Windows 7′s XP Mode will only work on select Sony Laptops
Windows 7′s XP Mode will not work on all Sony laptops that have hardware virtualization capability, despite being equipped with fully capable Intel Core 2 Duos. According to Gizmodo, this move was made after Sony faced much negative criticism from its original decision to disable virtualization across all its current Vaio model laptops.
Xavier Lauwaert, Senior Manager Product Marketing at Sony, stated two primary reasons for disabling VT in a comment over at the Windows Team Blog:
Contrary to perceived opinion, we have received very little if any requests to enable VT technology up until very recently.
In addition, our engineers and QA people were very concerned that enabling VT would expose our systems to malicious code that could go very deep in the Operating System structure of the PC and completely disable the latter.
Another user called Levicki in the same article claims that he has been able to enable VT-technology on Sony VAIO laptops despite the lock placed by Sony. His website is located here.
Gizmodo also spotted “online guides that claim to run through re-enabling hardware virtualization on Vaio laptops that use either a Phoenix BIOS, or the Insyde H2O UEFI framework (like the Vaio Z).”
Disclaimer: I have not tested any patches on the website. Windows7Center is not responsible for any harm that may be caused by the patch.
Windows XP Mode was designed to ease the transition from XP to Windows 7 by allowing support for legacy apps seamlessly on the same desktop.<
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Just one more reason I will not buy sony computers.
Sony – still making proprietary shit and telling you what you can and can’t do with it.
You’d be a mug to ever by a Vaio anyway. Their return rate is almost as high as Acer.
I tested the patch of the BIOS last month
worked perfectly on my TT
I used Levicki’s tool on my SR39VN and it worked perfectly.
I saw threads about this along time ago.. I don’t trust Sony to do the right thing.. Purposefully blocking VT is a joke.. Don’t buy Sony..
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Ops ! I have Sony vaio FZ31E Core 2 Duo T5450 1.66GHz 2GB RAm ! Windows 7 working perfect in my vaio =)
Wow – interesting! – I have the same model. What NVidia Graphics driver did you use? And do you observe any issues with the HDMI output (or switching internal/external monitor etc.) under Windows 7?
So far, all the warnings about the Graphics driver have stopped me from considering Windows 7.
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Sony Vaio’s and many other intel notebooks don’t have virtualization enabled on their intel chips so you cant run XP mode on windows 7. (I believe all AMD’s do. I overcame the problem of virtualization on my Sony Vaio by installing the free Sun Virtual box software. It runs faster and better than VM ware or Microsoft virtual PC (and did I mention its free!!) and does not require hardware virtualization. I then installed Win XP and it runs seamlessly on my win7 home edition OS as a window on the desktop. My windows apps then run on XP with only a slight delay that is acceptable to me. Now I have the best of both worlds: Win 7 and XP on a Sony Vaio. http://www.virtualbox.org/. I could now run as many additional operating systems I want using Virtual box. Go Sun!!!!
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I like the pink Vaio. I think selling a pink Vaio is the best move that Sony has ever made since it started producing electronics. Pink is a color universal to all women, transcending culture, race and religion. No wonder it’s such a best seller among ladies. – Tanya Bayo