It's not easy, because they're designed to run in DOS and Windows XP doesn't support that. There is one emulator that gives it a shot at it though, and details of that can be found here... Always look for a text document in the game's main directory once installed. Everything you need to know is in there - and you may even find an additional document that explains the intricacies of deeper concepts...

Definitely go for Windows XP for the simple reason that it is designed for both the business & consumer thus is more adept at games playing.

Open GL is supported through video card drivers, not the OS. Some Windows XP drivers do support this feature, but some don't. If yours doesn't, located the latest Windows 2000 driver for your card and install it. Quake 3 Arena and your other Open GL favorites should work once again.

Most programs that work on Windows 95/98/Me and NT will work on versions of Windows XP. As with Windows 2000, several compatibility updates are sure to made after the product is released. There will be problems running older DOS programs (if they will run at all).

Go to Explorer, insert a floppy disk, right-click on the A Drive, click Format, check Make System disk and click OK.

The new smooth blue or green wrapping on the Start menu, Task Bar, and on all of the windows are part of the new visual design for Windows XP. This feature can be turned off to speed up your computer, however this will revert all windows and menus back to the gray rectangular design of Windows 98 or 2000. If the My Computer icon is on your desktop, right-click on it. Otherwise, go to the Start menu and right-click on My Computer. Select Adjust for best performance. Click Apply.

I would try the compatibility wizard. Go to Start>Programs>Accessories>Program Compatibility Wizard. Then follow the prompts. I have not tried this myself since I am not running any games on XP, but my local computer shop tells me that that's all there is to it. Also feel free to post any further questions on this subject here: http://pub131.ezboard.com/fjpspanzersfrm10 I recently installed People's General on a new Compaq computer running Windows XP.

This problem is solved in recent Cygwin/X releases. Use cygwin setup to upgrade the xorg-x11-xwin package. The older X11 releases on the various commercial unices define the AltGr key as ModeSwitch, MetaR, AltR or similar. Cygwin/X expects it to be ISO_Level3_Switch. For reasons unknown to us this is reset when loggin into the remote host. As far as we don't have access to such a machine we are unable to track this down and find a reason.

Yes - the calculators work with XP SP2, just like they worked with XP SP1. The only difference is a small security message that appears if you install Java using their automatic installation routine (available at www.java.com). In the previous version of Windows XP, Java would install without any special prompting. In XP SP2, you need to click "download" from the security message that appears.

Yes, there is a way, and it is built into the OS itself, but you have to convert to NTFS to take advantage of it. To convert over to NTFS, go to the command prompt (Start Menu -> Run -> cmd) and type in the following command. Once you have converted over, open Windows Explorer, go to the Tools menu, Folder Options, View tab, and then uncheck Simple File Sharing. Right-click on the folder, choose Properties, go to the Security tab, click the Advanced button.

This page has some links to utilities you can use. The "EBCD – Emergency Boot CD (v0.60)" sounds very promising, and you can try it.

Yes there is a way to find out how long Windows XP has been up. In fact, this tip will work on Windows 2000 also. Networked users (or those with an ethernet based broadband connection) can also get Uptime information by clicking on the Local Area Connection status in your taskbar. Note - this is for NETWORK uptime and may not accurately reflect actual system uptime. There is a Real-Time version of Microsoft's Uptime monitor using Microsoft Visual Basic .

I started with this hobby just at the end of 1999, so there are a lot of older games in my possession, for which I am going to make keyboard cards. As a rule for newer games, I usually make keyboard layouts for them as soon as I buy them.

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NCDC we have installed the Atlas successfully onto a Windows 2000 pc. (We haven't tried it in Windows ME or Windows XP.) Here's how we made it work in Windows 2000: Please note that neither NCDC nor ESRI supports ArcExplorer in Windows 2000, or Windows ME, or Windows XP. Please read the Atlas' Minimum Requirements page. Download Sun's jre 1.3.1 for Microsoft Windows from the sun website. We got it from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/jre/download-windows.

Microsoft article: How to Use System Files to Create a Boot Disk to Guard Against Being Unable to Start Windows XP

CPC software runs in the Command window of Windows NT, XP, and Win2000. This Command window (often referred to as a DOS window) is, by default, setup with "QuickEdit Mode" selected. This prevents the mouse from selecting items in any DOS application screen. You will need to turn off QuickEdit Mode to get normal use of the mouse. If you find that you cannot use your mouse to select screen items, the fix is simple.

Symptoms: Internet Explorer no longer allows a right-click to open a new window. LiveUpdate no longer functions correctly. The error "Incompatible Version of the RPC Stub" is received. Reason: These errors are caused when a newer version of a DLL like Oleaut32.dll and Olepro32.dll (and possibly others) are installed on incompatible systems. For example, Oleaut32.dll version 3.

Welderqual is a full 32-bit application, so it will work quite happily on Windows 98, 2000, NT and XP.

Your touch-enabled mouse will work with Windows XP provided that you have downloaded an XP compatible hardware driver from your hardware manufacturer. For a Logitech iFeel mouse, for example, you would download the XP-compatible MouseWare® software from Logitech's website. The latest version of MouseWare (supporting Windows XP and below) can be found Logitech's web site.

Yes. SlideWhere can be used with Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows2000 (service pack 3) and later versions.

Probably not. But AV vendors are beginning to release Windows XP-compatible products, such as Norton Anti-Virus 2002. Other Windows 9x products that you shouldn't use in Windows XP include disk utilities and other low-level system utilities. But Windows XP will warn you about these applications during the upgrade process, or later, if you try to install them in Windows XP.

Note that doing any of the below will erase all data in your hard disk! You can boot from a Windows 9x boot disk, reformat the XP partition and install a previous version of Windows. If XP is installed using NTFS file system, you'll first have to use FDISK to delete the partition, type FDISK at the prompt. Once you are at the menu, select "Delete Non-dos Partition.

Use the Unlocker utility. This file will unlock all file handles on the file/folder and even offer to delete it for you before the program locks it again!

Microsoft is aiming to combine the features of Windows Me for the consumer, and reliability of Windows 2000 for businesses and power users into one new operating system. This operating system in its' different flavors will have new features for gaming, multimedia applications, audio, etc. in addition to features for networking, development, etc. for businesses and power users.

Windows XP comes in Professional and Home versions. Servers will also come out, but they are still in beta testing.

Windows XP Home is $99 for an upgrade copy and $199 for the full version. Windows XP Pro is $199 for the upgrade version and $299 for a full copy.

While the older Versions (98,ME,2000,XP) of Windows were all good operating systems, none them were designed to cope with the magnitude of dangers on the World Wide Web in the year 2008. These systems just weren’t designed to handle the nasty stuff that’s out there today. Most of these systems that I see either won’t boot at all or are so slow and/or plagued with so many error messages that they are practically unusable.