If your new PC (or laptop) comes with Vista, then you should be able to install XP as well and have a dual boot system, where you choose the OS at boot-up. XP runs faster than Vista, it needs less memory, less money and works faster. The PC maker you bought from should have offered you the option of XP as well as Vista. It's still an available OS, and a "downgrade" to it is included with the Vista licence. Mark -- On 12 Jan 2009, at 08:31, Dawn Webb wrote: > That's a good idea IF you have a huge memory and lots of everything > else you > need, money too probably, because I can see the whole hing working > so slowly > it might take a week to log on! > > Dawn > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Trevor > Sent: Monday, 12 January 2009 12:17 PM > To: Michelle Watson > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Digger on the laptop > > I've also done the same thing over the last couple of weeks - > desktop XP Pro > to laptop Vista. No problem so far but the salesman did say that I > could > partition the disc and load XP so I had both available. > > Trevor > > 2009/1/12 Michelle Watson <[email protected]> > >> At 08:49 AM 11/01/2009, Julie M Hopper wrote: >>> Greetings listers, >>> >>> Many of you will, as I have just done, be changing over from PC to >>> laptops >>> as the technology advances. My problem was - how do I change my >>> precious >>> Digger programme over to my laptop without risking the loss of the >>> whole >>> thing? No doubt others have also encountered this problem. >>> >>> The main difficulty I found is that if Digger is on a PC with >>> Windows XP (as >>> ours was), then transferring it to my laptop with Windows Vista is >>> fraught >>> with problems as there are compatibility issues. Thank you >>> Microsoft! > What >>> this meant for me was that I could transfer the data via a memory >>> stick, but >>> the programme to read the data would not transfer. Net result - >>> the whole >>> series of Digger files was on my laptop with no means of accessing >>> them! >>> However, I have ascertained that Macbeth, who published Digger as >>> you know, >>> are well aware of this issue, and there is an update to Digger >>> that may >>> solve this problem. So - fear not, if this is a problem you have >>> encountered, check the update on the Macbeth website and you may >>> find that >>> this will be all you need to transfer and access your Digger >>> files. So give >>> it a try before you sink into the depths of despair... >>> >>> Regards >>> Julie H. >> >> Hi Julie, >> >> I don't know if this will help anyone, but it might. I too, have just >> made the change from a desktop running XP to a laptop running Vista. >> Compatibility issues will always occur with OS changes, especially >> when dealing with old software. >> >> One issue that I noticed with FTM is that while it was happy to work >> with the program running on the hard drive and the data file on an >> external hard drive, it wouldn't work with the data on a thumb drive. >> My suspicion is that the 2006 software just couldn't cope with the >> idea of a USB thumb drive. >> >> So using an external hard drive rather than a thumb drive might solve >> some issues. >> >> Cheers, >> Michelle >> >> >> --------------------- >> Michelle Watson >>