Rewind to windows 8
 

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[Closed] Rewind to windows 8

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My son "updated" to 8.1 two nights ago and can no longer play Minecraft,all drivers updated and no joy. Any simple way to sort it?


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 9:57 pm
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Wouldn't bother rewinding to 8 from 8.1 - too many other benefits to 8.

Best thing to do is install VMPlayer (now free for personal use) and install a Win 7 or XP virtual machine and install Minecraft on that.

This is much much easier to do than it sounds. You can then just load the virtual machine to run Minecraft.

I have just set up a virtual XP machine and a virtual Linux one and can have those to running together with the main Win 8.1 bit and literally just click between them.

Very nice piece of software...


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 10:02 pm
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Good idea!Will give it a bash DBG,always build my own pc's but never seem to catch on with whats available software wise,many thanks.


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 10:25 pm
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Its great - I have two monitors with the XP VM on one and Win 8.1 on the other.

Simply swipe over the the XP machine and do what I need to do there (quite a lot of ham radio software doesn't run well on anything above XP) and then across to the other monitor to run all my normal stuff.

Seamless...


 
Posted : 09/11/2013 1:13 pm

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