Re: Renewing XP support (was Re: W2K issues; hitherto unknown SP 5 (was Re: W2K - Harry has it!))

[J R FOX jr_fox@xxxxxxxx]

Hi Carl,

Let us know how that goes.

This is just my opinion, but Adobe Reader became obtrusive bloatware quite
 some time ago.  I tried Foxit for awhile, but found some reasons for bailing on them.  Two free and good alternatives are Sumatra PDF, and PDFXChange -- both also available in fully portable versions.  I think the latter may offer some very light duty PDF editing, but if you need more of that, this probably calls for a different program, few of which are free.  CAD-KAS may fill the bill on that, and it sometimes offers free promotions on its base version.


     Jordan

 
 
 
 
  From: Carl Distefano 
 To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
 Sent: Sunday,
 October 5, 2014 3:25 PM
 Subject: Renewing XP support (was Re: W2K issues; hitherto unknown SP 5 (was Re: W2K - Harry has it!))
  
 


Reply to note from Bill Troop mailto:billtroop@xxxxxxxx Sun, 05 Oct 2014
23:00:55 +0100




> This is great!


Sure is. I guess next on the to-do list will be XP on VBox, with
automatic updates!

I'm almost home with W2K. In addition to SP4, I've installed Rollup 1
and SP5.1 (from the nifty page you posted yesterday). I've got Firefox
10 running (in addition to IE6), and
 Adobe Reader 7, which is the
latest version I could find that would run on W2K. Dropbox is
installed locally and assigned to drive X:. Xy4 runs nicely, except no
Python functionality (yet).

The last thing I tried was to install the latest version of Python 3.
The installation aborts with a message that a necessary program file
is missing from MSInstaller. I assume that SP5.1 includes the latest
available MSInstaller for W2K, but I nevertheless tried installing
Win Installer 3.1 Redistributable v2
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=25.
Same error message, unfortunately.

Any suggestions?

--
Carl Distefano
mailto:cld@xxxxxxxx