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To: Still Thinking

Thanks, I’ll give that a try too- looksl iek there’s a couple of options

I use virtualbox (I tried VMware, but had trouble running windows and photoshop- for some reason it would freeze every time- but virtualbox allows me to run it without any issues- it’s a little slow, but not bad really-)


92 posted on 04/01/2017 9:25:39 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Bob434
I tried VMware, but had trouble running windows and photoshop- for some reason it would freeze every time- but virtualbox allows me to run it without any issues

Thanks, good to know. I migrated my wife to running Linux on her laptop when XP went out of support because she was going to have to learn a new OS anyway, and almost everything she does is internet so Linux is fine. Even got Netflix working in Chrome without too much trouble.

But...she used to run Print Shop quite a bit and needs to do that again. I can't get it to work under Wine, so a couple nights ago I tried VMware, but the Print Shop install seems to hang. I can probably figure out and fix the issue, but maybe just trying Virtual Box instead of VMWare would be easier. I've just worked a lot more with VMware than Virtual Box so I went there first. Do you know if VBox will work with the VMDK format drive image from VMware, or a VHD from Virtual PC, both of which I have, or do I have to start over with their image type? I've used VB on Windows some, but I think I did a bare metal install in the VM if I recall correctly.

106 posted on 04/01/2017 12:11:31 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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