Well, what I'm doing for the time being is to connect my old-standing laptop to my desktop using this Windows remote desktop feature and with that, I can work.
Many thanks to all. See you around. m 2016-01-22 2:34 GMT+01:00 MANUEL ANGEL DOMINGUEZ TORIBIO <[email protected]>: > Thank you very very much for the bad news! (Just kidding) > > Your info is very useful. Seriously. Definetly it is time to renew my > laptop. See you around. Best. Manuel. > > > El jueves, 21 de enero de 2016, Uwe Stöhr <[email protected]> escribió: > > Am 21.01.2016 um 03:42 schrieb MANUEL ANGEL DOMINGUEZ TORIBIO: > > > >> Do you know if I can get an older installer that work on my poor > windowXP > >> operating system. Thanks a lot for your help. m. > > > > As I wrote, this is not possible. For example MiKTeX (the a LaTeX > program) does no longer work with WinXP (this is why you get the Win API > error). other programs that are used by LyX show the same behavior. > > You can also not install LyX using an older LyX installer because it > would try to install LaTeX packages needed by LyX. But as the LaTeX > programs don't work on WinXP this would fail and LyX would be unusable. > > > > Sorry, WinXP is dead! > > > >> PS: Problem is not the price of a Windows 7 update. This I can do. The > >> problem is that my laptop is 1.5 RAM and I think windows 7 will not run > >> properly on it. > > > > Theoretically you only need 1 GB RAM but my experience is that one needs > 2 GB. It should be possible to replace the RAM bar in your laptop with ones > with more size. > > You say that you have 1.5 GB RAM. This is strange because that means > that you have 2 RAM bars, one with 1 GB one with 0.5 GB. This would result > in low performance if both bars don't have the same size. > > > > In case you cannot change the RAM bars I recommend to buy a new laptop. > They are cheap at the moment (about 500 € for an excellent one with 13 inch > screen) and you then get Win 7 for free on top. > > > > Of you want to stay with your old laptop, you must switch to Linux. As a > beginner I would use this Linux distribution: > > http://www.linuxmint.com/ > > in the KDE edition. > > > > regards Uwe > > >
