Windows Xp It has been, along with Windows 7, one of the operating systems most loved by users. This system first saw the light of day in 2001, and has been receiving updates and support until 2014, when it finally passed away. Nowadays, this operating system is very limited, and it can even give us security problems. But there are cases in which, yes or yes, we need it. But such an old system can be difficult to install if we do not meet a series of requirements.
Computer science has changed a lot from the early 2000s to now. Modern computers have much more secure technologies and systems than those of a decade ago. And older operating systems don’t support these technologies, so we probably can’t even make it. It doesn’t even start the installation in many cases.
In case you have to install a system as old as Windows XP, we can make this task easier by making sure that you meet a series of requirements and configurations. Although, we remember, it is not a guarantee of success.
How to install Windows XP on a new computer
Of course, the first thing we need to do is . Unlike Windows 10, Microsoft does not make it easy for us to download this image, so we must be careful where we download it. If we want to have as few compatibility problems as possible, what we should do is download the 64-bit ISO, preferably with the latest Service Pack. So we can have better compatibility with x64 systems, and also eliminate the restriction of 4 GB of RAM.
It is also necessary to configure the UEFI of our computer in legacy mode. If we have functions such as Secure Boot activated, we will not be able to install this OS. It also helps to reduce problems if our motherboard can set hard drives to IDE mode instead of in SATA mode, since XP does not have SATA drivers we will have to add them by hand during the installation.
Of course, the fewer peripherals we have connected to the computer, the fewer problems we will have. With a keyboard and a mouse connected by cable we should not have any problem. And, the older the computer’s hardware, the fewer compatibility problems we will have: installing it on an 11th generation Intel processor is not the same as installing it on a 4th generation processor, for example.
To install XP we will need an OS license key, since without it we will not be able to continue the installation. If we don’t have it at hand, we can use a generic Windows key, although we will have to activate it with the good key once the system is installed.
If we install Windows XP on a computer and connect it to the network, we must try to ensure that this computer is not on the LAN, since it could easily be used as a “nexus” to reach the rest of the PCs on the network.
Virtual machine: the best possible solution
Installing XP on a new machine is tricky. And the UEFI settings, if you can do it, can give us problems with other more modern systems, such as Windows 10. And, to be honest, it is rare to have to physically install this operating system on the PC. Therefore, the best solution is to choose where to install that system.
The virtual machine, which we can create with vmware either VirtualBox, it applies a compatibility layer so as not to have problems with this system, whatever our hardware. Also, because the virtual machine is isolated from the rest of the computer, the hackers that we will receive (because they will attack us through the many unfixed vulnerabilities in this OS) will not put our data at risk.
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