You could just do a virtual XP machine on your W7 box. That’s so easy >> I << do it.
That's why I was installing XP. What I'm doing (since I got the problem fixed), is R-consoling over to a windows 8 box running XP in Virtualbox. I've been using VMware, but the cheese system I have 8 on won't run it.
Now my 7 box can have all 4 cores to itself.