Stilly -

I believe Joe O(?) has had comments about checking out the Win7 "XP Mode."

I don't believe he was too happy with what he found.

Win7 calls it "Virtual WinXP" and advertises it as if it's something any Win7 can do; but in reality it only exists in the two (or maybe it's only one?) most expensive versions of Win7. If I recall what I've seen, you have to have WinXP running on the machine and do an "upgrade to Win7" rather than starting with a clean Win7 install. Installing Win7 first doesn't work. I believe that if WinXP was installed, and you "upgraded" to any version of Win7, you could do a subsequent upgrade to one of the super versions of Win7 and get it; but the instructions I looked up months ago were somewhat vague.

The cost to upgrade from the common Win7 versions to one that includes "Virtual XP" capability is pretty steep.

Note that it has been several months, IIRC, since I've looked at any of this, so my recollection may be a bit fuzzy.

John