legacy software

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...

my 16-bit clipper application software is installed on a dedicated win7-64 bit system-C drive. (CompA) the .exe file is TIMELOG.EXE (clipper 16 bit file). the folder name is TIME (since it is installed on a dedicated system, i do not need to run the software on CompA. CompA is networked to 8...

i am trying to create a XP mode in win7-ultimate-32 bit to run my legacy 16-bit programs. i have downloaded 4 files: file 1: WINDOWSXPMODE_EN-US.EXE (492,597,008) file 2: WINDOWS6.1-KB958559-X64-REFRESHPKG.MSU (17,091,624) file 3: WINDOWS6.1-KB958559-X64.MSU...

Hi, I have Windows 7 on 64-bit architecture and I want to install Turbo C + + LITE (this edition / version). I can't do this because i have 64-bit and I can't install it, so I'll use an emulator that needs the folder where it is installed Turbo C + + Lite. I appeal to you if you can take...

List of features removed in Windows Vista - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia List of features removed in Windows 7 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia List of features removed in Windows 8 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia And somehow, despite everything removed, it still takes up to 5x more...

Oops, I entered this in the wrong place - I'm now starting a new thread for it. Maybe you guys can help with this... I've been editing a video using Sony Vegas. It's new for me, and I'm learning as I go. Yesterday, I wanted to create some Star Wars type titles, and remembered that...

Hello, I have an Edimax EW-7711UAn (Ralink RT2870) usb wifi adapter. Both Edimax and Ralink provide ancient drivers and utility software for this product which can only be installed on Windows 7 x64 if you run the setup in XP Service Pack 2 compatibility mode. (well known issue, even though...

Hello, Running W7, the 64 bit version. Installed a new HD on my three yr. old HP Desktop Pavillion as old one conked out. Used the 3 HP System Restore Disks I made when I first got the PC. All fine after re-install, except that one program will not run now. Messages kept coming up that a...