And it appears to work!

There is one minor error, which is that you /must/ use the pre-installer or
exactly follow the instructions to install the ICD drivers in the XP mode
(just letting windows find and install the correct driver will NOT work).=20

"{when you} attach your ICD2, windows 7 will pick up on it first and fail t=
o
install the drivers. Wait for this process to complete then click on the
"USB" menu at the top of the XP virtual machine. Choose the unknown device,
and "attach" it. You may be better off removing any superfluous USB devices
before doing this to make identifying the ICD2 easier. Once you have
attached the device, you will be prompted to install the driver from within
the XP VM. Follow the normal procedure to install the ICD2 drivers"=20

At this point, follow the EXACT MPLAB documentation to install the first
driver. I had to run the "Update Installation and & Clean" procedure from
\Microchip\MPLAB IDE\Utilities\MPUsbClean\MPUsbDocs\Update_Clean.htm and
both update, then pre-install the driver before disconnecting and
re-connecting the ICD2.

"Once the driver has been installed, we aren't quite there. The trick here
is that the ICD2 actually has 2 seperate USB devices associated with it. We
will now need to once again go to the USB menu, locate the "unknown" device
and attach it. Again we will need to let windows locate the correct driver
for the device and install it.

At this point, the ICD2 will function from within the XP virtual machine,
along with the install of MPLab. One nice thing is, once you have completed
this process, you can go Start -> All Programs -> Windows Virtual PC ->
Windows XP mode Applications, and launch MPLab directly from there. The VM
still needs to start up and run in the background, but the MPLab window
looks like a native application, rather then running within the VM window
(tho once you actually start using it, it'll become fairly obvious that a
lot more is running in the background)."

"One more thing to note. You will need to attach the USB device twice every
time you launch MPLab (from the "USB" menu if you launch the VM first, by
right clicking on the system tray icon if you launch MPLab directly)."

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James Newton
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-----Original Message-----
From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of
James Newton
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 16:38
To: 'Microcontroller discussion list - Public.'
Subject: [PIC] Older ICD2's under Windows 7 in XP mode


http://kill-nine.org/?q=3Dnode/2

Nice article about getting an old ICD2 to work in Windows 7 by using the XP
mode add-on. I'll be trying this soon as I've just got to many things going
on with the old XP machine and need to start porting things over to the new
Win7 laptop.

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