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My XP Pro 32-bit gamer has been up and running for a while now, and I really get a kick put of playing Half Life, one of my favorites. The other day I needed to dupe a CD for a RMI on my recent tail bone surgery. As it turned out, the only PC or laptop in the house that was up and running with a...

I must be overlooking something, but I can't get any of the page formatting features to turn on. The tool bar is all grayed out including the 3 little vertical dots that are supposed to select the features. This all started recently so what's going on?

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Windows 7 with the Ryzen CPU This procedure covers Ryzen CPUs only on motherboards with the AMD X370 and AMD X470 chipsets. This project is an update utilizing basically old and used parts, some of which have been...

I have a procedure written in LibreOffice which has 777 words or 5061 characters. The VCF "Post Thread" says there is a limit of 10,000 words when I attempt to post. What am I doing wrong and I do to fix it so I can post?

Very interesting . . .

Very interesting article . . . https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/oldest-known-version-of-dos-unearthed-ms-dos-ancestor-86-dos-version-011-is-now-available-on-the-internet-archive

I'm looking for a cheap, straight pinned, 3600 that will POST. Mine is toast and I need one for several X370 motherboard projects which have the basic un-stepped BIOS.

Happy Thanksgiving to All

From: https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/oems-clones-on-ebay-continuous-listings.60137/post-1344601 First time I've seen a Tandy 1200 from1985. Didn't realize that they even existed that far back.

This link may be of interest: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/enthusiast-grafts-hdmi-port-onto-isa-graphics-card

I wanted to install Windows Vista on my XP machine as dual booter on drive D. I wasn't paying attention and somehow Vista over wrote XP and installed itself on Drive C, atop of XP. I noticed what was going on and was taken aback when a window popped up informing me that XP was now XP.bak. You...

Over on Tom's today there's an article about some folks getting together and have revived a site for updating various classic Windows systems. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-update-restored-site-provides-updates-for-classic-windows-versions

For those you who have all but given up on activating XP, there is a way in which you may activate XP without a phone line. This is not a 3rd party crack but a mere edit of a line in the registry. One version is a simple manual registry procedure while the other is an app called...

Just read that ESPN is going off cable and streaming only which mean you will need a subscription. This may be the death nell for some cable outlets. Seems streaming is the wave of the future, and I'm on the waiting list for T Mobile in my area whenever they get the tower completed.

Intel has sold off their server entity to MiTac, a Taiwanese outfit.

Several well known sources have recently reported that W12 may be in the offing in 2024. Speculation is it will be cloud based and may require a subscription.

https://www.quora.com/Had-Commodore-not-gone-bust-and-continued-their-line-of-Amiga-computers-fast-forward-today-What-innovation-would-we-have-how-would-their-machines-differ-from-mainstream-Windows-desktops-and-laptops-of-the-2020s-and