Re: Windows 7, again

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

Using Win 7-64, I have been running Xywrite under XP in XP Mode and have
never had any problems with it. The screen size and screen font are as
customizable as they are under XP. I did not have the unfortunate
experiences that Jordan did. However, I would much rather use Virtual Box
because (a) your Win 7 environment would be easy to bring into Win 8.1 if
or when I needed to and (b) because I could easily run MacOS under
VirtualBox at the same time. You can't run both XP Mode and Virtual Box
at the same time. All of that said, I have yet to get XP or W2K or any
other Windows working in VB on Win 7 yet. Maybe I'm trying to do
something too difficult, like getting Win 3.1 to work - - on Kari's
advice that it is probably the best way to get XyWrite running.


At 02/11/2013 16:59, you wrote:

Welcome aboard, John.


You will want to check out a thread entitled "Win7 and XP" that
began around Sept. 10, and still continued with some posts just a few
days ago.  (I'm not acquainted with the current status of the
XySearch tool for this list -- whether it is operational at the moment,
and how up to date a coverage its message lookup may have.)  This is
far from the only thread on this subject, just the most recent
one.


Since I've just been down this same road a bit, I can tell you that I
tried the XPMode emulation solution for W7 x64.  It is the most
direct and natively integrated of the various such solutions that have
been suggested.  They all run a Virtual XP inside your Win-7, with
certain apps being installed into the Virtual Machine and run inside this
windowed environment inside Win-7.  This worked fine for certain
older Windows programs that would not even install into W7, such as a
very early version of PhotoShop Elements.  For Xy though it was
rather a clunker.  I wound up with a

a screen that was about the size of a 3 x 5 card, which could not be
enlarged.  Not very useful.  Should I wish to pursue this
further, it will send me in the direction of  one of the other VM
solutions, such as VirtualBox.  They require more work to set up,
and they all require a license / install CD for an earlier Win version:
either XP or W2K. 




   Jordan








From: John K Riordan 


To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx


Sent: Saturday, November 2, 2013 7:34 AM


Subject: Windows 7, again




Hi, I'm new to this group, but a veteran XyWriter. I suppose this
question has been asked a thousand times: how do I get editor.exe running
under Windows 7 64bit? I've tried the various compatibility settings
without success. A quick browse of your archives didn't immediately turn
up an answer. One more time, please...


 


John K. Riordan