Installing Windows XP Mode in VMware Workstation Player

At current it is relatively difficult to setup a Windows XP Virtual Machine due to lack of official installation media, product keys and Microsoft Product Activation. In this video we will look at instead downloading Windows XP Mode, extracting the Virtual Machine and creating a new Windows XP Machine within VMware workstation player. We will then add the XP Mode Virtual Hard Drive to the Virtual Machine and remove the original. We will need to modify the Virtual Machine Configuration File to do that using notepad++. Unfortunately the Windows XP Mode VM has a mouse driver which doesn’t play well with VMware Workstation Player so we need to install Windows XP Mode using a keyboard only. We can then remove this driver and instead install VMware Tools to get full functionality.

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