On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 09:30:22 -0400, wrote:

On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 18:37:21 -0500, Snag wrote:

so I'm trying to migrate all the thingds I do in XP to the Win7
install in this comp (dual boot) and I'm using Thunderbird version
68.9.0 and it ain't workin' Continuous not responding , can't do much
since it keeps locking up . Anybody else here used this combo and had
problems ? Any solutions ? I'm moving it all over to 7 because so much
just won't function in XP any more . There are a few thing I prefer XP
for , so I plan on keeping is as a backup OS , just trying to get as
much moved over as I can and email/newsgroups are a primary task for my
desktop . It's a pain in the ass to keep rebooting when I want to change
over .



... might it be a 32 bit / 64 bit conflict ?
although you would probably get an error message
to that ..
John T.
The only thing I can think of as an excuse to keep XP is if you have
qbasic programs to run - and even then just running a dosbox emulator
looks after most of that. (Didn't work for one customer who used some
ancient handheld as a data collection unit for a landsurveying
application written in MS Basic, ported to QBasic - and the handhelds
couldn't talk to DOS throughthe emulator, so we kept a windows 98
machine for them to dump the data to from the handhelds when they came
in from the field. AN XP box couild likely have been used there as
well, but the old 98SE box (an ancient IBM ThinkStation?) still
functioned. The Win98 machine was able to store the data on the shared
file hosted on the Win7 machine used as a peer to peer "server" that
stored all the data and drawings even when the draftsmen switched up
to W10.
We got rid of the Novel patchwork system when we converted to 98SE
from Win3.3 back around 2003 or there-abouts.