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Run Access2013-32bit under WinXP?

hello,
my customer has some PCs still running under Windows XP. The most users are using Windows7-32bit and all is fine. Actually I have many Access2013-32bit databases, and some of them should run under WinXP. WinXP works with A2007 but not A2013. Is there a tool (virtualization?) or any simple way to run A2013 under WinXP?
The aim is to do any frontend code changes only in the A2013 application. Until now I have to develop two frontends (A2007 and A2013). Thats erroneous!
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IF you have RDS cals you could setup the Access 2013 application on a RDS server and run it as a RemoteApp....for the users it would be almost transparent....
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thx for your comments. I successfully opened my A2013-Frontends in A2007. First I checked my library-accdb in A2007 and all is fine. So there is no pain from A2013 to A2007, maybe because the Access file format didn't change ("A2007 to A2013" is the default setting in the menu file - options). No virtualizing or similar tools necessary.
Anyway, Jim's comment is really the recommended way of working with different Access versions.
<<I successfully opened my A2013-Frontends in A2007. >>

 Be careful...if you use any A2013 features not available in A2007, the app will break.

Jim.