Judy Many thanks fro your help. I will be passing it onto my husband when he comes home sometime today ,as he is the one who does the installations of CDs to my computer and he kindly bought me a new upgraded PC,I am not computer literate in that way, but am able to do emails, posting queries etc. Elaine On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Judith Gallus <jessjuba@yahoo.com.au>wrote: > Hi Elaine, I asked a similiar question about Windows 7 recently as I was > thinking of updating my pc from XP & did the Genie Cd's we all have run in > Window 7 > Can't remember quite where I got this answer, it > was mail list of some kind but here is the answer I received back - I > also now run on Mozilla & I have not had any trouble with my pc > since then, so I am not updating yet.............. Hope this helps, it > sure helped me............Judy > > I have > found Windows 7 to be compatible with > most of my Win XP software except for the Macbeth Victorian Pioneer BDM > cds. However, they run well when in "XP Mode" in Windows 7. The catch > is that XP Mode is not available in the Home or Home Premium versions > of Win 7, you need Windows 7 Professional or higher. I am running > Windows 7 Professional 64bit OEM (cost AU$160) and it works well with > all of my 32bit programs. The only drawback that I can see is that > Windows 7 does not come with an imbedded email program (such as Outlook > Express did with Windows XP). You either have to use the web based > WindowsLive program or do like I did and install Mozilla's Thunderbird > email program which works well on Win 7. I also use Firefox as my web > browser because of the security issues associated with Microsoft's > Internet Explorer, it is well known that IE has all sorts of virus and > malware weaknesses./ > > > > ________________________________ > > 1. Needing help with Windows 7 (Elaine Jefferson) > To contact the AUS-MELBOURNE list administrator, send an email to > AUS-MELBOURNE-admin@rootsweb.com. > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-MELBOURNE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >