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Hi
Some very interesting procedures.
While interned in the hospital recently I was faced with getting a small wifi laptop with all the necessary facilities to run my "life" remotely.
I had a quick brouse on the offings and everthing has that horrible windows 8 look and I realised I would need to look at the basic platform to ensure it would run a fully configured version of XP. Most of my inhouse management is with programs developed with DOS 16 bit and much of this nolonger works on the 64 it O/S.
This means I need to remove the operating system (for later use) and load XP from where I can do the necesary upgdates to Win 7 (which is not all that bad) and install VMware for the virtuals.
The time frame was too short (6 hours) so i pressed into service an old emachine that i had discarded 18 months ago (XP installed). This worked great allowing me to run the computer in a familiar mode. The new hotmail/outlook is a heap of garbage but is better than none and at least I could write emails etc on a normal keyboard (I also had a Nexus that was like trying to write lefthanded with invisible ink).
The only problem was that the last update I had done on the notebook was 18 months ago and I missed some imp0ortant data
Barry
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