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Originally Posted by heero_yuy

But I need a system that still runs XP SP3. This is a legacy requirement on some client software ( 16 and 32 bit for which no upgrades are available ) so I have to keep the old girl running. Plus it has all my video processing and DVD authoring programs

The lappy runs W7 Pro ( Classic shell XP look alike) for anything later.

Pretty sure hyper v or similar virtualisation products will allow you to run 16 bit and certainly 32 bit