Therefore, unlike with Windows 8.1, you won’t be able to connect to the Internet without first making a couple of changes in VirtualBox.

However, being old, Windows XP also has an outdated hardware driver support. Sure it’s an outdated and a bit ugly looking operating system, but I just use it for the sake of running my applications.

I’ve been using it for a few weeks now, and with just a 700 MB RAM, XP runs great!. So recently I switched to a Windows XP virtual machine to see if I can counteract this somehow. But my laptop only has 4 GB of RAM and when using Windows 8.1 virtual machine ( I use VirtualBox and have allocated 1.4 GB of RAM for Windows 8.1) alongside my web browser with 8-12 tabs opened in Ubuntu 15.10, it really slows things down due to the heavy memory usage. I completely switched to ‘ Linux‘ about a year ago and personally, and starting very recently, I wanted to run Windows XP because I have to use a couple of applications that’re only designed to run in Windows, and for a couple of months I’ve been using my licensed Windows 8.1 in a virtual machine on Ubuntu 15.10 just for the sake of running those applications. But if you’re still required to run it, then the best way to do so is to execute it on a virtual machine. Microsoft Windows XP is an old operating system that has reached the end of its support from Microsoft.

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