It all worked very well for me, thank you. How nice it is to have full "play" for all my legacy DOS
applications, some written by me, which Vista would not allow.
The chief function which Vsta would not allow is the use of "Full Screen Mode" by some of my legacy
DOS programs. WIN-XP allows it. Thanks, friend, for your details on how to implement XP on the
Dell Inspiron 1525.
I bought a new 250 GB drive from NewEgg, here in the States (same drive supplied with the Dell
machine when I bought it), and installed WIN XP on it, from a distro disk of XP from a Dell desktop
machine I bought about 8 years ago. Of course, I had to immediately "patch" this OS with Service
Pack 1, and Service Pack 3, available on the Web, before I could make good use of it.
All your drive links are 100% perfectly cast; thank you again.
I found, BTW, that the touchpad driver for XP was pretty "dicey", and when I typed on the keyboard,
sometimes a random touch of the touchpad would cause the typing to go off several lines before; this
was too exasperating, so I found that installing the Vista driver for the touchpad fixed this perfectly.
A thousand thank-you's.
--Joe / Tucson, Arizona / USA