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Re: steam now downloading games from the beginning in both windows 7 and windows 10

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From: PW
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 22:15
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On Fri, 17 Feb 2017 18:30:12 +0000 (UTC), rri...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca
(Ross Ridge) wrote:

>PW  <emailad...@ifIremember.com> wrote:
>>Our software does and also on Amazon Web Services :-)
>>
>>I have to support our clients.  I do not think I have any games that
>>work in Win7 but not Win10 but I guess I will eventually find out!  I
>>thought Windows 10 was essentially Windows 7.
>
>You might want to look at running Windows in a VM (virtual machine)
>instead of dual booting.  You'd want to run the version of Windows you
>want to play games on as the host operating system, and the other version
>as the guest operating system.  This means you can test things on both
>operating systems much quicker because you don't need to reboot.
>
>					Ross Ridge

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Thanks Ross. I need to find about that.

-pw
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