{"id":4281,"date":"2015-07-14T08:26:34","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T08:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/?page_id=4281"},"modified":"2019-06-19T16:32:28","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T23:32:28","slug":"dotnet4xp","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/p\/dotnet4xp\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing the .NET Framework 4 on Windows XP"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Installing the .NET Framework 4 on Windows XP<\/h2>\n<h2>Problem<\/h2>\n<p>You need to install the .NET Framework to run many apps on Windows, such as tax filing apps and games. The .NET Framework comes from Microsoft and is updated by <a href=\"http:\/\/update.microsoft.com\/\">Windows Update<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Solution<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/9\/5\/A\/95A9616B-7A37-4AF6-BC36-D6EA96C8DAAE\/dotNetFx40_Full_x86_x64.exe\">The .NET Framework 4<\/a> can be installed on Windows XP. Most apps that require the .NET Framework require this version. In some cases, you will may need a later update of the .NET Framework. You can install the <a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=229541\">.NET Framework 4.0.3<\/a> after installing the .NET Framework 4.<\/p>\n<table class=\"helpTiles\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=213834\">Install .NET 4<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=229541\">Install .NET 4.0.3<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=213835\">learn more about the .NET Framework 4<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/p\/dotnet45xp\">.NET Framework 4.5<\/a> is not supported on Windows XP.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"mailto:dotnethelp@microsoft.com?subject=Help installing .NET 4 on Windows XP\">contact Microsoft for help<\/a> if you cannot get the correct version of the .NET Framework installed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This information has been provided by the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/dotnet\">.NET team<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"disqus_thread\"><\/div>\n<p>\/* * * CONFIGURATION VARIABLES: EDIT BEFORE PASTING INTO YOUR WEBPAGE * * *\/\nvar disqus_shortname = &#8216;officialdotnet&#8217;; \/\/ required: replace example with your forum shortname<\/p>\n<p>\/* * * DON&#8217;T EDIT BELOW THIS LINE * * *\/\n(function() {\nvar dsq = document.createElement(&#8216;script&#8217;); dsq.type = &#8216;text\/javascript&#8217;; dsq.async = true;\ndsq.src = &#8216;\/\/&#8217; + disqus_shortname + &#8216;.disqus.com\/embed.js&#8217;;\n(document.getElementsByTagName(&#8216;head&#8217;)[0] || document.getElementsByTagName(&#8216;body&#8217;)[0]).appendChild(dsq);\n})();<\/p>\n<p>Please enable JavaScript to view the <a href=\"http:\/\/disqus.com\/?ref_noscript\">comments powered by Disqus.<\/a>\n<a class=\"dsq-brlink\" href=\"http:\/\/disqus.com\">comments powered by <span class=\"logo-disqus\">Disqus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Installing the .NET Framework 4 on Windows XP Problem You need to install the .NET Framework to run many apps on Windows, such as tax filing apps and games. The .NET Framework comes from Microsoft and is updated by Windows Update. Solution The .NET Framework 4 can be installed on Windows XP. Most apps that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"featured_media":58792,"parent":4241,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4281","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4281\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}