Sorry - I accept that it's probably a failing on my part, but I can't get on with Ubuntu. My current machine dual boots between Ubuntu and Win XP - and I spent quite a lot of time trying to get to grips with Ubuntu - and failed - so I never use it now. Even simple things like getting it to accept a fixed IP address seemed to need a script of some sort to be written, and I just couldn't be arsed!
I can see how that might be a problem
In message , Roger Mills writes
Ask me when I phone you when your fan's ready
I have a few pointers
At a guess, AMD virtualization (AMD-V) will also work.
It will.
Re: "But why? My attitude is "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"!"
Because it is broken, only the cracks are not on the surface.
There is NO support by Intuit for anything over about 3 years old. There are security issues. And once you get more than about 6 years old, you may not be ABLE to migrate from the old version to a current version. What I did was do multiple migrations at about 3-year intervals. The problem is, you have waited so long that you may not be able to find the necessary intermediate versions. But, more to the point, if you continue to wait, doing so will get increasingly more difficult. You will get to a point where you won't be able to migrate and will lose everything.
To make a bootable CD from a bootable floppy, you need a program such as "Roxio" or "Nero". They have the ability to make a bootable CD using a floppy as the boot image; it's a standard feature of "full feature" burning products. When you boot from the CD, the floppy image will come up as A: and the rest of the CD will come up as some other drive letter, PROVIDING that the OS booted from the image (e.g. the floppy) had generic CD drivers (e.g. a device driver and MSCDEX) [if these are not present, the rest of the CD won't be accessible, which may not be relevant anyway, e.g. if you are flashing a bios or running a memory or disk diagnostic that originally was on a bootable floppy].
Roger Mills wrote:
I migrated last year from Quicken 98 (non Millennium version) to MyMoney on FreebSD - no problem!
Some older stuff may have problems with the enforced security model of win7. This is basically a result of apps not following the rules about which parts of the files system and registry they are allowed to access. (MS apps being just as bad as others!).
Sometimes you can get past this with selective use of admin rights during first run etc. (i.e. doing a run as administrator)
Better versions of win7 also include an XP mode - this is basically a complete XP system inside a virtual machine that can be used for stuff that goofs in a bad way.
If you have WDM drivers that work under XP these will also work under 7. Older style drivers will need replacement though.
No, not in any conceivable way. Stay away, avoid, don't go there!
You would have many of the same issues, in addition to the OS being totally crap as well.
It can vary from easy (wipe the partition, boot from cd and install) to impossible. Some later laptops may have drivers that won't run on XP and are not available. This is relatively rare - but does happen (especially on sony laptops!)
Bootable CDs and memory sticks have completely replaced floppies now. There are plenty of partition imaging / copy programs about other than ghost as well. Segate Maxblast is basically a slightly limited version of Acronis Trueimage and can be very handy[1]
[1] In theory it only runs if you have a Sesgate or Maxtor drive in the system somewhere, and throws up an error if you don't. To circumvent this, just type ALT+t, ALT+o at the dialog and click ok.If the choice was XP or Vista, then hanging out with XP would probably be viable for a bit. Now 7 is here there is not really much reason to stay with xp since there will come a time that support for it dies, and then you are in a didgy position the first time a serious security break comes along that does not get patched.
Note if you by Win7 Pro then that automatically includes downgrade rights to XP if you really are worried about not limiting your options.
Wandering off topic a bit here, but, are you aware of any free solutions that can work in the manner of VNC-SC (i.e. a small prog a user can DL and run that then "phones home" back to me and gives remote control - nicely sidestepping any NAT and firewall issues on the remote end of the setup). While VNC-SC works well controlling XP machines, its painfully slow on Vista and Win7.
I had never see VNC-SC before. But as we use LogMeIn extensively that has become our preferred solution. Never have firewall issues (once the remoter machine has normal web access) at either end.
If the remote computer does not have it installed, we simply talk the user through installing it. Have managed to get some pretty incompetent people through that process. (Depending on how you set up accounts/usernames, you might need temporarily to reveal your password to allow them to add their computer to your account. When this issue arises, we change our password for a minute or two.)
And we only use LogMeIn free ourselves - though quite a number of the sites we access have decided to get a paid-for version.
Quicken stopped UK support in 2005.
Need to find round tuits.
The normal VNC seems ok over a LAN when controlling Vista etc, but the single click version over a pair of ADSL connections seems to have major difficulties.
Turning off aero helps - but its still almost postal - e.g. click for a menu and wait anything from 10 to 20 seconds to see the result etc.
I will have to give it a go... ta.
There are 3 options for these situations:
John Rumm wrote:
Don't go Vista. It doesn't do anything that Win7 doesn't do better. XP was OK, but I think I prefer 7.
Andy
Will do. Ta!
Sorry, you've lost me!
I've used Quicken 98 for 12 years or so to do the accounts for my own family and for two voluntary organisations with which I am associated without requiring any support from Intuit. So why should I need any *now*?
*What* security issues? My use of it never goes anywhere near the internet!
It can go a bit deeper than just dealing with UAC IME...
for example Word 2003 will install and run ok on Win7, but will pop up the license acceptance agreement for the user to OK every time it runs. This seems to be a failure to record the users acceptance, due to write permissions. However it does not generate a UAC popup when it attempts to save the users answer.
With that one, you can fix it by doing a run as admin on it, accepting the agreement popup and then closing it. Next time you run with normal rights, it works normally.
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