How to Run an Older Program in Windows XP and Vista. Originally, this page was written for Windows XP alone but Windows Vista. That is described below. Windows XP Many older computer programs may not run correctly if you just click on the program's executable file in Windows XP; this is particularly true of older game programs. There can be many reasons why. Perhaps the program uses DOS calls that XP does not know about. Perhaps there are graphic hardware considerations. I've been trying to run some dos commands to run NTBackup using start-process and. If an older program refuses to run under Windows 8, you still have hope because of Windows’ secret Compatibility mode. You are here: Help > MS-DOS. Microsoft DOS runas command. About runas Availability Runas syntax Runas examples. Enables a user to execute a program on.
Perhaps.. who knows. Indeed, some older DOS- based programs, in order to speed up the display, wrote. These, Windows XP will not allow to run. In order to run these you will have to find a computer with an older. For those in between, there is some hope in using Windows XP's Compatibility Mode. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to where the program is located. Then.. Right click on the program file (the . EXE or . COM file). Select Properties from the menu that pops up. Select the Compatibility Tab in the dialog. Change the options so the program opens in Windows 9. Note the other options in the dialog as you may have to experiment a bit and change some of them as well. Basically, this action creates a PIF file that Windows uses to determine options to use to run the program in compatibility mode instead of native Windows 3. Hopefully, this will allow the program to run. Windows Vista. Windows Vista uses a similar technique for running older. Open an Explorer window and navigate to the . EXE file for the program. Note the other options in the dialog as you may have to experiment. If this doesn't work, then try checking the . This defeats the security in Windows Vista. If you are concerned with running older DOS programs you may need an emulator. They may or may. not work in Windows Vista. DOSBox. There is another developing option for running older DOS programs under newer Windows operating systems: the DOSBox project. DOSBox emulates an Intel x. PC. It is a developing option because the project is still refining the code. But, you can find it at its Sourceforge home.. This OS can be downloaded as an ISO file that can be burned to a CD and used as a boot disc so the computer is then running DOS. While you will likely not be able to correctly access your hard disk if it's an NTFS formatted disk this is another option for running older software on a new computer. You can find it at its Sourceforge home.. If these suggestions don't work for you, you are back to finding a computer.
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