Very odd. Windows XP has been the standard, current version of Windows since 2001; stuff really ought to work with it by now. Except perhaps very old stuff.
I upgraded to XP in late 2001 and didn't record any serious problems, apart from some initial confusion about how to change from FAT32 to NTFS filing system (not actually difficult, but undocumented by Microsoft, in its usual endearing manner). But your hardware situation seems much more complicated than mine was then.
I did have to lose a flatbed and a film scanner that worked through the parallel port, which XP doesn't like; but I think I was aware of that in advance.
I expect you'll get it sorted out in the end. If you really get in a mess, it may be worth starting again and reinstalling from scratch.
Come to that, you could put Windows Me back again. But that would really be defeatism. XP is a better operating system and works pretty well for most people, considering that it's a Microsoft product.
I don't use Nero, I use Roxio, but Nero's Web page says it runs under XP -- and it would be astonishing if it didn't.
The Oxford English Dictionary I bought on CD in 1995 works under XP on my old computer but not under XP on my new computer -- bizarre. I bought an upgrade recently and that works on the new computer.
Some of the computer games that our four-year-old son plays are pretty old but most of them run under XP (though I had to give him administrator rights because old games mostly require them).
Re: Just when you think that it can't get worse
I upgraded to XP in late 2001 and didn't record any serious problems, apart from some initial confusion about how to change from FAT32 to NTFS filing system (not actually difficult, but undocumented by Microsoft, in its usual endearing manner). But your hardware situation seems much more complicated than mine was then.
I did have to lose a flatbed and a film scanner that worked through the parallel port, which XP doesn't like; but I think I was aware of that in advance.
I expect you'll get it sorted out in the end. If you really get in a mess, it may be worth starting again and reinstalling from scratch.
Come to that, you could put Windows Me back again. But that would really be defeatism. XP is a better operating system and works pretty well for most people, considering that it's a Microsoft product.
I don't use Nero, I use Roxio, but Nero's Web page says it runs under XP -- and it would be astonishing if it didn't.
The Oxford English Dictionary I bought on CD in 1995 works under XP on my old computer but not under XP on my new computer -- bizarre. I bought an upgrade recently and that works on the new computer.
Some of the computer games that our four-year-old son plays are pretty old but most of them run under XP (though I had to give him administrator rights because old games mostly require them).
-- Jonathan