Msg: Re: Win7 and XP

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

Jordan

From: Harry Binswanger
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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