Originally Posted by hobo2000
Take your computer to a techie, he can run a dual system one with the current windows and another with your old windows version and load your old software on to that system. When the system come up it asks you which system to open with. I am operating with 3 systems because my Janome is so old I have to run Windows 98, my digitizing softWare is win2000 and my new software for my new Janome is windows 7. It all works fine now and only cost me $50.00 to have it set up that way.
This is great advise. My son is a computer genius and says that the fix above is doable. Often people are told "your computer has crashed", when it fact it is often fixable but companies find it easier and more profitable NOT to fix them, especially if they are selling you a new one.