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Finally I got my Dell Laptop with my Window 7 loaded in it. And I'm desperate to know the list of some of the best software for windows 7. So please suggest softwares which you personally use on your windows 7 and help you in any condition. Software can be : I need best of the best whether...

Hello, I have an old DOS cookbook program which contains all my old recipes from many years. I have it installed on my Windows 7 32-bit system and would like to put it on my laptop for use on the road. Laptop is Windows 7 64-bit and I get a message that it is not compatible. Is there a...

I am very new to Windows 8. I only downloaded and installed the developers preview 3 days ago on Thursday. Many Windows users are talking about the new Windows 8 and are trying it out. So my curiosity got the better of me and I installed Windows 8. I did this by mounting the ISO file on virtual...

Link RemovedLink RemovedLink RemovedSee images above and as you can see Widows 8 is installed on the X drive that used to be my C drive. And the Windows 8 E drive partition I created is empty. So my Windows 8 install has wiped out my Windows 7 and replaced it with Windows 8. And it has also...

I just had my emachine blow up and had to replace it with a new HP Pavillion. I (involuntarily) went from the XP operating system to Windows 7. Now, I have software I can't run and some of it was very useful and not replaceable like my audio processing software Cakewalk Pyro. I have the disks...

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I ran an upgrade with win home 7. I am the administrator. When I try to delete old programs, I get a message that reads require permission from Admin or trusted installer. How do I delete these programs. I put my password as an administrator when I logged in. Thanks

Although enterprises are in the midst of migrating more machines to Microsoft's Windows 7, the aged Windows XP still accounts for nearly 6-in-10 PCs in corporations, according to a recent report by research firm Forrester. read more Link Removed

From good old WinXP I have a couple of screensavers which are packed into a *.scr file. Do they still work under (64bit) Win7? Where (in which folder) should I copy them? Peter

Currently using money98 on my XP PC,, but my new win7 laptop is giving me some issues that I cannot seem to resolve.. Hopefully there my be a smart fellow on the forums here that may help me.. I have backed up on my HD ( windows XP ) the past 11 years of .mny files (each) with the name i.e...

What to do if your software is too old QUESTION I'm still using Quicken for my home inventory. Unfortunately, a necessary refresh of Windows 7 has left me with problems reinstalling Quicken. I get the error message: ‘The program cannot load because MFC70.DLL is missing from your computer'. I'm a...

QI recently bought a new PC running Windows 7. My older applications work just fine but Paint Shop Pro 6 simply refuses to work. It displays a message saying that it ‘Failed to update the system Registry’ and suggests I need to use something called Regedit. What is this and what should I do...

i installed an old partition program called partiton magic 8 without knowing the specs anyhow i installed the program when i tried run it it sjowed an error.I thought of changing the compatibility settings i set it to xp mode and then tried to run it again some error came but after a while i had...

I'm having a problem trying to install an old pgm (Web Edit Pro 2.0) to Win7 / Ultimate. Pgm. worked fine under XP. Did a clean install for Win7 to a new HD and can't install Web Edit Pro. Here's what I've done: Pgm is on a .zip file (can't extract/install to HD "Incompatible w/ this ver. of...

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...

Link Removed - Invalid URL Microsoft has released an update to the backward compatibility feature in Windows 7 and in Windows Server 2008 R2 that increases the compatibility of programs in specific scenarios. We all know that the backward compatibility feature can set the dynamic context of...

I just installed it on a machine for the hell of it. Problem is the computer is a HP Pavilion a343v and it came with XP so I can't find any drivers on the HP site that are compatible with it. The resolution is super big so is there a stand VGA driver I can get? Also does anyone know of a good...

One of the things you may discover is that not all of your older programs/games/drivers will work under 7, and their 7 compliant versions may not be availabe. In this case, you can try install and run them in Vista (or XP) compatible mode. To run a file in compatibility mode: 1. Right click...

I have a conputer with windows 7, 64 bit. I have an old program (network magic) that came over with my upgrade from vista. It is not compatible with windows 7 but when I try to delete it I get the message that the program is being used by another program and cannot be deleted. In my old xp...

I have installed Windows 7-64 and it is running fine. Some of my very old programs will not work in Win 7. Can I install Win XP on another drive in the system and use it for older software? Do I need to do a special format of the other drive, like maybe Fat-32 only or install an even older ver...