Microsoft is offering the free XP and Vista operating systems as VHDs for content developers and designers that need to test websites on several versions of Internet Explorer. This means that the XP SP2 copies can be used for approximately three months, as they will all expire in September 2008, more specifically on September 9. The only catch is that all three downloads are time-bombed.
Microsoft informed that all the XP clients had been pre-activated, and in this context, users no longer have to deal with the activation process or with a license, other than the one provided by default with the releases. Users will essentially be able to build three virtual machines under Virtual PX 2007, and run each version of XP SP2 as a guest operating system.
#Windows xp sp5 Pc#
All versions of the operating system are served as Virtual Hard Disk images designed for integration with Virtual PC 2007, Microsoft's also free virtualization solution. The VPC label is a clue pointing to the packaging Microsoft has chosen. IE6-XPSP2_VPC.exe, IE7-XPSP2_VPC.exe and IE8B1-XPSP2_VPC.exe are the XP SP2 releases made available for download. No less than three different versions of Windows XP SP2 can be downloaded from Microsoft without users having to empty their pockets.
#Windows xp sp5 plus#
In this context, both XP SP2 and Vista RTM can be downloaded side by side, with Microsoft steering clear so far of offering the two operating systems, plus their latest service packs, namely SP3 for XP and SP1 for Vista. The Redmond company is simply marking a new chapter of what has become a tradition of free Windows client offerings. The free variants of XP SP2 have been made available together with a version of Windows Vista RTM, also up for grabs at no charge.
Run SETUPSP5.EXE and let Service Pack 5 finish installing.Free, pre-activated copies of Windows XP Service Pack 2 are available for download straight from Microsoft. Those lines are as follows: 36 Depend "27 ? : 37"ģ7 IsWin95 CustomAction "sp598ent.dll,CheckForMDAC" For completeness, you can possibly remove step 36 (and 37) entirely, but this has worked for me once but not the second time i tried this. (OLE Viewer caused problems.)Įxtract (or copy from CD) Service Pack 5 files to a folder. I ended up installing InterDev and VC++ with some misc.
#Windows xp sp5 install#
Do a custom install and deselect Visual Studio Analyzer, along with anything else you don't need. Essentially you have to hand edit the STF file for VS6 Service Pack 5 to skip the MDAC check. Though this isn't supported and you get the normal warnings about maybe not working on Windows 7, but i now have it installed and compiling.įound a solution to this that actually works well. To double not implemented, use signed _int64 But SP5 still fails with this:Īny ideas on getting VS6 + SP5 + PP installed correctly?ĮDIT: Alternatively, any way to get VS6 (or just VC6) + SP6 + PP installed correctly? Processor Pack refuses to install on SP6, insisting on SP5.ĮDIT: I found a KB article suggesting a registry change, and that got SP6 + PP installed, but i'm getting this error, which is apparently indicates that PP isn't installed: -Configuration: test - Win32 Debug-Ĭ:\svn\test\test.cpp(127) : error C2520: conversion from unsigned _int64 All run through the little extract progress dialog and appear to finish. It is now complaining that MDAC 2.5 or 2.6 needs to be installed first. I uninstalled VS6 and re-installed VS6 and am trying to install SP5.
#Windows xp sp5 windows 7#
Need to get Visual Studio 6 Processor Pack installed on Windows 7 (32 bit).įirst i installed VS6 + SP6, which prevents the PP from installing.
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