[tomsem]

Yes, my Windows box is probably 12 years old, cost $2400 back then (I won it in a drawing, it was DOA on arrival but covered under HP warranty and they fixed it). I think it is less than 10 minutes now, I finally had a chance to uninstall a bunch of stuff and free up more hard drive space (had huge photo library etc on there). And some of the slowness is that it starts to download updates as soon as it boots up because I don’t turn it on very often. Still it, can edit HD video once it gets going (not that I need it to do that any more).

I was going to migrate it to a VM on my Mac but Parallels failed to do it. It also failed to do another PC I had. And then they want $30 a year or something like that or it will stop working. So I am giving up on Parallels. I used Fusion previously and that Just Worked. But that’s $200 and then you pay for updates. The windows Professional license should transfer over to a VM, and I have windows running in VirtualBox but am not ready to switch over or pay MS $130 so I can run both.