To the best of my knowledge, I believe that you can do so.

The printer and scanner can work with the system.

ok will test and see within the hour

we use Bit at work Chami, seems ok, but I use the free one from Rogers, been good so far now for several years

WIN10 has its own inbuilt anti-virus and malware program. The only other program you can add in order to make things double secure is Malware Bytes Anti Malware.

got the partition done, trying to figure out how to boot and get XP to self install in that new created partition

Amral posted:

got the partition done, trying to figure out how to boot and get XP to self install in that new created partition

you will likely run into problems with 32-bit XP drivers if your new machine is 64-bit

hmmm rass I am trying to avoid running 2 computers, which is what I am doing right now.

Oh well if it does not work, I will just continue the way I am doing using my KVM switch

Amral posted:

hmmm rass I am trying to avoid running 2 computers, which is what I am doing right now.

I am running three laptops! One has W7, one has W8.1, and the one I am on right now has W10. It is the only way that I have at the moment to make sure I don't have to invest Thousands of U$ for the latest version of the software that I have been using for ages.

Amral posted:

Can I run XP and Win 10 on the same computer, WIN 10 preloaded, I have an old printer and scanner which will only work on XP and some software. Too cheap to buy stuff that I really do no need as yet

It can be done but on a clean install of 10 and on different partitions. If you are on a desktop, simply use too hard drive in a swapable tray.

In any event, very good laser printer/scanner/copier are less than a hundred dollars these days and they are economical. I would do that and save myself the trouble especially if the old printer is an inkjet.

I have not read most of the above.......but

I did the change over and encountered the following problem...

I could not attach nor upload any file..........I am not sure if this bug was fixed as I am using another computer with XP win 7..

Be cautious..

Win 10 users may find their comp not shutting off. I sometimes have to do a hard shut down,apparently some comps also go on hibernate before shutting down. Win10 aint that good as yet.

nah is a laser jet, I have 3 new boxes of toner  that is why I am not getting rid of it yet

HP Laser Jet 1000 series

http://www.amazon.com/HP-HEWQ1...rinter/dp/B00005QEZ9

The general recommendations are that one should not install Win 10 at this time because of the numerous "bugs and kinks" that need to be addresses.

I have Win 8 which works without any problems and will install Win 10 when the issues are resolved.

Demerara_Guy posted:

The general recommendations are that one should not install Win 10 at this time because of the numerous "bugs and kinks" that need to be addresses.

I have Win 8 which works without any problems and will install Win 10 when the issues are resolved.

Cyar you old rass da side! WIN10 is the most bug free release of an MS product ever. It is a paradigm shift as large as 8 was to XP so it is not unusual that there are backward compatibility problems with older hardware.

Stormborn posted:

Demerara_Guy posted:

The general recommendations are that one should not install Win 10 at this time because of the numerous "bugs and kinks" that need to be addresses.

I have Win 8 which works without any problems and will install Win 10 when the issues are resolved.

Cyar you old rass da side! WIN10 is the most bug free release of an MS product ever. It is a paradigm shift as large as 8 was to XP so it is not unusual that there are backward compatibility problems with older hardware.

Still babbling to yourself in the wilderness.

Stormborn posted:

Demerara_Guy posted:

The general recommendations are that one should not install Win 10 at this time because of the numerous "bugs and kinks" that need to be addresses.

I have Win 8 which works without any problems and will install Win 10 when the issues are resolved.

Cyar you old rass da side! WIN10 is the most bug free release of an MS product ever. It is a paradigm shift as large as 8 was to XP so it is not unusual that there are backward compatibility problems with older hardware.

You ras sayin my hardware ole an backward?

cain posted:

Stormborn posted:

Demerara_Guy posted:

The general recommendations are that one should not install Win 10 at this time because of the numerous "bugs and kinks" that need to be addresses.

I have Win 8 which works without any problems and will install Win 10 when the issues are resolved.

Cyar you old rass da side! WIN10 is the most bug free release of an MS product ever. It is a paradigm shift as large as 8 was to XP so it is not unusual that there are backward compatibility problems with older hardware.

You ras sayin my hardware ole an backward?

As long as it is Hardware you need not worry....It will work with them older things. The complaint is with old things not working...new things fine...always have happy endings

Demerara_Guy posted:

Stormborn posted:

Demerara_Guy posted:

The general recommendations are that one should not install Win 10 at this time because of the numerous "bugs and kinks" that need to be addresses.

I have Win 8 which works without any problems and will install Win 10 when the issues are resolved.

Cyar you old rass da side! WIN10 is the most bug free release of an MS product ever. It is a paradigm shift as large as 8 was to XP so it is not unusual that there are backward compatibility problems with older hardware.

Still babbling to yourself in the wilderness.

And what were you doing ...drooling misinformation to yourself?

I haven't seen a good functioning dual boot system for a while.

Have you thought about a VM?

Stormborn posted:

Amral posted:

Can I run XP and Win 10 on the same computer, WIN 10 preloaded, I have an old printer and scanner which will only work on XP and some software. Too cheap to buy stuff that I really do no need as yet

It can be done but on a clean install of 10 and on different partitions. If you are on a desktop, simply use too hard drive in a swapable tray.

