Ikabob wrote: > Well, I have now been informed that I cannot upgrade from Windows XPpro > to Win7 and still keep all of my existing programs. I'm not sure I > understood the process but it seemed very complicated. The problem seems > to be that I did not go to Win VISTA. > Can anyone give me a different explanation for why you can't go from > XPpro to 7? > Thank you.
Ikabob, it is very possible that you could upgrade your machine to Windows 7, and install your Windows XP on a VMWare player virtual machine. VMWare Player is free and works very well. You could then run the XP programs which will not run on Windows 7 in that virtual machine. you will need to do it quickly as you will need to do any updates for XP before April 8th, 2014. Once you have all updates installed onto the XP virtual machine, run it as an independent machine - i.e. without an internet connection. Windows 7 runs VMWare Player very well. The laptop I'm typing this on had Windows 7 with XP as a virtual machine. I updated it to Windows 8.1, and now have XP and Vista as virtual machines. Vista is fine, but it is a lot hungrier than XP: it needs about 30Gb to sit comfortably, while XP needed about 10Gb. Squeezebox Classic:2; Duet: 1; Boom:1; Touch:1; Wandboard Quad; Squeezelite. Server: Wandboard Quad with CSOS; Raspberry Pi/Wolfson Card with Squeezeplug 7.06; (backup:Win 8 Pro 64 bit, Sheevaplug with Squeezeplug); iPeng, iPeng for Ipad, Orange Squeeze, Squeezepad, LMS Version: 7.8.0 latest nightly ------------------------------------------------------------------------ kesey's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10786 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101240 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
