Hi Mike & Carlo

Thanks for your help.

This CD  runs on XP so I was told it would be OK with Windows 7.

I shall have to investigate Boot Camp. Will this mean I need to partition my HD 
and reinstall everything?

Best wishes from Diana

On 04/10/2011, at 3:12 PM, Mike Murray wrote:

> Does  the CD run on a real PC with Windows 7? It was released in 2004 I 
> think. Some of my older Family History CDs won't run on Vista...I keep a 
> laptop running Windows98 just to access the stuff!
> 
On 04/10/2011, at 4:25 PM, cm wrote:

> Parallels runs what is called a virtual machine, so even though it is real 
> Windows, it does put an emulation layer between Windows and the hardware. If 
> you want real Windows on real hardware you can boot up in Windows using Boot 
> Camp.
> 
> 
>> I have long known that the Sussex Marriage Index would not run on Macs using 
>> simulation but in my innocence I thought that with an Intel Mac this was 
>> real 
>> Windows!
> 

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