Thanks, goodplay. Yeah, all that works, no doubt. Thing is, I'm old, my living space is cramped and lacks work space, the lighting's not particularly good and my eyesight's worse, and I didn't build the new PC and am not familiar with the innards.
I'll be giving my old pc to my g'daughter, so conversion is just a typical move-to-a-new-machine project like I've done numerous time, but with a few added wrinkles and still basically a pita anyhow. But hey, spiffy new pc!
But now that I think about it, I can just move the hard drive from the old to the new PC, then boot up the new and stay on it until it's as I'd like (copy my data over, install/authorize software), then switch the hard drive back and boot up the old to get it as I'd like (remove my data, deinstall proprietary software) before handing it over to g'daughter, then boot back up on the new. That seems to be the critical path, would you agree? If I need to change graphics cards to handle a newer monitor I can take care of that later, though I was hoping find out what I have in order to take advantage of current sales on monitors.
Thanks for you help!
H2O
(it's an old "Pogo" gag: Rogy Batoon, front man for a group of singing fishes [a stellar set of squamose songsters called The Louisanna Perches] comes wandering into the comic strip carrying a satchel with a big H2O monagrammed on the side. Later events reveal that the satchel is filled with water containing his good friend, an amoeba named Halpha 2 Omeba.)
