In article , PeterN says...
In the
interest of fairness, may main machine is Win 7.

I'm using 8.1 here. It has a horrible reputation, but with the classic
shell it works perfectly smoothly without any problems.

Before I was using Vista, another of those supposedly terrible OSs.
Worked fine for me as well. I skipped Win 7.
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