Since upgrading my laptop I have started to look at XP Mode in more depth, my initial view on it was that it was just a preconfigured XP PC that you ran as a virtual on your Windows 7 PC/Laptop when you needed to access a program that does not run on Windows 7. 
I was so wrong! I did not realise that when you install applications on the XP Mode PC it creates a sub menu in the Windows Virtual PC menu and would enable you to run the application as if it was a Windows 7 App. As a lot of you know you cannot run the MS Exchange System Manager (ESM) on Windows 7 so I installed it on the Windows XP Mode Virtual and there it was in the menu.
I had to do some other work on the virtual, join it to the domain, unsave the previously saved credentials, but it worked I could now run ESM on Windows 7.
