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Posted by P.Schuman on January 2, 2007, 4:25 pm
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> P.Schuman wrote:
> >> GF just tried to install QB07 on her Win98ME machine. But QB says
> >> Win98ME is not supported. I presume that's because Microsoft no longer
> >> supports Win98ME.
> >
> > Wonder what the CPU is on that Win98 machine ?
> > We have a Win98se desktop machine we use for very basic stuff,
> > and the rest are XP laptops in the house.
> > We HAD to move our Quicken 2004 to our laptop
> > because of the lack of horsepower on the Win98se (233Mhz).
> >
> Exactly, but she has a 450 MHz CPU. It works fine, she understands it
> and it is solid as a rock. Moving to Vista is a disaster in the making.
> I doubt that it will run on her machine so we'll have to spend some
> $$$ on a new machine, a bigger hard disk, probably more memory and the
> copy of Vista. And then we will cope with Vista slowness.
yup - I'm typing now on the Dell 233 from 1997 - and it works fine
EXCEPT for those programs that are HUGE with lots of eye candy
or require some function that is not implemented on Win98se...
Running Office 98 - and Eudora email,
and IE 6.0 (that was forced by either Quicken or Turbotax)
What more do you need :)
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