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I have three Amateur Radio programs which will only run on a Window$ machine and are even problematic on Windows 7. They will not run under WINE for Linux either, which I use for a couple of other Window$ programs. Thus, I am looking for ideas on putting together a rig that will run one dedicated program which needs 2 COM ports and is set up for Windows 10 or 11. Maybe just buying a couple of small Dell refurbished boxes already loaded with Window$ 10/11 and then cleaning out the cruft?

Thanks in advance for advice!

I have three Amateur Radio programs which will only run on a Window$ machine and are even problematic on Windows 7. They will not run under WINE for Linux either, which I use for a couple of other Window$ programs. Thus, I am looking for ideas on putting together a rig that will run one dedicated program which needs 2 COM ports and is set up for Windows 10 or 11. Maybe just buying a couple of small Dell refurbished boxes already loaded with Window$ 10/11 and then cleaning out the cruft? Thanks in advance for advice!

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If you need dedicated hardware: Dell optiplex are plentiful and cheap. If you want remote access look into a pi-kvm. Or look for old low end tower servers which have remote access built in. Eg HP proliant ML10 v2 (I have one of these and use it as a hardware test bench). If you don't need dedicated hardware then just use a VM.

It's impossible to remove all the cruft from windows 10, so you should get LTSC version which has a lot less cruft by default. Buy a key off ebay/bitify/etc.

Finally if you don't need internet, put it on a static IP and block it from the internet in your router.

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Buy a key

What is this word, "buy"?