----- Original Message ----- From: "Joyce Owen" <jjowen@sympatico.ca> To: <gen-comp-tips@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 12:46 PM Subject: Re: [GEN-COMP-TIPS] Go back from Windows XP to Millennium Hullo Joyce, Windows XP contains alternative software known as, Classic On your desktop: right click Start, left click Properties, key in Classic, OK When in Classic, you can re-introduce your old files and work with them the usual way. I often work with old files on floppy disks. It will make you laugh, but twelve months ago, I had to pay good money to have a floppy disk drive installed in my brand new XP computer. Regards, Jim Windsor NZ

Hello Jim, Thanks very much for that information and I will try it out later today. I realize that the XP will be better and, like you, I have a lot of material on floppy discs and also had to buy the disc drive to be able to use them. I'm now converting everything to CD's. I really appreciate all the help everybody has been providing. Joyce Toronto

Joyce; May I chime in here with a thought, not only for your future use, but others as well. Once you have have restored all your data, including data from floppy drives, you may want to consider storing your data on an external hard drive instead of CDs. If technology continues it's onward march, i.e., floppy's are now pretty much obsolete, it may be that CDs will also become obsolete. I believe hard drives will be around longer than CDs. This is just a thought to consider since you had problems moving data from one OS to another OS (ME--XP). My experience: I had lots of Windows 98 backup data on zip drives. When I moved to Windows XP I forgot to restore the data first. I then gave away my Windows 98 computer and so I have zip drives, with data, that I cannot get to. Since then, I have been storing as much data as possible in text format, with an extra copy on an external hard drive. (This external hard drive is plug and play and is stored away from the computer, much like people do with CDs.) I've chosen the text format because it has been around the longest and I believe will continue to be around far into the future. One last thought: my ancestors 200 years ago did not do any genealogy, as far as I can tell. 200 years from now, I want the data I'm working on now, to be available to my descendants. Enjoy the search! Thayne Joyce Owen wrote: > Hello Jim, > > Thanks very much for that information and I will try it out later today. > > I realize that the XP will be better and, like you, I have a lot of > material on floppy discs and also had to buy the disc drive to be able > to use them. I'm now converting everything to CD's. > > I really appreciate all the help everybody has been providing. > > Joyce > > Toronto > > -------------------------------------- > Having trouble with your subscription? Contact the List Admin at gen-comp-tips-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GEN-COMP-TIPS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >