It's a dual-core 64-bit machine, just an old one, and XP Pro can't address more than about three-and-a-bit gigs of RAM. That meant terra incognita: the mysteries of the rarely seen XP for x86-64. Windows XP Professional x64 Edition came along in 2005, rather later than the standard x86-32 and Itanium editions of XP. Even though more advanced versions of the Microsoft Operating System are available such as Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 but still 28.8% of the users prefer Windows XP. Although Microsoft is going to stop its support for Windows XP in April 4, 2014 and user will not get any security updates. However still some of the portion may use it. Add a comment. 5. It is true that Windows 10 does not include XP Mode, but there are ways to get a XP VM. First of all, you can always download the XP Mode install file, extract the folder VirtualXPVHD, and put it into a .vhd file, and load the resulting file in HyperV or other hypervisor as suggested by several websites (that also have more 20 Facts About Windows XP. Windows XP was first available in 2001. There are over five hundred million copies of Windows XP still in use to this day. Everyone remembers the beloved Windows XP that operated truly as an OS should. It was intuitive, streamlined, and not filled with the horrible kinks and problems seen in Vista or Windows 8. For years now the go-to way to activate a fresh Windows XP install relies on a tool called WindowsXPKg, available on Github.It's a keygen that can generate endless product keys for XP. With Windows XP, you could see in the system monitor that about 8 processes were running and they used less than 1% of CPU and disk bandwidth. For windows 10, there are more than 200 processes and they commonly use 30-50% of your CPU and disk IO. Whenever I start drilling down on these processes I can see they are features I never want; Cortana 1 Answer. Download a Windows XP Mode executable file from Microsoft's Windows XP Mode site. Open the folder containing the executable file (e.g. WindowsXPMode_en-us.exe). Don't install it. Unzip that exe file with 7ZIP by dragging and dropping it into the 7ZIP window. Open Sources folder in 7ZIP window, extract xpm file. It is not necessary to manually install IE9 - but if you have already done so, then it is advisable (but not essential) to install a relatively recent update for it to simplify the search for the approximately 200 remaining Windows updates, which might still take a few hours even with all the recommended patches installed. RRsNr.