Re: xywrite Digest V5 #109

[Jon P xywrite4@xxxxxxxx]

XP Mode works the same way--just tried it, complete with the freeze until you close Explorer. I ran a small program that was on the desktop, h2testw.exe, and it looks like it is being run through the XP desktop (not the Win7 one).  Once the program and Explorer are closed, you can Exit back to XY. 

But...why would you want to do that? Using the shortcut, you get XY sitting on the desktop like one
more Win7 window, and you can run Win7 programs with Win7. 


Jon Pareles 

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I suppose that when XyWrite is running in XP Mode, you can exit to DOS
by executing dos on the command line.  But I assume that from the
resulting DOS prompt you can't run programs installed in the real
Win7---can you?

Martin

Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 03:31:56 +0000
From: Bill Troop 
Subject: Running programs from DOS in VM

With VPC on Win 7-64, going to DOS and executing Explorer results in
the following: an XP explorer window pops up and, amazingly, 'My
Documents' refers to the Win 7 environment. However, XyWrite is now
locked into the dos command line. It is frozen. Only once you have
closed the process you started (in this case Explorer) will you be
able to 'exit' back to XyWrite or invoke another DOS command. This
can be nerve-racking if you don't know how to unfreeze.