Malc - no need to apologise! - I fully expected someone to say this - it was just something I had heard or read somewhere at the time and didn't want to take any risk. I'm really glad that this misconception has been scotched - at least for the benefit of others - I have XP, as I said, and will stick with it until I have to fork out for W7.
Angela - no need for you to be sorry either! I'm really glad to have the confirmation that GMax is OK in W7, with support for XP ending soon and the (possible) need for me to learn something new again! Rather W7 than Blender, I think. (Now I'll wait for the comments about Blender - but I've heard them all before, especially from someone I have known very well for many, many years ...)
Ray
Hi Ray,
I am having serious problems with this PC, a nightmare this morning. I tried that Malwarebytes as I already had it on the PC, updated it and then ran it. Everything was incredibly slow, I went and made a cuppa while it was starting then when I began a scan it ran for 15 seconds and locked up, not only that but the whole PC, had to use the Tower Case button to shut it down. Did that 4 times so I gave up on it....
Then the bloody PC refused to go online, claimed some vital file was missing in Windows... After a fight I got it back working again but I had to do my emails on my laptop...
I think it's time for a disc wipe and reinstall. Spent half of last night and into the early hours this morning transferring everything over to E:/ drive which is a completely seperate drive, not a partition. Got back into Explore as well earlier and checked all files needed were off or copied from C:/ so about ready now. God only knows if it will work when all is done... probably not is my guess.
Don't hold your collective breathes....
Angela