After several days of Windows 7 release, I believe many of my friends have already used it. A little different from the previous Windows, Windows 7 carries a special feature: Windows XP Mode, also known as XP compatibility mode, which is specially designed to solve some applications that are incompatible under Windows 7. Through it, these applications may get run in XP compatibility mode.
Windows 7, October 22, 2009
In fact, this XP compatibility mode is a Windows XP virtual machine, but it is somewhat different from a normal virtual machine: it provides XP compatibility. A working method in which the mode application integrates seamlessly with the outside Windows 7 environment, hiding the operating interface of the virtual machine. This is undoubtedly more convenient for the application.
However, it is not easy to use this function. In fact, many people just use it like a normal virtual machine, so its selling point is greatly reduced. How to use Windows XP XP compatibility mode? This article is to answer this question.
First of all, this article assumes that users have XP compatibility mode installation conditions (CPU supporting VT/AMD-V technology) and have installed XP compatibility mode (including patches and virtual machines) :), if you need to see the installation If you want to use the software in XP compatibility mode, you should first open the XP compatible mode virtual machine to install the software. Note that it is not on your physical machine -_-!
Install Sandboxie 3.40
Although XP compatibility mode is prepared for some compatibility issues, you can load any application. However, in order to demonstrate the power of compatibility mode, the author still picks up a software that the host can't use: Sandboxie 3.40, which is a sandbox program. As a container, the sandbox isolates the running program from the outside world and can be used to test What kind of virus is not worried about external machine poisoning. In fact, it is a virtual machine with different levels. Because it contains virtual drivers, it cannot be installed on the 64-bit Windows 7 of the author. For the same reason, the 64-bit software is no longer being developed.
Installation...
Automatically detect remote desktop environments used by virtual machines
In fact, XP compatibility mode is different from normal virtual machines in that it is based on remote desktops. I made a few changes above, and I will talk about it later.
Manually running Sandboxie in a virtual machine is no problem...but this does not reflect the advantages of XP compatibility mode~
The advantage of XP compatibility mode is: You are in a virtual machine Inside the installed app, you can see and click on the menu on the outside Windows 7 host to run
click on the Sandboxie app installed in the front list...
Then...when your When the virtual machine is not closed, there will be this prompt