XP Mode Works! --Re: We should [NOT] move en masse to Nota Bene (sorry Anne!)

[Jon P xywrite4@xxxxxxxx]

Thank you Bill Troop. I was confusing XP Compatibility, a nonstarter,  with XP Mode.

Bill is absolutely correct. On my Win 7 Pro 64-bit Lenovo, installing XP Mode (450 MB--looks like
it's essentially an XP installation) and Microsoft Virtual PC gives me a simulated XP desktop that
can access the rest of the computer (apparently via remote networking, but delay is extremely
minimal).

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx

I copied my XY folder from my old XP computer into the C: drive of the XP desktop, and...it just
works. Multiple windows, thesaurus, macros, etc. Complete with CLIP in both directions! (Though for
some reason I can only paste from Windows into XY near the top of the file. It crashes with
something pasted beyond, I think, the first 256 characters, a problem I'd been having under XP. No
big deal.)

I fiddled the type size Properties of the .pif shortcut to give me a fairly large windowed XY, much
more flexible than DOSBox. I could probably also get the display bells and whistles of TameDOS to
work, but am leaving it alone for the moment.

One easily removed annoyance--F1 pops up Virtual PC Help when you just want to DF a block. The
simple fix: In the Virtual PC window, go to Tools/Settings/Keyboard and change the default for
"Send Windows Combinations Such as Alt-Tab" from "To this computer" to "To
the virtual machine."

Thanks for the great Christmas present, Bill! Merry XYmas to all.

Jon Pareles

>
> Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 17:03:32 +0000
> From: Bill Troop 
> Subject: Re: We should [NOT] > move en masse to Nota Bene
> (sorry Anne!)
>
>
>
> Just install XP mode and run XP.  OK. You're now in XP.
> In
> Explorer/Tools, go to Map Network Drive. Select a drive
> letter (let's
> say G:) and for path put in //tsclient/c - - I think - -
> someone will
> correct me if I am wrong.
>
> OK. You now have access to your c: drive by going to g: in
> XP. Copy
> your XyWrite folders to XP/c. Now just run XyWrite as you
> normally
> would under XP.
>
> There's really nothing complicated about it. All of this
> assumes Win 7/64-bit.
>
>
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