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Thread ID: 135889	2013-12-23 19:28:00	Recreate XP on a Win 7 machine.	Bryan (147)	Press F1

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1363416	2013-12-23 19:28:00	Because I have time on my hands and for posterity I thought yesterday that I would recreate XP on a separate IDE drive on my PC. Ran into several problems but worked most of them out. It is XP Home and I found that after installing both SP1 and SP2 (I had both on CD issued by MS) I could not access the MS update service. Something about not able to connect although I was able to connect to other Internet services. It would appear that it is something to do with having IE6 installed but when I install IE8 same problem. I had much earlier downloaded to USB a copy of the XP SP3 but I get a wrong version for WIN32? Anyone got any ideas as to how I should proceed. I will be using a clean, formatted HHD. And how do I get around keeping WIN7 as the boot drive and it not being taken over by the new XP setup?	Bryan (147)
1363417	2013-12-23 19:52:00	Normally you install the earliest OS to the latest version of windows. Not the other way round. There's only one version of SP3 for XP and it is 32 bit. XP wont be easy to update, once you install it. Even if you install it in XP mode (if you use Win 7 Pro). I just finished helping someone in Oz with a laptop (trying to do a clean install of XP). It took AGES. Because, there's so many versions of IE (6,7 and 8). Every time you try to update it or go to the windowsupdate site, it'll hang. Because, one of windows files (svchost) will make the CPU usage go to 100% constantly. And windowsupdate will never finish scanning for updates. This prob has been around since Sept-Oct this year. When MS releases windows updates I had to install the latest IE6 cumulative update from this month first (I tried to install IE8, but the install never finished). Then install IE8 and then the IE8 cumulative update for this mth. This took forever. It took me 2 days instead of a few hours, to finally get XP up to date on this laptop If you can update XP (thats if you can install it, if Win7 is installed already). You boot into Win7 and make it the default OS	Speedy Gonzales (78)
1363418	2013-12-23 20:01:00	Oh dear! Thanks for that Speedy - I think I may as well just not bother then.	Bryan (147)
1363419	2013-12-23 22:35:00	you do know that there is a fully functional XP mode within a vm which is made for win 7 (but not home version unfortunately) Once installed, you can run XP from within win 7 have a look here windows.microsoft.com	bevy121 (117)
1363420	2013-12-23 22:50:00	It'll do the same thing. If you dont do it properly it'll still hang when you try to update it	Speedy Gonzales (78)
1363421	2013-12-24 01:18:00	Anyone got any ideas as to how I should proceed. Personally I wouldn't bother. It's not antique just last model....you want Nostalgia, install DOS, or Win3 or something hilarious.	pctek (84)
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