Good-bye Windows XP; Hello Windows Millenium

Yep, that's right. I formated my hard drive with Windows XP on it and installed Windows Millenium.

This is only on the machine that my kids use. All they run is educational software and I got fed up with lots of titles not working under Windows XP. I guess many of the publishers still target Window 9x since there's a lot of it around still in schools. You think that they would at least do minor upgrades or patches to have it run under XP but no, they don't seem to.

It was a bit of a time warp installing it and remembering where everything was in this version. Microsoft, please get the education market to catch-up with you.

Print | posted on Sunday, June 27, 2004 10:05 PM

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# re: Good-bye Windows XP; Hello Windows Millenium

Left by Hassan Voyeau at 6/28/2004 3:05 PM
Gravatar You should have created a dual-boot system.

# re: Good-bye Windows XP; Hello Windows Millenium

Left by Ian at 6/28/2004 3:51 PM
Gravatar Yeah, that's what I used to have set up for them. The reason I didn't do that again is that it's an old computer with only a 6Gb hard disk left in it.

Anyway, I don't think I have any Windows XP only titles and it's a right pain having to reboot the machine when they want to switch games.

I'll buy a new machine for them when this one doesn't do the job anymore. If I get around to it, I was thinking of creating a Windows ME image for Virtual PC and see how well that works.

# re: Good-bye Windows XP; Hello Windows Millenium

Left by James at 8/23/2007 8:41 AM
Gravatar hey i run a millenium and i want to run acid pro 6.0 on my millenium machine because i only run an xp machine downstair all my upstairs machines run on millenium. So anyway, i want to know if theres a way to make my computer think its running xp so i can run acid pro 6.0 is that possible? Or maybe I could have a program within millenium that is kind of like an openable windows xp and i can install programs on that

Regards,
James

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