legacy software

I am having problems installing a copy of Signlab ES2 on a new Sony laptop I have recently bought with Windows 7 x64. At the end of the installation I get the error message “The program can’t start because ntvdm.exe is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem”...

My computer keeps crashing when it attempts to wake up from sleeping. It never crashes when it is running normally and I am working on it. It has a wireless card for my inet, and any time I wake it up the bars down in the lower right show no signal and it has the round wheel spinning like it is...

hello, i have a piece of pretty old software, and when i put it in, the error i get says that the software is 16bit and cannot be installed on any 64 bit windows (i tried it on another machine vista 64 also didnt work). i know that after a program is installed you can have it run simulation on...

I have just noticed that when my system downloads updates it is also downloading updates for Office 2003. Now I was running 2003 then the Beta 2007 and now 2010. I did the normal Windows uninstall each time I changed over but I think I may have bits left over that is prompting my system to...

I am thinking about buying Win7 but want to clarify the feature "XP Mode". As you know Win7 Home contains in contrast to Windows 7 Pro no "XP mode". So I wonder what exactly this "XP mode" is. If I take Win7 Home then install VirtualPC and install WinXP inside as a guestOS VM. Is this the...

Hi all, I have an ancient copy of Foxpro for Windows 2.6 from the early 1990s that I've moved from PC to PC over the years. I don't reinstall from original disks; I just copy the program's directory into \program files\ and it's worked fine on systems up to and including XP3. I did need to...

I wish to obtain a copy of Windows 98SE so I can play my older games that don't work on Windows 7. Most notably Jane's Combat Simulations USAF. Microsoft is no longer allowed to distribute Windows 98 because of some deal they made with Sun Microsystems (apparently you can get OSes like MS-DOS...

Windows XP: No IE9 for you Windows XP: No IE9 for you Microsoft becomes first major browser maker to drop support for world's most popular OS Computerworld - Microsoft's new browser, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), will not run on Link Removed XP, now or when the software eventually ships, the...

Greeting to the ppl at W7F. I going to jump right into this. If my question seems trivial I sincerely apologize. I have attempted to install 4 or 5 different files over the past few weeks and I get this same message every time. "The version of this file is not compatible with the version of...

This program seems to have arrived with my win 7 Ultimate. Everytime I try to use my (very old MS Office) Office Enterprise tries to install itself. I'm not keen on a newer version, but I'd be prepared to let it install. Only....the install fails, saying it is missing EnterpriseWW.msi. I...

I own Dutch home edition windows 7 on my new laptop. There is no speech recognition module that came with the software. Is it possible to use the English version SAPI 5.1 with windows 7? (installing with compatibility mode XP) I use software that only uses English speech recognition, and works...

I am running W7 with and old Eudora 7 program. I am having trouble sending muliple addresses on email. If I am in the address book and want to select a random group of addresses if I hold down the contol key i am only able to choose two addresses. The third address deletes to first one I...

Hi, 6-7 years ago a friend of mine made for me a software with Visual Basic. It is a very light software that I use for archiving my many reviews. I have just installed that software on Windows 7 but I have .dll problems. Before instaling that software I have noticed in the software source...

Got a W7 home premium machine today. I know that Access 97 is not compatible in this configuration. If I upgrade to W7 Professional which will make me eligible to download the XP virtual machine, will that allow me to install and run Access 97? I can't seem to find a list of software that is...

Hi, I am about to buy my mum a new computer, however she uses only word 2002 from the xp office on an xp home computer. She does not want to learn anything new, like vista, or word 2007 etc. I was looking at dell giving the option to have xp installed. However, here are my...

This is a little off topic. I've got a program I've had for about 9 years the maker is long gone and I don't find anything this simple to use and would like to fix an annoying problem. It's a log program for my bicycle riding and there is about 10 years worth of data. The program uses a 16 bit...

Link Removed - Invalid URL Upgrading to the resource hog that was Windows Vista meant that home and business users alike also required a hardware upgrade. The fact that Vista required quite expensive new hardware in order to run at a level of performance equivalent to Windows XP’s...

i just want to ask if there is really no games pre-installed in windows 7. because when i installed it on my laptop, the games folder is empty. just asking for the free games usually included in old windows os like freecell, minesweeper, spider, and other games.:confused:

I am a noob regarding OS and I have heard that MS has stop updating XP. Is this true? Does MS going to kill XP?

Hi guys, Hope someone could be so kind and help me out! I am attempting transferring a FULL SYSTEM BACKUP (all programme files and any data on the C-drive) from my old Windows XP HOME PC to a new WINDOWS 7 PC and was wondering if this will work and what problems I might encounter? It's just...