Wordperfect 12 and Vista?

My wife is planning to get a new laptop an dump the old one.  She needs 
Wordperfect and QP installed.  We have Wordperfect 12 already.

Can WP12 work well under Vista?

Thanks 

Yes. See my post here: 
http://www.wpuniverse.com/vb/showthread.php?postid=168506#post168506

Barry

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David Banner wrote:
> My wife is planning to get a new laptop an dump the old one.  She needs 
> Wordperfect and QP installed.  We have Wordperfect 12 already.
> 
> Can WP12 work well under Vista?
> 
> Thanks 
> 
> 
> 

Thanks!!

Too bad  about your experience with Vista in general. I don't like 
Vista, but all new s/w is now compatible with Vista.  I dunno, perhaps I 
can find XP drivers for my wife's laptop and I'll install XP.

FWIW. I did notice corruption occurs sometimes for no reason on my XP 
machine too.  As a rule of thumb, I *should* reformat and reinstall 
every year.  I suspect that Microsoft updates somehow may contribute to 
corruption.


"Barry MacDonnell" <Barry@SeeMyWebsiteToContactMe.net> wrote in
message 
news:47e7b958$1_2@cnews...
:
: Yes. See my post here:
: http://www.wpuniverse.com/vb/showthread.php?postid=168506#post168506

 > As a rule of thumb, I *should* reformat and reinstall
 > every year.

That's one way to keep your system clean and quick, but there is an 
easier and faster way. Get a disk imaging program (I use Acronis 
TrueImage, and have for several years - 
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/) and simply install it as the 
first thing to do with a new computer (TrueImage works with Vista, too). 
Then immediately make an image of your boot drive to a CD/DVD, or an 
external drive or partition. Then you can (1) backup your data and (2) 
roll the /entire/ system back to the day you did all that, and (3) 
restore your backed up data.

All this can be done in just a few minutes ... no need to reformat or 
reinstall anything, since the boot drive partition is deleted and then 
completely restored from the image whenever you want to go back to "Day 
One".

I also image my boot drive before installing /any/ new program, storing 
the sequential images on another drive. This has saved me countless 
hours when I found the program did not suit my needs or was otherwise 
undesirable. (I retain the original images along with the last few 
images, and periodically delete the rest to save space.)

Speaking of backups ... see also my web page about making automatic 
backups of saved files: http://wptoolbox.com/tips/AutoBAK.html. It can 
help you avoid losing work to file corruption. For file repair, see 
http://wptoolbox.com/tips/RepairDocs.html.

Barry

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Toolbox for WordPerfect -
tips, macros, and more at
http://wptoolbox.com
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David Banner wrote:
> Thanks!!
> 
> Too bad  about your experience with Vista in general. I don't like 
> Vista, but all new s/w is now compatible with Vista.  I dunno, perhaps I 
> can find XP drivers for my wife's laptop and I'll install XP.
> 
> FWIW. I did notice corruption occurs sometimes for no reason on my XP 
> machine too.  As a rule of thumb, I *should* reformat and reinstall 
> every year.  I suspect that Microsoft updates somehow may contribute to 
> corruption.
> 
> 
> "Barry MacDonnell" <Barry@SeeMyWebsiteToContactMe.net>
wrote in message 
> news:47e7b958$1_2@cnews...
> :
> : Yes. See my post here:
> : http://www.wpuniverse.com/vb/showthread.php?postid=168506#post168506
> 
> 
> 
> 

I have a Vista Home Premium laptop (Toshiba) ready to roll and will 
start loading my software including WP 12.
I had some mishaps happening when installing Vista, because somebody 
sold me an upgrade to Business which can't be installed on top of Home 
Premium. So I lost all my drivers etc. This to tell you that the Toshiba 
website has all the drivers available. You can also check if you can get 
XP disks for your Notebook.

Wim

David Banner wrote:
> Thanks!!
> 
> Too bad  about your experience with Vista in general. I don't like 
> Vista, but all new s/w is now compatible with Vista.  I dunno, perhaps I 
> can find XP drivers for my wife's laptop and I'll install XP.
> 
> FWIW. I did notice corruption occurs sometimes for no reason on my XP 
> machine too.  As a rule of thumb, I *should* reformat and reinstall 
> every year.  I suspect that Microsoft updates somehow may contribute to 
> corruption.
> 
> 
> "Barry MacDonnell" <Barry@SeeMyWebsiteToContactMe.net>
wrote in message 
> news:47e7b958$1_2@cnews...
> :
> : Yes. See my post here:
> : http://www.wpuniverse.com/vb/showthread.php?postid=168506#post168506
> 
> 
> 
>