On Thu, 14 Jun 2018 18:22:11 -0700, "Newgene McMensa"
newgene.mcmensaREMOVEREMOVEgmail.com wrote:

I say technically because any time I need to escape doing any home repairs, I slip into the special brain center where all the latest 15-year old computers and software are buzzing away.

Anyways.... this old computer has Win2000 on it and I have to keep it for running one proprietary program.

I just picked up "new" OEM versions of XP and 7, that would like to load on the same computer, so that I can boot to any one of them without screwing up the other two.

Any pointers on where to look or super E-Z advice to follow?

Snuffy


I have a financial program I wrote back in the days of MS-DOS
(actually CP/M, but you aren't old enough for that). It worked through
Win-7, but not Win-10.

I downloaded VirtualBox (which is free), created a "container",
installed XP in that container. Works great. My software runs, as does
my favorite old game.

VirtualBox allows multiple containers which can be loaded with almost
any operating systems.

Only problem I've had is that only one of my USB drives is
recognizable by the XP system. It is the only one formatted as ExFAT,
so I suspect that is the reason.

-dan z-


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