{"id":131,"date":"2015-08-29T14:31:26","date_gmt":"2015-08-29T14:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/info.ffteixeira.net\/2015\/08\/29\/run-windows-xp-for-free-in-windows-8\/"},"modified":"2015-08-29T14:31:26","modified_gmt":"2015-08-29T14:31:26","slug":"run-windows-xp-for-free-in-windows-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ffteixeira.net\/?p=131","title":{"rendered":"Run Windows XP for Free in Windows 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

The free WindowsXPMode_en-us.exe file, there's a VirtualXPVHD file containing the Windows XP virtual machine, which you can open in VirtualBox. Here are the steps to get this working:<\/p>\n

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  1. Download WindowsXPMode_en-us.exe from Microsoft<\/a>. You'll need to run the validation tool to prove your copy of Windows is valid.<\/li>\n
  2. Then use 7-Zip or another archive tool to open the EXE file as an archive.<\/li>\n
  3. Within that archive, find the "sources\/xpm" file within it, and extract that folder to your hard drive.<\/li>\n
  4. Finally, in the extracted xpm file, you'll find a file called VirtualXPVHD. Rename it with a VHD extension.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In VirtualBox, open the VirtualXPVHD virtual machine, and voila! You've got Windows XP Mode (running Windows XP Professional) in Windows 8, no need for the XP license.<\/p>\n

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    Credits<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The free WindowsXPMode_en-us.exe file, there's a VirtualXPVHD file containing the Windows XP virtual machine, which you can open in VirtualBox. Here are the steps to get this working: Download WindowsXPMode_en-us.exe from Microsoft. You'll need to run the validation tool to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/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":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ffteixeira.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ffteixeira.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ffteixeira.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ffteixeira.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ffteixeira.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ffteixeira.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ffteixeira.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ffteixeira.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ffteixeira.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}