com /en-us /help /958559 /description-of-windows-virtual-pc You have now a working Windows XP virtual machine./ February 14, 2011 12 years ago ( ) Select if you want updates to be automatic or not:ĥ.8) Run the browser offline installer you added to VHD in step 3.5:ĥ.9) Browser installed, Opera in this example case: If you are shown some Found new hardware prompts, ignore them for now and click Cancel. This is done on the same OOBE page where you name the computer:ĥ.6) In next page, you can change the time zone:ĥ.7) OOBE continues. It is important to set up a password for it. To change them, I click Customize:ĥ.3) In Regional Options tab, I can change formats and location:ĥ.4) Switching to Languages tab, I click Details to change input method:ĥ.5) The XP Mode VM will be setup using the built-in administrator account (username Administrator). In my case, I wanted formats be UK English, location Finland, and input method to be my familiar Finnish keyboard layout. If you are OK with these, click Next in Regional and Language options.
First thing is, you must accept the license agreement.ĥ.2) The XP VM is in US English, default location USA, default input method US English keyboard, and default formats US (numbers, time and so on). Right click the VHD drive in File Explorer (This PC), and select Eject to dismount it:ĥ.1) First boot of your new Windows XP Mode VM goes through OOBE. Browse to folder Documents and Settings\All Users in mounted VHD, paste the downloaded browser offline installer:ģ.6) A mounted VHD cannot be used on a virtual machine. In my case now, the VHD was mounted as drive J. 130 is oldest listed on Opera archive, it works well in XP:ģ.4) Unblock the downloaded installer, right click it and select Copy.ģ.5) Right click the extracted VirtualXPVHD.vhd file, select Mount to open VHD in File Explorer. Download the oldest possible Opera offline installer:ģ.3) At the moment of writing this, version.
It is recommended that you add an offline installer for a browser to XP VHD file before using it on a virtual machine, and install it when VM is booted first time.ģ.2) Having difficulties to find out offline installer for old enough 32 bit version for Chrome and Firefox, I use Opera. It is so outdated, that you might not be able to use it to download a more recent IE version, or any third party browser. 3.1) The default browser in XP Mode is Internet Explorer version 6.
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