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Serve legacy (really old) Windows Apps in a Linux LTSP 'fat client' Laboratory
I'm trying to serve two legacy Windows Applications (one of them are 16bits) in a Linux LTSP University Lab. We never found a real solution for this problem.
But today this is getting insane; at a ...
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What are some good backup solutions that support legacy OSs?
I'm making a small network in our company that will comprise of 4 machines:
1 Windows 95 PC
1 Windows NT 4.0 PC
1 Windows XP PC
1 Windows XP Server
I want to be able to run one solution that ...
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Why no Win16 support in 64-bit Windows? [closed]
My understanding (from Wikipedia) is that the x64 instruction set supports executing 16-bit protected mode code from long mode, but cannot execute real mode code without being switched out of long ...
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Printing with Old Application (Win2000) is Slow
I have a legacy application that I honestly do not know a whole lot about running on Windows 2000. Sometimes printing is slow. It creates a file at a remote location (I will call this location B) ...
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Legacy apps requiring administrator privileges on XP
I have a legacy Windows 95 app that needs to be run as an Administrator. This is used by students in a school domain.
My predecessor set up a domain administrator account for this purpose and a ...
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Why is Virtual PC being bundled with Windows 7 significant?
As I see it:
Microsoft has always provided backward compatibility for legacy applications;
As far as the end user is concerned, things won't be behaving any different from what they normally expect.
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