Hello
I don’t really want to bore you with the details of my set-up. Please just accept that in order for me to control a PC with xp/vista, owing to a disability and speech defect, I need to use voice recognition software that was last developed for Windows 95! I’m currently using the voice software on a PC with Windows millennium. The Windows millennium PC is connected to my xp machine using some equipment from America, that let’s me control 1 PC from the other (I talk to the millennium PC and it stuffs the keystroke and mouse actions to the other PC). Sounds weird but I also hold down employment as a software engineer using the same set up, although this message relates to non employer equipment.
Anyway my enquiry. The rest of this message relates to my old millennium PC. It’s around 6 years old, in recent years I’ve had to replace the graphics card and the hard drive. Now the hard drive is about to go again (it’s intermittently clicking loudly). Yes the cheapest and simplest option is to replace the thought drive again.
However an alternative would be to purchase a new cheap PC and downgrade it to an operating system prior to xp. Now ignoring licensing issues, how practical is this? Main problem might be getting drivers. If feasible then I’d probably transfer my existing sound card-soundblaster live oem.
Any advice? Anyone tried this?
Thanks
I don’t really want to bore you with the details of my set-up. Please just accept that in order for me to control a PC with xp/vista, owing to a disability and speech defect, I need to use voice recognition software that was last developed for Windows 95! I’m currently using the voice software on a PC with Windows millennium. The Windows millennium PC is connected to my xp machine using some equipment from America, that let’s me control 1 PC from the other (I talk to the millennium PC and it stuffs the keystroke and mouse actions to the other PC). Sounds weird but I also hold down employment as a software engineer using the same set up, although this message relates to non employer equipment.
Anyway my enquiry. The rest of this message relates to my old millennium PC. It’s around 6 years old, in recent years I’ve had to replace the graphics card and the hard drive. Now the hard drive is about to go again (it’s intermittently clicking loudly). Yes the cheapest and simplest option is to replace the thought drive again.
However an alternative would be to purchase a new cheap PC and downgrade it to an operating system prior to xp. Now ignoring licensing issues, how practical is this? Main problem might be getting drivers. If feasible then I’d probably transfer my existing sound card-soundblaster live oem.
Any advice? Anyone tried this?
Thanks