In any event, very good laser printer/scanner/copier are less than a hundred dollars these days and they are economical. I would do that and save myself the trouble especially if the old printer is an inkjet.

I had to replace my hard drive and installed a a newer version of windows. I had a Canon ImageClassMF3110 laser printer with 3/4 full cartridge. I had to junk the printer because there was no driver for it. I bought a new Canon ImageClass Mf212w. Is a printer , copier and scanner.

Dougan posted:

I haven't seen a good functioning dual boot system for a while.

Have you thought about a VM?

Actually you can using separate hard drives (which are cheap currently)

Dougan posted:

I haven't seen a good functioning dual boot system for a while.

Have you thought about a VM?

I dual boot red hat  and windows 10 on my personal laptop. I have Vista,  and 7  and 10 swapable boot  drives.

skeldon_man posted:

Stormborn posted:

Amral posted:

Can I run XP and Win 10 on the same computer, WIN 10 preloaded, I have an old printer and scanner which will only work on XP and some software. Too cheap to buy stuff that I really do no need as yet

It can be done but on a clean install of 10 and on different partitions. If you are on a desktop, simply use too hard drive in a swapable tray.

In any event, very good laser printer/scanner/copier are less than a hundred dollars these days and they are economical. I would do that and save myself the trouble especially if the old printer is an inkjet.

I had to replace my hard drive and installed a a newer version of windows. I had a Canon ImageClassMF3110 laser printer with 3/4 full cartridge. I had to junk the printer because there was no driver for it. I bought a new Canon ImageClass Mf212w. Is a printer , copier and scanner.

That's common with Windows 10,drivers for older peripheral will not work.

Django posted:

skeldon_man posted:

Stormborn posted:

Amral posted:

Can I run XP and Win 10 on the same computer, WIN 10 preloaded, I have an old printer and scanner which will only work on XP and some software. Too cheap to buy stuff that I really do no need as yet

It can be done but on a clean install of 10 and on different partitions. If you are on a desktop, simply use too hard drive in a swapable tray.

In any event, very good laser printer/scanner/copier are less than a hundred dollars these days and they are economical. I would do that and save myself the trouble especially if the old printer is an inkjet.

I had to replace my hard drive and installed a a newer version of windows. I had a Canon ImageClassMF3110 laser printer with 3/4 full cartridge. I had to junk the printer because there was no driver for it. I bought a new Canon ImageClass Mf212w. Is a printer , copier and scanner.

That's common with Windows 10,drivers for older peripheral will not work.

I had Vista and installed 7. I am not sure all the bugs from 10 are out yet.
I  like how 7 works. My friend has 10 and I am not too sure I am ready for the problems of missing drivers etc.

skeldon_man posted:

Django posted:

skeldon_man posted:

Stormborn posted:

Amral posted:

Can I run XP and Win 10 on the same computer, WIN 10 preloaded, I have an old printer and scanner which will only work on XP and some software. Too cheap to buy stuff that I really do no need as yet

It can be done but on a clean install of 10 and on different partitions. If you are on a desktop, simply use too hard drive in a swapable tray.

In any event, very good laser printer/scanner/copier are less than a hundred dollars these days and they are economical. I would do that and save myself the trouble especially if the old printer is an inkjet.

I had to replace my hard drive and installed a a newer version of windows. I had a Canon ImageClassMF3110 laser printer with 3/4 full cartridge. I had to junk the printer because there was no driver for it. I bought a new Canon ImageClass Mf212w. Is a printer , copier and scanner.

That's common with Windows 10,drivers for older peripheral will not work.

I had Vista and installed 7. I am not sure all the bugs from 10 are out yet.
I  like how 7 works. My friend has 10 and I am not too sure I am ready for the problems of missing drivers etc.

On one computer i had Vista move to Win 8.1 and  now Win 10 so far it's ok ,i also have a media sever software installed on it,so a Smart TV connects to it,that computer is connected to an older tv which makes it a smart tv.On another one i have dual boot Win7 and Linux Mint(which i use mostly)

Personally I have had no problems with 8.1 on the laptop that I am typing on. Whatever bugs it is supposed to have, I haven't experienced any of them. But mine is a OEM install from Sony, with its own drivers. Sony has not yet released the drivers for my particular laptop, so I have not been able to try W10 on it. But I have W10 installed on my smaller Vaio. Unfortunately I can't find any advantages that it has over W8.1 as far as my own usage is concerned. So people like me are likely to stick to W8.1.

I thought WIN8 was supposed to be a mistake, seems it works well for u guys.

Mr.T posted:

Personally I have had no problems with 8.1 on the laptop that I am typing on. Whatever bugs it is supposed to have, I haven't experienced any of them. But mine is a OEM install from Sony, with its own drivers. Sony has not yet released the drivers for my particular laptop, so I have not been able to try W10 on it. But I have W10 installed on my smaller Vaio. Unfortunately I can't find any advantages that it has over W8.1 as far as my own usage is concerned. So people like me are likely to stick to W8.1.

I still use XP at the repair shop,the service center software will not work on newer operation system,upgrading the software is expensive.