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Default Re: Windows 7 and Office 2010

If you have Linux and a virtual machine system, plus an XP installation CD then:

1) Make a VM using the XP installer CD and update it fully.
2) Then make sure the XP image has no ability to see the internet any more. Thus any "internet weakness" is removed as it will be air-gapped.
3) Install anything that needs XP in that image (like these games!)
4) Run the XP Virtual machine whenever you need to play

I already have an XP virtual machine set up for Windows 10, in order to run the Delphi environment to make Mobhack with. The Borland C++ compiler works in 10, but Microsoft screwed up the online help system in windows 8 and beyond, so I probably will shift the games development environment over to the XP system for C++ Builder as well. It's much more convenient using old-style help within the IDE than googling it on Firefox..
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