Sorry, bad keyboard. That should have read, "What is the claimed degradation in performance..." On Sun, April 28, 2013 5:27 pm, asharpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > What is the claimed degradation in perforce for running multiple versions > of Windows simultaneously under Virtual PC? I think, unless you have a > fair bit of memory already (which means you are running some 64bit > version of Windows), you will find a significant performance penalty. > > Andrew > > > > On Sun, April 28, 2013 8:13 am, karl shah-jenner wrote: > >> > >>> I have re-installed photoshop 6 now after recovering from the cyber >>> attack a few days ago. I cannot afford new software now and >>> Illustrator 8 >>> no longer works now I have Windows 7. >> >> >> Virtual PC is free from microsoft here: >> http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/search.aspx?q=virtual%20pc%20for >> %2 >> 0windows%207 >> >> >> >> and will allow you to run other versions of Windows - so if you have >> XP-only >> software, install XP from a CD with a licence you own and reinstall your >> software and away you go. I think all versions of windows are >> supported so you need not despair, nor spend more money to run software >> for which you already own a license >> >> regards >> >> k >> >> > >