All Good Things Must End...

[hunter]

24. Here's how you might recreate your old computer on Windows 10 Pro using Microsoft Hyper-V:

Installing your old software on the virtual machine, starting with Windows 7, would take some time and require the old install disks and licences, but the advantage is you can run all your old software on the virtual machine with little risk to the new Windows 10 installation.

Emulators and other sorts of virtual machines are how I have so much old baggage on my desktop machine. By the time I get around to replacing a machine, the new machines are fast enough to emulate all my previous machines nearly flawlessly. I have my Atari 800 machines, my DR-DOS Geoworks machines, my Widows 3.1 machines, my Windows 98SE machines, all available from my desktop just one or two clicks away. I can play Pengo like it's 1983, or read stuff I wrote the 'seventies. (Damn, I was annoying then. Maybe I still am.)