"Good Riddance Win98 ...." Sun Aug-21-05 03:00 AM by _Chewy_
Well after years of dual-booting with Win98 and Win2K - I'm finally getting rid of both. Actually, I'm glad of it - it's like throwing out an old pair of shoes. Now that I have XP the way I like it - I will dual-boot with XP and Linux (Mandrake or SuSe).
Now the tricky part - I have Never Winter Nights installed in Win98 - one of few games I ever played in W98 - but it's not my copy. A friend of mine a few years ago let me install his copy, yeah I know tsk tsk.... But since he's moved back to the East coast, I have no way of contacting him and not that I would either for a silly video game.
I thought there was a utility within NSW 2001 where it could "migrate" a program over to another OS - or partition. I took a 2nd look earlier tonight and I guess I was wrong. Perhaps subsequent versions have that?? (2003 or 2005?).
Does anyone know of a good program that will "move or migrate" another application that's already installed to another partition?
It might be possible to move the game and make it work, but better to buy it then you'll have it. (since it's something you really like, it's cheap entertainment. That's the way I look at games, anyway)
However, even if it was possible to move a suite of complex applications like Norton SystemWorks, Norton Systemworks 2001 isn't compatible with Windows XP
You really don't need that stuff with Windows XP though, and for antivirus, free Avast is pretty good.
#5. "RE: Good Riddance Win98 ...." In response to Grogan (Reply # 3) Sun Aug-21-05 03:02 AM by _Chewy_
>However, even if it was possible to move a suite of complex >applications like Norton SystemWorks, Norton Systemworks 2001 >isn't compatible with Windows XP
No actually I was hoping there was a utility provided within NSW where it would what I'm looking for. I swear i thought I remember seeing long ago some type of feature in NSW where it could migrate an application to another OS. Maybe my memory is foggy....
>You really don't need that stuff with Windows XP though, and >for antivirus, free Avast is pretty good.
For a short bit I did have NSW 2005 on here but the bootup time to the desktop took way too long for my liking. Based on the many positive comments on this board - I decided to load Avast (free ed) on here and it's been pretty good.
>It might be possible to move the game and make it work, but >better to buy it then you'll have it. (since it's something >you really like, it's cheap entertainment. That's the way I >look at games, anyway) >
'Cheap' is in my budget - I've purchased all my games for $10-$15 max. I'm not a hard core gamer where I need to go out and buy the latest release - even with HL 2 with all the hype - I can wait.
Partition Magic comes to mind for moving programs to a different partion that is part of the same operating system. Moving a program to another operating system isn't going to happen unless that program is one of those that installs everything completely into it's own directory without dumping pieces into Windows itself. I don't think that program is one of those.
