![]() ![]() Having the XP box networked with the rest of my system with a KVM makes switching back and forth when needed easily done.ĭevice drivers are a particularly tricky issue. I managed to 'trick' a couple of Win 98 designed programs to run in XP and even Win 7 64 bit, but ended up moving them to my old XP box when I upgraded Win 7 to 10 as I ran out of tricks. In the past 30 years or so, computer upgrades usually cost me more for upgrading the software than the hardware cost!Īfter a particularly expensive software upgrade to match the hardware upgrade when I moved from Win 98 to Win XP, I 'discovered' I could buy used software products on ebay that were one or two releases behind current and it would work just fine in the new environment (XP to Win 7, in particular). One of the hidden costs of upgrading ones' computer is that in many situations, the old software is no longer compatible with the new environment. ![]()
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