This is more of a statement than a question, but it might help those of us who will continue to use
XP as a Guest O/S after next mid-April. And maybe someone will have some advice.
Recently, I had to reinstall Win 7. Despite its saving most
Program files, I had to reinstall VMWare from my
external HD list [I put all my created and downloaded files there] of
programs and the XP HE from its disk. Something I never had thought of up till now, with loads of
Updates getting jammed in the pipeline and taking days to install, was that I should have backed up
XP, using the ntbackup that can be installed from the XP CD. This is now crucial, as there won't be any
Support for XP soon enough. I only need
XP for running old, Win 7-incompatible programs that I'm used to and can't afford to update.
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XP as a Guest O/S after next mid-April. And maybe someone will have some advice.
Recently, I had to reinstall Win 7. Despite its saving most
Program files, I had to reinstall VMWare from my
external HD list [I put all my created and downloaded files there] of
programs and the XP HE from its disk. Something I never had thought of up till now, with loads of
Updates getting jammed in the pipeline and taking days to install, was that I should have backed up
XP, using the ntbackup that can be installed from the XP CD. This is now crucial, as there won't be any
Support for XP soon enough. I only need
XP for running old, Win 7-incompatible programs that I'm used to and can't afford to update.
View this thread