Hi Barry, Thanks very much for your very practical advice. Incidentally my IT people had already6 told me that the 32 bit machine was the most likely to work, but they could promise nothing. I'll talk to my IT people again about changing as I do have a huge amount of family history on my machine and would hate to lose it. This is just another example of what a terrific site this is. Jean Whimp South Australia -----Original Message----- From: sct-isleofmull-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:sct-isleofmull-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of BRH Sent: Sunday, 12 January 2014 12:30 PM To: sct-isleofmull@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLEOFMULL] Microsoft XP Support Hello Ian & Jean, I switched from XP to Windows 7 Pro (64bit) a couple of years ago. At that time I discovered the Australian BDM Indexes were not compatible with Windows 7 but got around the problem by enabling Windows 7's "XP Mode". This program is freely available from the MS website for certain versions of Win7. It runs XP as a virtual machine on your Win7 desktop and the BDM Indexes work fine when installed in it. You can enable/disable I/net access in XP Mode so the MS support withdrawal should not be an issue. I'll also mention that I've been using MS Word 2000 for many years without Microsoft updates support and have never had a problem. It works fine in Windows 7 also. Here's a link for info about xpmode - http://windowssecrets.com/top-story/using-windows-7s-xp-mode-step-by-step/ Regards, Barry Howard, Victoria, Australia On 1/12/2014 9:46 AM, Jean Whimp wrote: > I was told some time ago that the Australian BDM programs might work > with > windows7 but only on the 32 bit machine (not the 64 bit)...that makes > no sense to me but i share it for those who understand more. Maybe > I'll now have to try it out. > jean > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCT-ISLEOFMULL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message