Use Microsoft Virtual PC (it's free and can be download together with image of XP from Microsoft's website), it allows you run applications created for Windows XP under Seven.
Nope - Windows 7 is an operating system.
You'd see this on Internet Explorer 8, and I believe it means the website was incompatible with IE8.
a window
No. That's what "virtual" means.
You could use a program called "windows 7 loader" that is freeware and can be found on pirate sites mainly. There you enter your motherboard type and you're done!
no, it is not shown in the control pannel. it is shown in the task manager.
That window/program would be called: 'Network and Sharing Center'.
All open "boxes" like a program is considered a window in Windows. Ctrl+E for an example.
There are hundreds of thousands of pieces of software in existence. It would be impossible to list every single program that is compatible or incompatible with Windows 7. To see if a particular program is known to work or not, you can try searching Microsoft's compatibility database.
Windows 7 (and Windows Vista) does not use boot.ini.
use Linux
window 7