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Turning a Windows 98 box into a VM
Sep. 6th, 2008 05:57 pmNana Pam has a new computer. Well, a newer computer, from http://www.computerresale.co.uk/refurbished.htm (not one of the ones currently listed). It has XP Pro on it.
My task is to copy everything useful off her current, Windows 98, machine.
That probably means copying "My Documents" (happening as I write), and making sure she has a copy of Word ( Read more... )
But it might be quite nice to turn the whole machine into a VM, for playing old games that don't work even in compatibility mode, and in case anything else that was on it is ever useful.
( Read more... )
My task is to copy everything useful off her current, Windows 98, machine.
That probably means copying "My Documents" (happening as I write), and making sure she has a copy of Word ( Read more... )
But it might be quite nice to turn the whole machine into a VM, for playing old games that don't work even in compatibility mode, and in case anything else that was on it is ever useful.
( Read more... )