Thanks Frank! Yet another reason that one needn't upgrade unless one wishes to. As far as the XP machines I'm running; the hardware is a bit too old for Win-7 or later but do fine as they are. Cheers! Corey Bailey On 11/17/2015 7:14 PM, Frank Strauss wrote: > Hi Corey-I have Win 7 Professional, and it allows creation of a virtual > machine running XP. I have three legacy bits of software that only run on > XP or older, and the VM runs them like socks on a rooster. The VM goes > on-line separately from Win7, and in fact needs it's own anti virus > software. I think it's too bad MS didn't include a virtual machine with > Win10 and newer. > > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 9:48 PM, Corey Bailey<[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > >> I would guess by now that CJB has an answer to his question (and several >> alternatives). >> >> I would like to point out that one does not have to convert to Windows 10 >> right away. Not now, not in your lifetime if you wish. For those using >> Win-7, you can expect support from Microsoft for the next 5-6 years and, >> Win-7 will run just fine (unsupported) for years after that. There is that >> annoying pop-up in Win-7 that reminds one to take advantage of the free >> upgrade which will supposedly go away in July of 2016. We'll see when next >> July comes around. What I did was to buy a refurb HD, clone the OS, then >> install the cloned drive and do the Win-10 upgrade. When all was done, I >> reinstalled the original boot drive with Win-7 and went back to work, >> storing the Win-10 drive for future use. >> >> FYI: >> My two ingest computers are running Win-XP and work just fine. The laptop >> that I'm writing this email on, along with one of the other PC's in our >> home are using XP and work just fine. And, (last but not least) a >> surprising percentage of corporate America is still using Win-XP. >> >> So, if you're an early adopter, go for it! If not, you can take your sweet >> time. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Corey >> Corey Bailey Audio Engineering >> www.baileyzone.net >> >> >>> >>> >> > >