PC on Windows 7 Home Editions

Cecile — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 22:32:14 GMT

Ran VPCwizard and got the message

"The application has requested Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way."

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Cecile — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 22:24:31 GMT

I downloaded and tried to install Windows6.1-KB958559-x64-RefreshPkg.msu

It said "update not applicable to your computer" and didn't install, although I'm running Home Premium Win 7 on a 1 year old HP laptop. I already ran the HAV detection tool which said the computer was able and BIOS turned on. What could be wrong?

re: Installing Windows Virtual PC on Windows 7 Home Editions

Victor — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:58:48 GMT

I think it's a sales strategy from Microsoft to encourage purchase of Windows 7 pro (and upwards). It makes sense to me to confuse the average user by trying to paint a picture of "Windows XP mode" and "Virtual PC" as "different". Once you figure out that XP mode is only pre-configured, then you're good to go.

re: Installing Windows Virtual PC on Windows 7 Home Editions

Costas — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 18:56:18 GMT

Prior to downloading VirtualPC, I am being asked to run the Gennuine Validation routine. When I do, I get the massage I need to download the latest version of GennuineCheck software. Where can I find it...