For a laptop with a single Intel Celeron processor, can you run Windows XP mode on Windows 7 or does the Celeron chip not support that?
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For a laptop with a single Intel Celeron processor, can you run Windows XP mode on Windows 7 or does the Celeron chip not support that?
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XP Mode required CPU hardware support, which Intel has been very slow to implement. It is not standard on Pentium- and Core-branded CPUs, but it will not hit Celerons until 2010, excluding your current processor.
Sorry.
John
Are you referring to the need for the the CPU to be able to do hardware virtualization in order to run XP mode? I read an article to that effect. So now I'm looking for a list of what specific Celeron processors can do hardware virtualization.
More info here on XP Mode: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/support/faq.aspx
Enjoy Windows 7!