Notebooks & Netbooks

[hadodi]

Saqueador

hI, I am Michael from Austria, living here in Indonesia. I have a problem, but can not solve without help. On my Acer Aspire 4820TG I had to make a (successfull) recovery, upgraded then with original to Windows 7 Prof and wanted then install Virtual PC because I still have to get Windows XP (all my old mails are on OE6). I could remember that pressing F2 when starting the computer would bring me to BIOS and there I could enable Virtual.Tech. But it is not there. Very grateful for your advice. Michael

[JackE]

I suggest that you instead download and install VMWare's freeware player. I'm running Win98SE, WinXP, and SuSE Linux as virtuals on my Acer AO722 because of legacy hardware and software that don't operate well or at all on the newest Windows OSs. I can run all these virtual OSs at the same time on a single machine and communicate between them thru the network. VMPlayer doesn't mess with the bios. It's a very polished and capable virtual environment  See this wiki description

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware_Player and judge for yourself.

Jack E/NJ

[hadodi]

thks a lot, but I do not have anymore Windows xp, because it came when I downloaded 2 years ago the virt pc and xp. does this also work w the VMware player. sorry I am not a very comp person...

[hadodi]

sorry, disturbing again. but I did not find any FREE download of the vm, just for 99.99...Do you have a link?

[JackE]

https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/free#desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_player/3_0|PLAYER-316|produc...

I'd pick version 3 or 4 for your purposes.

Jack E/NJ

[hadodi]

thks a lot. will try

[hadodi]

Hi, it's me again. I see Vers3,4 and 5 for FREE. Which one you would suggest? Again, many thanks

[JackE]

Version 3 or 4 would probably be best for your purposes.

Jack E/NJ

[hadodi]

ok will try. lets hope. thks a lot

[hadodi]

Hello, unfortunately its me again. I followed your GREAT advice. Could download and install the VMPlayer, but am not completely stuck, because when I open it it asks for installing the XP from the Virtual CD!? How can I install the XP which I had downloaded from MS for the Windows Virtual Machine? Thanks again a lot and sorry for my ignorance