William,

VPC is really easy to use. If I can do it I am sure you can. For example
on this box (XP Pro SP2) I have virtual machines with Win 98 (both out of
the box and fully patched, Win Me, out of the box and fully patched, XP
Pro SP2 (you don't always want to test install software on a "real"
machine), and a couple of Vista builds. The big drawback but not relevant
to your problem is no access to USB devices such as scanners and the video
and sound emulation is of rather ancient devices by current standards.
The beauty of running a virtual machine is at the end of the session you
can either commit your work to disk so that when you next start it is as
you left it or quite the virtual machine without saving meaning that the
system when next started knows nothing of the previous session.

Best of luck with whatever you choose to do.
--
Mike Maltby



wrote:


Mike, I am very much intrigued by the Virtual PC idea,
and have bookmarked the link, and printed out the document.
As a scientist, and having worked with APL for 30+ years, with its
Virtual Workspaces, I think I know the concept. Whether I would
ever be able to unravel all that is probably involved with that
software, is another question. For now, as I mentioned to Ron, I
have backed down from ME to WIN 98 and am hoping to be able to
solve the problems there. You get a Triple A-Plus for your efforts,
but the time came to back away from our impasse,at least pro tem.