legacy support

I upgraded wife's Netbook to Windows 8, verdict don't upgrade a Laptop with screen resolution of 1024 x 600 or less, the New Apps style interface will not work. Disappointed as the lay out and speed and ease of use is quite good, a little different from XP and Win 7 but usable. Basically they...

I have just upgraded to Win 7, 64 bit, and am trying to get an old Mahjong game working that my wife loves. It is from 1992 and it ran fine in Windows XP. I have tried right clicking the .exe file and selecting older versions of Windows to run in to no avail. Any suggestions would be...

I installed Windows 8 x64 just yesterday and I must say I was amazed with its performance! It worked great with my old setup, an old Intel Core2Duo 2.13 GHz and 4 GB DDR2 memory. My previous OS was Windows XP but I decided to try Windows 8 since I had a free license as a student and my old...

I own a dell demension 4600 also i have upgraded the ram to 4 gigs, the cpu to 3.02, a nvidia geForce 6200 agp graphics card, i know i will be needing a sound card, what would you recommend. What i am looking to do is install windows 7 home premium. I seem to have all of the necessary...

Hey everyone, Background info: My company uses blank CCID cards that store a name and number on them and we use them with our handset devices so clients and customers can vote and interact with our software. We have been using windows xp to read and burn our smart card's internally and...

USB overcurrent notifications no longer appear in Windows Server 2008 (or Vista) and later. Notifications do appear in Windows Server 2003. Link Removed

Hello again, I finally imported my .dbx files into Windows Live Mail successfully and can open the old emails in the new program, however, I cannot open the email. In this case its a document in .pdf format. When I double click it Windows 7 says I have no file associated with it and asks me to...

Last week Microsoft officially announced the next version of its operating system, currently codenamed Windows 8. We took a look at many of the features here . The announcement has generated a lot of buzz, but also a lot of uncertainty. How will support for legacy applications be handled? Should...

Windows 8 will come in two major varieties: a "traditional" version with legacy application support, and an ARM version that will not support legacy applications. The Windows 8 traditional version will have a "Windows 7" mode for backwards compatibility. The news comes from Intel's Investor...

"Microsoft's Windows App Store screenshots appear to have leaked for the first time on Monday. The screenshots show Microsoft's new application store for Windows. The store appears to be running in Windows 7, hinting that the software giant may also be planning to offer its app store for legacy...

Video Card full screen cashes after update. First to start with. If this is the wrong section please redirect my post. Okay 2 My name Is Victor to know you a little better. The problem is that When i finished installing Windows 7 , my audio drivers were missing. Before I used to have XP so I...

Will Windows 7 Read & Write a Single Sided Double Density 3.5" Floppy?

my problem is similar to the one here Link Removed using win 7 home premium using a wireless keyboard and mouse kit (one dongle for both devices) at first the mouse would only work in a specific usb port (when i change it to another usb port, windows would recognize the kit and say...

Just got a new laptop (well second hand) and it is supposed to be ACPI compliant. I cant install windows7 as it says it isn't ACPI compliant on the bios, i cant find anything in the Bios to enable it. It comes up with saying the Bios is not ACPI compatable, i have tried looking in the bios...

I have and old WinFast A250 and there are no supported drivers for it on win7, on vista I could just go update the drivers manually from the device manager and use the old ones, but on win7 it says: "The best driver software for your device is already installed" It's the "Standard VGA...

I have a Garmin GPS connected to a USB port. In XP I was able to see the USB ports under PORTS in the device manager and figure out which port it was connected to. I cannot see that in W7, I can't figure out which com port the usb port represents and my mapping software only sees COM1 (a...

I've had Windows 95, 98, 2000, ME, XP, Vista (32 & later 64bit) and now just installed Windows 7 (64bit). I've also tried Macs, which are overpiced trash. So far, 7 seems to start up and load various items a bit faster than Vista and I also think the transparent or "glass" visual feature looks...

Hi, I'm doing some work trying to convert older .hlp files to be compatible with Windows 7. What format are Windows 7 help files in and how can I convert .hlp files to it? They still need to interact with the software as well. Any help is much appreciated, Thanks! J

Is there any way to create comm ports in windows 7? I have a PCI card that requires a communications port. I don't see anything in hardware device that has com ports.... Hope this is the appropriate place for this thread. :(

I have installed Windows 7 Home Premium (64Bit) as a clean install. Everything works but my Logitech wingman formula force driving wheel. I have previously used this with Windows 95/98/XP and Vista. It is automatically detected when plugged into a USB port and installed without extra software. I...