opening a old windows program on vista

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opening a old windows program on vista

Postby Jasta85 » Wed Jul 23, 2008 7:12 pm

i have some programs that only work on windows XP and lower OS's, they dont work on vista but i know there is a way to open them on vista by doing something with their properties, can anyone help me with exactly what to do or give me a link to directions? thanks
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Postby AaronAMV » Wed Jul 23, 2008 8:37 pm

Try right clicking and running as an administrator.
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Postby The Origonal Head Hunter » Wed Jul 23, 2008 9:08 pm

should be a way to switch Vista's compatibility mode to XP, though I don't know exactly how you'd go about it. Also the compatibility mode pretty much sucks, as I set it to XP one time and couldn't get APP2.0 to work at all.
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