Re: Win7 and XP

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

No, Harry.  As I mentioned,
this new laptop is not for me.


Guilty, once again, of skimming. My apologies.


  I have a couple of much
older laptops that I use infrequently, mainly just for wireless internet
/ email.  Desktop systems may be very much on the wane, market wise,
but I still greatly prefer them -- especially since the Shuttle XPC line
of sff  "cube" PCs that I favor have a rather compact size
anyway.


This laptop I'm setting up happens to be a Lenovo T-530, which is
intended to become a desktop replacement.  But laptops are realy not
my forte.  I seem to recall that their video hardware may impose
limitations on the size of certain program windows. 


I have a Lenovo T-2306, which is probably smaller, and when I ran XPMode
on Win 7, 64 bit, there was no screen limitation. Did you try increasing
the size of the font?  That is done by creating a desktop shortcut,
right-clicking on it, going to Properties, selecting Fonts tab and
picking a higher number.


 And Xy-3 and Xy-4 were not
Windows programs.  That first version of Elements that I installed
into XPMode yesterday, which seems to run normally as best I can tell,
comes up in about 80 % of this laptop's 17 " (or whatever it is)
screen, and could probably run full-screen.  Any Xywrite won't be
usable -- as a practical matter -- at the tiny, shrunk-down window size
that it is right now, in this XPMode.


Almost certainly that can be fixed.







   
Jordan



From: Harry Binswanger

To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2013 7:29 AM
Subject: Re: Win7 and XP
"he older versions of programs she has "


You mean we learn, after all these years, that "Jordan" is
a female?!


--Harry



Hi Kari,


I'm rushing out the door right now, and will have to research this
later through past postings to the List, but I'm just attempting this for
the first time, on a laptop I'm setting up for someone else.  (W7
64-bit, I5, 8Gb. of Ram.)  I installed XPMode, and thus far Xy-3
into it, as that is what the ultimate user of this laptop uses. 
(But I'm not sure how much different the results would be if it was Xy-4,
which I also intend to install.)  Xy-3 seems to be willing to
launch, but only in a window size that is a bit less than a 3 x 5
card.  There was an error to the effect that it could not virtualize
larger.   Is there some workaround to get a bigger, more useful
window size ?  (Please don't say "Tame" . . . .) 



These is my faltering first steps with XPMode.  I did have a bit
more luck getting PS Elements 1.0 to install into this, which was an
absolute No Go into straight-up Win-7.  (This particular user clings
to the older versions of programs she has and knows, and is not very
willing to adapt to changes in these programs UI in later versions, of
which there are plenty, so it is more a question of making this work as
is, to whatever extent possible.)


Or maybe I'd be better off doing all this with VMWare, or VirtualBox
?
If so, better to find that out now.




   Jordan




From: Kari Eveli

To: XyList 
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 10:40 PM
Subject: Win7 and XP
>I would love to have good old XP running on my much faster Win7
computer but your procedure seems...so to speak..complicated.
There are other options. If you have any virtualization software and
an available XP license to activate, you can have a copy of XP running in
VirtualBox, Parallels or VMware. If you have a copy of W2K lying around,
you could use it (no activation).


While dual booting Win7 and XP is quite feasible, Win7 and XP mode is
the preferred solution. Adding an SSD as a boot drive speeds up the
system, but can be a hassle. I am in the process of doing just that, and,
boy, it is complicated.
Best regards,
Kari Eveli