Re: xywrite Digest V5 #108

[Jon P xywrite4@xxxxxxxx]

Subject: Re: Windows 7, again - tips and tricks


Sorry to jump in here so late, but since there was a link a few days ago to my attempted (and later
discarded) DOSBox installation, let me put in another vote for XP Mode, which is what I came around
to. I do also use TAME for more fonts and flexibility; I can send you my (actually Michael Norman's)
tweaked and working Tame settings if you need them. However, if you were using XY in Windows XP,
whatever worked before is fine. 

XP Mode can be installed in Windows 7. I opened that virtual desktop and copied my old working XY
folder (from my old XP computer onto a flash drive), with XYWWWEB and TAME and all the rest, into
what virtual XP thinks is its C: drive. If you had it working in XP, it should function just as it
did. 

The only tweaks needed are to let XP Mode communicate with Win7. On the XP Mode desktop, put the
shortcut to Editor.exe in XP Mode's C:/Documents and Settings/All Users/Start Menu. That also puts a
shortcut in your Win7 start menu. You can click on it and the XY window opens--XP Mode's desktop
stays invisible. I can get a full window XY just by clicking on the full-window button on the upper
right to expand it like any other Win7 window. Carl's invaluable CLIP.exe works to cut-and-paste in
and out of both XP Mode and Win7.  

You probably also need to get files out of virtual XYwrite so you can email them, etc. In my .kbd
file under TABLE=CTRL I put this line:

46=BXs,a,/,n,v, ,\,\,t,s,c,l,i,e,n,t,\,c,\,x,y,Q2

With that in the .kbd file, hitting CTRL-C (obviously you can change the key to whichever you
prefer) puts a copy of the file in Win7's C:\XY folder, ready for anything you need to do with
email, MS Word formatting, etc. 

The VMWare method may be better if you have older Windows installation discs--I have no idea--but
this works fine for me. 

You might also want to tweak XP Mode to stop asking for security updates, etc. Microsoft was pretty
lazy when they ported it, so XP Mode really does think it's on a standalone computer. 

Jon Pareles