Can You Still Get Windows XP?

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prowla wrote: »

I think that needs some qualification - obviously not all AMD CPUs have hardware virtualization support.

Not that it matters because XP Mode does not require it to run.

prowla

anewhope wrote: »

Not that it matters because XP Mode does not require it to run.

Yup - the conversation seemed to have morphed first into how to run XP programs in Windows 7 and then into one about virtual machines (I run XP in a VM on my Windows 7 machine to work with some old peripherals rather than faffing around with compatibility mode and malarky).

Of course, the OP just wanted to install XP. (And back to that, it may be that XP won't support some of the hardware, so it's a bit of a catch-22.)

And back to the OP, it is easy to pick up an XP COA for a fiver, and then pick up a copy of the media.

Ben84

Frankly, they're not the only ones. A lot of the modern computer courses and guides I've seen are hopeless at teaching anything transferable or conceptual about computers and how they operate. They often teach people to perform highly repetitive, limited tasks in specific versions of GUI software with little or no explanation of the concepts behind what the user is actually doing or looking at.

My mother did a well regarded adult beginner's computer course some time ago and was completely stuck the moment she changed software because of this teaching style. I explained the general concepts, for example what is a hard drive and how does the internet work and she's fine now with using different computers because it's no longer about software alone, it's about accessing the computer through the software and looking for how the specific version she's using might do that.