As I reported yesterday, today I'd be working on getting Hyper-V
running and install a VM WinXP. Because I'd never done that before, I
was nervous and really wasn't sure what to expect.

FWIW, I found two articles that I found very useful. They provided
step by step instructions with screenshots to highlight the
instructions.
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/win...-hyper-v/6690/

and
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/win...-hyper-v/6732/

With one or two exceptions, things went smoothly. As far as I can
tell, Hyper-V and the VM WinXP are working as expected. I still have a
long way to go, but the biggest hurdle seems to be over.

John