Is it possible to load windows 6.1 in windows xp home and make it work?

Question

I have a program I wrote in dos years ago and I woulf like to improve on it now, can this be done in windows xp?

Answer 1

I'm afraid I don't understand your question.

I'm assuming you mean DOS rather than Windows. There is no windows 6.1. It doesn't exist yet. Loading that on Windows XP home, therefore, isn't possible. When it does exist (as the first alteration of Windows Vista, I suppose) it'll replace Windows XP rather than run under it.

DOS is a seperate entity, but the command line aspect of DOS is available under XP. Go to the start menu, choose run, and type in "CMD." This brings up the command shell and you should be able to run your command-line program from there. Hit ALT-Enter and you can even pretend you're back in the glory days of the C:> prompt. Or, alternatively, simply double-click on your DOS program from the Windows XP shell and it'll open up a command-line window and run as you remember.

Improving on it, however, is a different issue. You'll need a compiler or interpreter for whatever language it was designed for. If it's the version of basic that came with DOS, you might need to try to run that off an old DOS installation. Might be tricky. If that's what you need, e-mail me or post another question and I (or whoever answers) will see what I can do.

I hope this answers your question