Word 2000 in Windows XP Pro?

[showhost]

Need help...

I just built a new computer and installed Windows XP Pro. Will my old Word 2000 run in this operating system?

Larry

 

[Derango]

Uh....yea. Why wouldn't it?

You could still run Word version 4.0 if you wanted to.

 

[showhost]

It seems that all the new software has to have a label on it that says XP compatible. XP is not DOS based and I figured the software might have to be written to run in XP specifically. Microsoft touts Word 2002 as THE Word program for Windows XP.

Larry

 

[Grant]

installing word 2000 or office 2000 on win xp pro will work just fine.

 

[Derango]

<< It seems that all the new software has to have a label on it that says XP compatible. XP is not DOS based and I figured the software might have to be written to run in XP specifically. Microsoft touts Word 2002 as THE Word program for Windows XP.

Larry >>



Thats because they want you to spend money needlessly upgrading your software. That and Word is a windows app. XP also emmulates a DOS compatibility mode that works pretty well. You can run pretty much anything on XP, with some exceptions. Not everything is going to run well on it..but most stuff will.

 

[GrumpyMan]

Yeah don't listen to MS. I have Office 2000 installed on mine with no problems at all.

 

[showhost]

Okay thanks...

Here's the follow-up: Same question but will Norton Systemworks 2000 (v.3.0) work on Win XP as well?? No longer a MS question.

Larry

 

[Derango]

Probably. Although the programs that usualy don't work right are the utility programs... I'm not sure on this one.

 

[Bglad]

According to Symantec the answer is NO.

I wonder however if it will work as long as you are running FAT32 and not NTFS. I don't know the answer to this though.

Let us know if you try it. I'm sick of buying new Symantec products because they say I have to.

 

[johnlog]

I also have Office 2000 installed in XP and it all works perfectly.

Even Morraff's Morejjong works in XP perfectly. (it is a game)

 

[GrumpyMan]

Use Norton 2002 on Win XP.

 

[Escalade]

<< You could still run Word version 4.0 if you wanted to. >>


I use edlin. Has worked in every MicroSoft OS I've ever used!

 

[johnlog]

Grumpy person,

I have Norton 2002 installed in my XP. The only thing that does not work correctly is DiskDoctor. Will only check every other partition. Know a fix for that? I am still using FAT32. May change to NTFS later. I open a DOS window and run CHKDISK. Works quite well.

 

[Bglad]

I did some research on Norton under 2K/XP. It seems that disk doctor won't work because it needs control of the disk/partition and can't get it away from the OS. So it just reboots and runs chkdsk. Thanks, I could have done that myself. Symantec suggests dual booting with Win98 to check your 2K/XP disks if you want to take advantage of the extended checks offered by disk doctor. Please, how many consumers other than geeky Anandtechers are going to go through all this. Then again, only we will catch the fact that disk doctor really isn't doing anything.

In fact, Norton disk defrag really uses the Windows defrag now as well although it does work through the Norton interface.

Combined with the fact that Norton Ghost is not fully compatible with NTFS, I think Symantec really hasn't done its homework on the new product and is pulling a fast one over consumers until they can get caught up. Norton used to make some very good products but Utilities and Ghost 2002 are definitely not among them if used in 2K or XP.

 

[johnlog]

Bglad,

<FONT size=1>"Combined with the fact that Norton Ghost is not fully compatible with NTFS, I think Symantec really hasn't done its homework on the new product and is pulling a fast one over consumers until they can get caught up. Norton used to make some very good products but Utilities and Ghost 2002 are definitely not among them if used in 2K or XP. "


Dump Norton Ghost and buy PowerQuest's DriveCopy 4.0. It boots up to DOS with DR DOS from two floppy disks and will backup your hard drive to another hard drive as simply as it can be. I have two identical hard drives in racks. Once you start the backup with DriveCopy it does it all by itself. Even to copying every partition exactly to your backup drive. The only way to go.

I am not certain that DriveCopy 4 works with NTFS but a friend of mine claims it does. DriveCopy 3 does not do NTFS.


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[bacillus]

<< Norton Ghost is not fully compatible with NTFS >>


you need version 7 & above for XP!

 

[Bglad]

No bacillus, Ghost cannot restore an image to NTFS. Don't promote this misinformation. Run a search, there has been so much discussed about this already. Or check Symantec's site. I don't want to explain it again.

Johnlog, I already just conceded that I've gotten screwed by Symantec and bought DriveImage. I like it. I do exactly what you say except my backup drive is in a removeable rack. i don't want my backup in the machine all the time. I want it to be a completely safe backup so I can't use the auto feature but thats ok in exchange for the secure backup.

 

[johnlog]

<FONT size=1>Johnlog, I already just conceded that I've gotten screwed by Symantec and bought DriveImage. I like it. I do exactly what you say except my backup drive is in a removeable rack. i don't want my backup in the machine all the time. I want it to be a completely safe backup so I can't use the auto feature but thats ok in exchange for the secure backup. <

I also have my hard drives in racks. The kind you can take the drive out of and then plug back in again. Uses a key lock. You can either leave the drives in place or take the backed up drive to a secure location. With DriveCopy 4 I have an exact copy of my main hard drive.

I prefer a regular full HD backup.

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