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if you have emulator program, can yo use Windows that's already on a Windows machine?
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Most of the emulation programs do NOT come with a copy of Windows. We have a PC, running Windows XP. If I got one of these programs, would I be able to install that copy of Windows on it? Or would it phone home, so to speak, and shut down? Has anyone done this?
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XP would phone home, because of Product Activation. The earlier versions of Windows, however, do not.
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An alternative method of running PC programs on you Mac, if you have a PC too, would be to run remote desktop and control your PC from your Mac. This is what I did when I still had a working PC and needed to run a few PC programs.
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I remember reading about this earlier. I believe you need XP Professional, and we, of course, just have the "home" version.
But that would certainly have been the ideal situation!
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You could just VNC, that's free and works well.
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It is not 'legal' to, but there is nothing to stop you. If it asks to activate again and it doesn't work then you can just call MS up and tell them that you just reinstalled XP and now it isn't letting you activate...
Of course, I use VNC on my XP home computers and RDC on my XP pro ones
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Originally posted by johnpop:
It is not 'legal' to, but there is nothing to stop you.
Actually, that depends. It can be legal, if the old PC is destroyed or XP is permanently removed from it. However, it doesn't look like this is the intent of the original poster.
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You're right -- this would be to run XP on two separate machines. However, it does occur to me that we should have Windows 2000 around here someplace, and that machine IS destroyed. (Because it went belly up -- something that, knock on wood, has never happened to one of my Macs!)
To the VNC user -- I checked that out, but I'm not really clear how that works.
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Originally posted by bbales:
You're right -- this would be to run XP on two separate machines. However, it does occur to me that we should have Windows 2000 around here someplace, and that machine IS destroyed. (Because it went belly up -- something that, knock on wood, has never happened to one of my Macs!)
To the VNC user -- I checked that out, but I'm not really clear how that works.
You download VNC server and client software like RealVNC and install it on your PC and Mac. There are probably hundreds of companies and even individuals that have their own VNC software, a lot of them work with each other since VNC is actually a standard protocal. If you have Apple Remote Desktop 2 (not version 1) you can control a PC that has a VNC server installed. I think Windows XP Professional has a VNC server of some sorts already, but I don't know about Home edition.
After you set it up, you'll basically have a Window on either the Mac or the PC that has the other computer's desktop. You can then manipulate it as if you were actually there.
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Originally posted by olePigeon:
You download VNC server and client software like RealVNC and install it on your PC and Mac. There are probably hundreds of companies and even individuals that have their own VNC software, a lot of them work with each other since VNC is actually a standard protocal. If you have Apple Remote Desktop 2 (not version 1) you can control a PC that has a VNC server installed. I think Windows XP Professional has a VNC server of some sorts already, but I don't know about Home edition.
After you set it up, you'll basically have a Window on either the Mac or the PC that has the other computer's desktop. You can then manipulate it as if you were actually there.
I perfer Ultra VNC for the Windows server side and Chicken of the VNC for OS X client. It is as simple as installing the server and entering a password and then going to the client and typing in the IP address of the computer you want. I assume you have a LAN setup??
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Yes, it's a LAN setup. This is interesting -- many of the reports on the emulator software have given me pause -- it sounds like many don't work all that well and really are a hog when it comes to system resources.
It turns out we DO have XP professional. SO now I'm researching various options.
Thanks for the info.
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