Re: Is it wrong to install WordPerfect 5.1 on a Win XP machine?

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"Cymbal Man Freq." <Don't Bother@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
My blind father is using a crumbling DOS machine; it got infected
by a virus two years ago and may have a boot sector virus (his first
virus in years from checking his e-mail and he never used anti-virus),
and his 16 MB of RAM has shriveled down to 4 MB of RAM. He is
massively resistant to change, well past the point of obstructionism.
He just got a donated Win XP Pro machine (PIII 733 mhz, 384 MB RAM,
20 GB HDD with 5 GB in use, and no cd/dvd burner - a machine I told
him to avoid but it was free and he wouldn't avoid it). He'll be
using the machine for scanning/OCR to text files, and for checking
his e-mail in Outlook 2003 and saving those e-mails in text files.

One other thing you will probably want to do, because he is blind
and moving from DOS to XP and using WP5.1 and likely using a "Windows"
keyboard, take a screwdriver, pry all the "Windows" keycaps off the
keyboard, and throw them away.

It is either another bug in XP or an "unexpected benefit" but
something about running apps in a full screen command window and
pressing some of the "windows" keys will hang some apps, WP5.1 in
particular.

I have not spent the time to track down exactly what it is that
happens to cause this, after the first few complaints about the
windows keys and I pried the keycaps off the keyboards, we had no
further problems with this and I didn't bother chasing it.
.

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