Compatibility with Windows 7

[David McFarlane]

Michiel,

Indeed, I still use Windows 98 on my home 
desktop, works just fine for me.  And we kept a 
Win98 machine for a long time in our fMRI 
facility just for running E-Prime as part of 
IFIS.  I have to disagree with you about Win98 
security though, I ran Win98 both on campus and 
off for a long time without firewalls and 
suffered no problems while Win2000 & XP users got 
hacked into -- I credit that to the *weakness* of 
Win98, i.e., Win98 simply did not act as a server 
out of the box and so did not make a good target for network hackers!

As to USB drives, those work as long as you can 
install a Win98 driver for them as I have for 
many.  Alas, manufacturers are making fewer Win98 
drivers for their devices, so at some point I 
will have to abandon Win98 just to use some new 
gizmo.  More importantly, EP2 does not work with 
Win98, and for all I know neither does 
EP1.2.  But back to the original question, EP1.1 
does work with Win98 and that would work for the original poster.

Cheers,
-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder


>Hi David & List,
>Happy new year!
>Anyway, for a further tuppence, why not go all 
>hardcore and use good old Windows 98 (SECOND 
>EDITION!)? I remember we had E-Prime running on 
>Pentium machines and, testing this with the 
>E-Prime time-testing tools showed that they 
>performed much better than any Windows XP 
>system. Although that may well be because the XP 
>lab-machines were 'helpdesk supported', who did 
>not like shutting down processes such as 
>anti-virus, the amount of background processing 
>was much lower on the 98SE machines as well, 
>which, I believe, greatly improved timing. 
>Besides, PST wasn't quite sure they supported XP 
>up until XP was actually getting quite old and 
>Microsoft discontinued supporting 98.
>
>Granted, the security of 98 was absolutely 
>rubbish, but that's easily solved by putting a 
>good old lock on the doors to the lab; and no, 
>it didn't usually support USB disks, but floppy disks were fine...
>
>Cheers,
>Mich
>
>Michiel Spapé
>Research Fellow
>Perception & Action group
>University of Nottingham
>School of Psychology
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: e-prime at googlegroups.com 
>[mailto:e-prime at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of David McFarlane
>Sent: 07 January 2010 17:54
>To: e-prime at googlegroups.com
>Subject: RE: Compatibility with Windows 7
>
>I don't run the Win7/XP mode/EP setup myself, 
>but I can imagine why I would.  I would never do 
>this for running subjects, but I might well want 
>to to this on my development machine so that I 
>could have all the advanatages of Win7 for most 
>of my work and still do E-Prime development all 
>on the same modern machine.  Then of course I 
>would copy the result to a good old XP machine for running subjects.
>
>Just my $.02,
>-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder
>
>
> >I can't believe what I'm reading. Really? Run Windows 7 in XP mode?
> >Why bother? Why upgrade from XP in the first place then? Absurdities
> >don't get much better than that.
> >
> >________________________________________
> >From: e-prime at googlegroups.com [e-prime at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
> >Gilgamesh [fblanco81 at gmail.com]
> >Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 6:19 AM
> >To: E-Prime
> >Subject: Re: Compatibility with Windows 7
> >
> >It worked with me.
> >Thank you very much!
> >
> >On 27 dic 2009, 16:29, Craig <cmark... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >   One idea is to use XP mode in Windows 7.  There is virtualization
> > > software available from Windows to allow you to run XP software in
> > > Windows 7.  I am actually planning on trying this out in the next
> > > few days as well. Here is the link:http://www.microsoft.com/windows/
> > > virtual-pc/download.aspx

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