and install software from scratch.
- I don't think you have quite understood the question. I have no intention of using XP after 6 April (unless extended), am happily running W7, but I have several little progs collected over the years without install files any more, and would like to continue to use them. I do not understand enough about the 'install' process, and yes, my 'external drive' as it will become has these progs 'installed' on it - in the registry? Thus I do not comprehend "
You will of course break your software at the same time as Windows". Your statement "
Of course not. Everything that function needs is built into Windows 7/8." appears totally contradictory.
I have assumed that the XP based progs require dll's and the like to run. If I delete the XP OS, they go too, do they not, so the question is what can I do?