RUN Windows XP For Free In Windows 8

Microsoft gave Windows 7 users a way to run older applications via Windows XP Mode. With Windows 8, however, that mode is no longer officially supported, and if you want to run Windows XP in a virtual machine, you need the license for it. Lifehacker reader Miloš, however, has found a workaround. P

He discovered that within the free WindowsXPMode_en-us.exe file, there's a VirtualXPVHD file containing the Windows XP virtual machine, which you can open in VirtualBox. Here are the steps to get this working:P

Download WindowsXPMode_en-us.exe from Microsoft. You'll need to run the validation tool to prove your copy of Windows is valid. Then use 7-Zip or another archive tool to open the EXE file as an archive.
Within that archive, find the "sources/xpm" file within it, and extract that folder to your hard drive.
Finally, in the extracted xpm file, you'll find a file called VirtualXPVHD. Rename it with a VHD extension.
After you rename the file, open VirtualBox. Create a new virtual machine, give it a name, allocate some RAM, and when it asks to create a virtual hard drive, select the option "use an existing virtual hard drive file". Point it to the VHD file you made, and you're good to go!

In VirtualBox, open the VirtualXPVHD virtual machine, and voila! You've got Windows XP Mode (running Windows XP Professional) in Windows 8, no need for the XP license.

For How to bypass Windows Activation.. please read my previous post thru following link

http://andycabinet.blogspot.com/2014/02/how-to-turn-off-windows-vistaxp.html

Extra Notes:

a) ** This trick also works on windows 7,64 bit in Virtualbox.
However. During configuration the mouse will not work properly (at least in my case)
You must navigate through the XP setup using the keyboard (right click button, tab, spacebar, etc) to finish the configuration
After that, XP may hang a few times into a black screen. You must go to machine> Reset.
After that, once you are back to the desktop of XP, press WIN+R, then type appwiz.cpl
Then navigate using your keyboard and uninstall the "Virtual PC Integrated components" . You will be prompted to restart.
Restart it now. It would Have a black screen again. Reset the Virtualbox (machine >reset).
XP mode should now have working mouse input. Enjoy!

b) For Setting up Network Connection.
For Try to change network adaptor type to "Intel Pro/1000 T Server" as shown in the below.
** Give the guest (VirtualXP) two network adapters, Adaptor 1 set to NAT and the other (Adaptor 2) set to Host-only. The NAT one will allow the guest to see the Internet, and the Host-only one will allow the host to see the guest

*** INFO FROM INTERNET ***

How to share folders in winxp with a password

Instructions
1. Click "Start," then "Control Panel" and select "User Accounts" from the list of options. The "User Accounts" window will open.

2. Click the "Guest Account" icon, then click "Turn on the Guest Account." Close the window.

3. Click "Start," followed by "Run" then type "cmd" in the open field and click "OK." The "Command" window will open.

4. Type "Net user guest password" at the command prompt, then press the "Enter" key. The option to create a password is now enabled on the guest account. Close the "Command" window.

5. Click "Start," then "Control Panel" followed by "User Accounts." Click on the "Guest Account" again. Type in a password in the "Change the password" box to protect the shared folders. Close the window, then restart your computer. To view shared folders all users must enter the password.

Free disk space in Linux or SCO UNIX operating system

In Linux and Unix operating system, it’s possible to use “last” command to display and show the last logged in (and out) users history, and “lastb” command to show and display all the bad login attempts. The users’ login history is been logged and saved in wtmp file while faild login attempts is been stored in btmp file, both files For Linux usually located in /var/log directory. (For SCO Unix files normally is located in /var/adm)

To check your disk space, pls use the following command:
df -v

The logging of information into wtmp and btmp is continuous, and can potentially make the wtmp and btmp files grow very to a very big size. The situation is especially true to btmp, which logs failed or bad login attemps to the system, if the administrator does not disable FTP or SSH password authentication, and the server is been attacked via brute-force breaking in attempts, where any wrong user name or incorrect password been logged to btmp.

In addition, administrator may also want to clear and erase the history of login history once in a while. Or, system that running low or almost running out of disk space on /var may want to purge and delete the wtmp and btmp to reclaim and save some disk space.

In any case, the proper way to clear and reset wtmp and btmp files is by piping a blank input to the file, overwriting and replace all existing content. The command that can be used has the syntax like below:

cat /dev/null > /var/log/wtmp

or, on some system, simply like below:

> /var/log/wtmp

Note: Change the path and file name (i.e. btmp) accordingly.
Above commands will remove, clear and empty the content of the btmp or wtmp files, allowing new information to be started logging afresh again. The file is not been deleted or erased, and is leaved intact, as the btmp and wtmp files will not be recreated when not found. The system only logs information into these files if they are present.

Tip: For people who has already deleted the wtmp and btmp files, just re-create the file by touch command, and assign a proper permissions to the file (-rw-rw-r– root utmp or -rw—— root utmp btmp), or else “Excess permission or bad ownership on file /var/log/btmp or /var/log/wtmp” may occur.

Note that there may be files named as wtmp.1, wtmp.2 wtmp.3, wtmp.4, btmp.1, btmp.2, btmp.3, btmp.4, which are the backup archives, and can be safely removed or deleted.

*** Cron , boot.log, messages files in the /var/log directory also can be deleted.