One crucial part of my role as my family's de facto IT support was making sure my mom's FreeCell score record (which was just a Windows registry value) made it from each computer to the next across countless upgrades. She hated the new version that came out somewhere along the way because the card decks changed. (Windows 7? Windows 10? I switched to Linux full time in the XP era so my memory is a little fuzzy.) So I made sure to keep a backup of the Win32 version she was used to, and loaded it onto every machine she ever owned. It wasn't quite the 33 years of its lifetime, but probably close to 30.
Mom passed earlier this year, so the FreeCell score record won't ever increment again, but I still made a point to back it up one last time when going through her desktop this summer.
Sorry for the loss, are you able to keep her high score saved too?
I wanted old school MS solitaire in windows 11 since the modern version has ads and extra useless features. I found that the Windows XP version works without hassle. Earlier versions aren't really different but I forget if I tried to run earlier versions. One quirk: however the winning animation is programmed, it takes almost 20 minutes to complete on a very wide monitor[1].
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I’m still installing the classic (Windows 7) calculator [0] on each new Windows setup.
My condolences. Such a nice way to honor her memory with one more backup.
I’m sorry for your loss. That is a wonderful story.
Thank you for sharing this. It was heartwarming to read!
She was right, the modern freecell sucks
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I'm so sorry for your loss, but now you have to tell us her high score!