Windows 10 / 32-bit

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Dan Ford
Thu 20/06/2019

I don't know if there's still anyone out there, but good day to anyone who is!

I find that I must upgrade to Windows 10 before the end of the year, and that it should be 64-bit. (TurboTax will no longer run on Windows 7, and no future upgrade of another important program will run on a 32-bit machine.)

Will Vdos and Wordstar run on 64-bit, as they have done very successfully on Windows 7 32-bit?

Thanks - Dan

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dmccunney

Yes. There is nothing about the change to 64 bit or Win10 that makes a difference. I run vDOSPlus supporting an assortment of old DOS applications under 64bit Win10 Pro here, and have for some time.

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Dan Ford
20/06/2019

Excellent, thank you! I will start looking at Dell computers, much as I hate to change things.

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Paul Gipe
20/06/2019

Dan,

I've been using Michael Petrie's Word addin for a decade now and it's served my purposes quite well in Win 7 and Win 10. I've written two or three books on it.

Paul

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dmccunney
20/06/2019


On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 11:06 AM Daniel Ford wrote:

Excellent, thank you! I will start looking at Dell computers, much as I hate to change things.

You're welcome. I *do* strongly recommend win10 *Pro* over Win10 Home.

And Dell isn't the only place to look. My current Win10 desktop machine is a refurbished ex-corporate desktop machine from HP. It came with a quad-core Inter i5-2400 CPU running at 3.1-3.4 ghz, 8GB RAM, and a 512GB SATA HD. I added a 240GB SSD originally bought for another machine which I cloned Win10 to and set as boot drive, and have added a USB3 PCI-e card (since ti didn't have USB3 on the motherboard), USB3 hub, and a Bluetooth dongle. I had also swapped in an ATI graphics card bought for a different system, but the onboard Intel HD2000 graphics were *better*, so it got removed and is in a parts drawer.

The original refurb HP cost $250. :-)

Win10 *does* rearrange the Windows UI again. It brings back the Start menu dropped in Win 8.1, but in the spirit of fixing what wasn't broken, rearranged it. I run Classic Shell, an open source Start menu replacement. By default, it looks and acts like Win7's Start menu. See http://www.classicshell.net/. (Classic Shell is no longer under development, but still works fine. The code has been forked to a new open source effort called OpenShell, with a new release that may fix a recent problem. Start with Classic Shell, and then look at https://open-shell.github.io/Open-Shell-Menu/ if interested.)
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Dennis