OT Re: XP-pro & DOS

lol, based on the first para visible on the
screen, there is no need for me to read any
further. I don't GAS what you think and have no
intention of petting your ego.
Happy computing; I know it's impossible for
some people.

Twayne

Twayne - Despite my having killfiled you long
ago on
grounds of your intolerable rudeness, I was
unfortunate
enough to see your comment on my post by virtue
of it
being quoted in someone else's reply. I've gone
to the
trouble of un-plonking you so I could let you
know what I
thought, although I can't believe I'm wasting
breath on
you. See inline. If you can defend yourself
without
resorting to insults or abusiveness, that would
be as
refreshing as it would be unlikely. I posed the
rhetorical question "What's your problem?"
regarding you
last year, but I'm no closer to understanding
(nor,
really, giving a flying fig).
"Twayne" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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I was offered a used Laptop with Win-XP
Professional
installed. Can someone tell me if under
XP-pro is also
a DOS-Emulator installed like under XP-home,
so that I
can run DOS-Programms like under XP-home?

Thanks a lot!

Helmut

Yes. Home or Pro have the same capabilities
w/r to
running the older DOS versio programs. If it
runs on
one, it should run on the other.

Natively, yes, But the OP used the ambiguous
term
"DOS-Emulator" and talked about it being
"installed", so
I thought it worth bringing up the subject of
third-party
DOS emulators like DOSBox (as opposed to the
Command
Prompt) in case OP was running his XP Home
programs under
one of those. If he had been, then tried to run
them
natively on this XP Pro laptop and they didn't
work, your
advice was worthless. I don't call that
"confusing the
issue", I'd call it trying to cover all
possibilities.

The below post is so far out in left field as
to be able
to be ignored.

Let's leave Helmut to judge that for himself. I
see you
don't even deign to go into what makes it so
"left field".

The Command Prompt, often
called the DOS window, even by Microsoft, IS
the DOS
emulator. It runs a lot of the standard DOS
commands
most are used to and a huge number of other
added
commands native to XP. Confusing the issue
with the
backwards description below

What on earth is a "backwards description"?
Please
describe that to me (forwards, if there are
options).

is silly and uncalled for and an egotistical
attempt to
do who knows what.

As is so often the case with you, you're unable
to resist
making some sort of personal attack, however
ill-founded.
What was egotistical about what I said, exactly?
How was
my post silly, inaccurate or unhelpful, in any
way at all?


If your DOS programs ran on Home, they're 99.9%
likely
to run the same way on XP Pro. No problem.

*Not* if they had to be run under an emulator on
XP Home.
And "the same way" might need to include tweaks
on the
Compatibility tab of the programs' shortcuts'
Properties
tabs.

Regards,

Twayne


No DOS emulator comes with XP Home or Pro. If
you had
one installed on an XP Home machine, you will
need to
install it yourself on the XP Pro laptop.
You may be thinking of the Command Prompt that
is
available via the Start Menu, Programs >
Accessories (or
Start > Run > cmd). This brings up a DOS-like
Window and
is available on both XP Home and Pro.
It's hard to know what you mean by your "so
that I can
run DOS-Programms like under XP-home".
Depending on the
game, you may need to set its shortcut to run
in XP's
Compatibility Mode or look at a DOS emulator
like
DOSBox. Closing comment: the first thing I'd
do with a
used laptop is format the drives and install
Windows
afresh - otherwise you will never be sure of
what may
be installed on, saved in or lurking within
it. Whether
you do this or not, be sure - before
purchase! - that
the seller provides you with a CD or other
means of
being able to install Windows, should you ever
wish/need to do so.



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