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I've tried a few different things and i can't run it. does somebody know how if so help me,please?

I have been want to play an old racing game for some time now (Driver By GT Interactive) but it wont load. It was deigned for Windows 98 and 95 and i am running 8.1. I manually found the install file and installed it along with Direct X 6 and Direct X Media. I set the compatibility mode and...

Hi I recently bought a Brother MFC L2700DW printer & my main computer is a desktop & is running XP Sp3 and two laptops are running Win7. The two laptops can print & scan wirelessly from the MFC but the XP machine whilst it can print from the MFC it cannot scan and I get the error message that...

Hey, so recently I wanted to play some older games that did not work on any windows 7+ so I wanted to install windows vista as a multiboot system, now I saw that there was this warning: Warning You must install the older operating system first, and then install the more recent operating...

I was surprised to see that my legal copy of Paint Shop Pro 7 actually works just fine, even in Windows 10....!

Is it possible? I have Outlook 2013 but Word 2013 is so packed with things I don't need, such as collaboration tools, layout, document design, that it's a nightmare to use. Honestly, for me, Microsoft Word reached it's zenith with 2003, Word XP, and has gone wonky since then. Suggestions?

As you know when you run a 16 bit program such as Windows 3.1 games on Windows Vista,7 or 8, it does not display the icon. This is because support for 16 bit icon display has been removed from Windows Vista onwards. So you have to choose one of the icons in the "Shell32.dill" folder. But there...

I had been having blue screen problems with my old Dell XP. The programs WhoCrashed and BlueScreenView implicated a few drivers of non-essential software as the culprits. I examined the drivers module in AutoRuns (by Sysinternals) and carefully selected non-essential software drivers for...

Hi, I'm a computer noob. I have a 12 year old retail-purchased PC that came with WinXP Home pre-installed on the 160GB hard drive. The original OEM hard drive squeals terribly loud and sounds like it's going to die. I'd like to replace it, but not sure how to get WinXP installed on a fresh hard...

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Acer Aspire 7741z Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit IE10. Windows ( Live ) Essentials installed and up to date. I am unable to run the current Windows ( Live ) Movie Maker. I have to install and use Windows Movie maker 6.0 version instead. The problem started long ago. Once I reinstalled Win 7...

Is it possible to switch off all windows updates temporarily, and work offline. I have a CD-ROM, that successive windows updates have rendered inoperative. I can run this disk on an old machine, but it will not run on my main machine. I could go through the many updates, and with great...

I have an application CD with .exe and set up files made in the 1990's for Window 3.1 and above window 7/window 8 would not run the application file 1- How could we run this program under window 7 /window 8 platform?

Can you run Office 2003 on Windows 7? I understand that you can't run it on Windows 8. I particularly like the original GUI used in Office up to the 2003 version.

Hi, I try to run old application with 16 bit on my windows 8.1 32bit. I read that there is option in control panel to enable 16 bit, and found that icon, but when I press the icon I get this message in the picture. what should I do? Thanks!!

I just bought a new computer with W8 installed. This is a big step from XP that I've been running for quite a while. I had two drives (both 500Gb) in the old box, and I'd like to use them in the new. When I try the old drive with boot tracks as an internal - the new box has three spaces for...

I'm an artist and Microsoft Paint for windows vista is my favourite program to use. I recently got a windows 8.1 and I hate how the new Microsoft Paint is! I went back on my vista and got out mspaint.exe from system32 and put it on my 8.1, but when I try to open the program I recieve an error...

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my dos application is installed in the c: of a xp server. my client is a win7-64 running virtual pc xp mode. can i map the c: of the xp server to the win7-64 virtual pc xp mode client. i.e. i want the full c: of the server to be mapped as z: in the win7-64 virtual pc xp mode. (to map, should i...

Folks, I've joined this forum for a couple reasons. Foremost is that I don't believe that Microsoft is interested in anything I have to say. Secondly, I'm using Windows 7 at my office and on my main personal computer and, after getting a new laptop with Windows 8, I realize that I have to...