Boy, you’ve been a big help. Thanks for your input. I still want to upgrade my memory so I believe I’ll wait until I accomplish that. Then I’ll look into doing a virtual XP configuration.
You mentioned it handling basic Windows apps. The ones I really want to run are Quicken 2006 and Family Tree Maker 8.0. Any idea whether a virtual run of XP will handle such applications?
I’m pretty sure Quicken will run just fine. Not too sure about the Family Tree Maker program. If it doesn’t, then you should be able to install Gramps (a family tree program for Linux) on Ubuntu by typing (minus the quotes) “sudo apt-get install gramps” and then type in your user password when asked to do so.