{"id":1068,"date":"2012-12-27T18:31:10","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T18:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2012-12-27T18:31:10","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T18:31:10","slug":"how-to-run-windows-xp-in-windows-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/?p=1068","title":{"rendered":"How to Run Windows XP in Windows 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 7 gives option to run Windows XP mode, and this feature is not included to Windows 8. So if you want to run Windows XP in a virtual machine on Windows 8 then you have to purchase license first to do that. But here is a tip that let you people help to run Windows XP in Windows 8 to work with old XP applications for free.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.trickyways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/xp-in-windows8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.trickyways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/xp-in-windows8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Run Windows XP in Windows 8<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Requirements:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Download <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/download\/details.aspx?id=8002\" target=\"_blank\">WindowsXPMode_en-us.exe<\/a>, which requires a prove that you must have a valid Windows 8 installed<\/li>\n<li>Download <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/wiki\/Downloads\" target=\"_blank\">Virtualbox<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Step-1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Use an archive tool to open downloaded WindowsXPMode_en-us.exe file as an archive<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step-2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Access \u201csources\/xpm\u201d file inside the opened archive and extract that folder to your computer<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step-3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In \u201cxpm\u201d folder you will find \u201cVirtualXPVHD\u201d file, you have to rename it with VHD extension<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step-4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Install Virtualbox and open renamed \u201cVirtualXPVHD\u201d file there<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy, you are running Windows XP in Windows 8 for free without purchasing any license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 7 gives option to run Windows XP mode, and this feature is not included to Windows 8. So if you want to run Windows XP in a virtual machine on Windows 8 then you have to purchase license first to do that. But here is a tip that let you people help to run [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-win_8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1070,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions\/1070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}