-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Windows 98/Vista
- From: Beverly Hahn <bhahn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:14:40 -0500
Gman,
I've been lurking! Sorry to be slow in thanking you. My old computer
is now locking up repeatedly while I'm using it. Guess the time is
drawing closer to when I need to be thinking about really getting a new
one. Do you have any suggestions about make, model, specifications,
etc--and very economical. My retirement income doesn't stretch very far
these days.
Thanks for your information. I'm filing it away!
Beverly
> Hi Beverly,
> I was begining to think you had abandoned us. ;)
>
> It's possible, but not necessarily the way you're thinking. My
> suggestion would be to run Win98SE within a virtual machine program, exactly
> the way I run XP Pro and Vista test systems on my computer. Setting it up
> may seem a bit intimidating at first, but it's not hard to do. Since we're
> talking about a new computer that's powerful enough to handle Vista, there
> will be plenty of power for running a measly OS like Win98 within it. The
> best part is that you won't have to reboot whenever you want to do something
> within Win98SE. Just fire up the Virtual Machine (VM) program, double click
> on your Win98SE image and away you go. Anything that runs on your current
> Win98SE OS will also run on it within the VM.
>
> Another great part of this approach is that you can easily recover if
> something should go wrong during a Win98SE session. See, when you're
> finished and tell Win98SE to Start > Shut Down > Shut Down, it will close
> itself up just like it does on your present system. However, when it's
> finished shutting down, you'll be asked if you wish to commit the session to
> the VM, continue with the session the next time you start up that 98SE image
> or completely forget everything that has happened since the last time you
> committed changes to it. So, even if you manage to completely mangle 98SE
> during a session (doubtful, but never completely impossible), you can just
> tell it to forget that and you'll be right back to where you were when you
> started.
>
> There are some other things you'll need to understand before you feel
> completely at home with using VM's, but it doesn't take long to learn and
> you'll have the best of both worlds without any need to reboot to get to
> your 'other' operating system. If this sounds like a good approach to you,
> just let us know whenever you're ready and we'll walk you right through it.
> :)
>
> Peace,
> Gman
> http://www.bornagainamerican.org
>
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