Thank you everyone! I tried to respond yesterday but my system was not cooperating at all.
my eye is doing well, and I am elated and impatient to have the other fixed.
I have some older computers I run windows 95 and 98 on to operate autocad and my plotters, well the motherboard battery went dead but I found a fix by soldering in a cr2032 button cell to the leads of the clock chip and now my system is up and running but I have to relearn how to set up my bios.
I am eager to play my old games again (red Baron) and such. these systems will never see the internet so I wont have any hassle from microsoft.