Hello George, it is cold here ! 

 GL> Dan, if you have BW v. 2.30 on your laptop, then BW v. 2.30
 GL> must work with XP Home & XP pro, right?.

        George, I use BW in two desktops and in my Thinkpad, all
  running XP Pro and I just hit an icon for BW that is a path to Blue
  Wave.exe and the systems do their thing and present me with the BW
  screen in a DOS-like screen. I do not do anything special, I just
  let XP do it all. I use BW 2.3 DOS.


 Here it is cold, but the fireplace is roaring.
  
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