How to remove the OS check from VPC2007 setup

Bo Berglund

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Oct 22, 2006, 3:25:48 AM10/22/06

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Since this is a recurring topic I have collected the info earlier
posted by us...@home.com in this forum.

Step 1, extract the contents of setup.exe:

setup.exe /c /t .\
This will give you Virtual_PC_2007_Install.msi

Step 2, remove the OS check using ORCA:

Use open the Virtual_PC_2007_Install.msi file with ORCA.
In Custom Action drop the row:
CA_CheckIfWeCanInstall

Now the msi file will run on the "impossible" platform.

Bo Berglund
bo.berglund(at)nospam.telia.com

resea...@gmail.com

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Oct 22, 2006, 5:44:21 AM10/22/06

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> Use open the Virtual_PC_2007_Install.msi file with ORCA.
> In Custom Action drop the row:
> CA_CheckIfWeCanInstall
> Now the msi file will run on the "impossible" platform.

This removes the OS check but after installation I get the error message
"The Virtual PC 2007 Beta release has expired". Virtual PC does not load.
Worth a try but there must be more to this than just removing the
CheckIfWeCanInstall action.

Bo Berglund

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Oct 22, 2006, 8:14:49 AM10/22/06

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I didn't even know there was an expiration date on VPC2007....
Anyway, I just collected the info from other threads into this one on
how to grab the msi and edit it. Unfortuately I don't know where MS
could have hidden the expiration date. :-(

Bo Berglund
bo.berglund(at)nospam.telia.com

Mark Rae

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Oct 22, 2006, 9:22:01 AM10/22/06

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"Bo Berglund" <bober...@home.se> wrote in message
news:93omj2h0n6ffcr1nq...@4ax.com...

> I didn't even know there was an expiration date on VPC2007....

There usually is with Microsoft betas...

Bo Berglund

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Oct 22, 2006, 10:41:54 AM10/22/06

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Seems to be rather short in view of the fact it was released only a
week or so ago....

Bo Berglund
bo.berglund(at)nospam.telia.com

resea...@gmail.com

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Oct 22, 2006, 1:03:43 PM10/22/06

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> I didn't even know there was an expiration date on VPC2007....
> Anyway, I just collected the info from other threads into this one on
> how to grab the msi and edit it. Unfortuately I don't know where MS
> could have hidden the expiration date. :-(

My best guess is its a wrong error message as the system date is correct.
It probably needs a prerequiste that is no longer being checked for and
incorrectly causes this expiry message or its as simple as it does not work
on Win2KPro.

Kai-Uwe v. d. Ohe

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Oct 23, 2006, 6:45:56 AM10/23/06

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<resea...@gmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:eqLhp6b9...@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

No problem here. I installed it yesterday on my XP Home
box after doing the mod as described by Bo. Have you by
chance ever had installed a trial version of VPC 2004, so
that some "registry debris" might have fooled VPC 2007
into thinking it was expired, where it in fact would have been
the trial version of VPC 2004?

regards,

Kai-Uwe

nrg....@ntlworld.com

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Dec 10, 2006, 2:04:13 PM12/10/06

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How could this possibly work if the dloaded is an EXE not a MSI!?!?!

nrg....@ntlworld.com

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Dec 10, 2006, 2:04:14 PM12/10/06

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Theo

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Dec 10, 2006, 2:57:04 PM12/10/06

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Follow the instructions and you will be rewarded with a .MSI
file!!

Theo

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Dec 10, 2006, 2:58:14 PM12/10/06

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R.T.F.M. (Read The Friendly Manual - in this case the
instructions!)

Follow the instructions and you will be rewarded with a .MSI
file!!

Theo

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Dec 10, 2006, 4:12:24 PM12/10/06

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I just went through the whole process and it works.

I have installed VPC 2007 on XP Home and installing another
XP Home in that VPC.

No problems with an Expiration Date!

Theo

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Dec 11, 2006, 10:19:19 AM12/11/06

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I finally managed to get Vista to install in VPC 2007 on XP
Home, but it is not a pleasant experience. Right now it is
the final stages of "Completing installation" but has
already been running for almost 2 hours. If the idea is to
see what Vista is like, VPC on XP Home is definitely not the
way to do it.

The same installation directly to an IDE hard drive only
took about 30 minutes.