Folio Views Win 95 / XP program compatibility

I have a very old but very important Win 95 program which ALMOST works under
XP (SP3). It is a highly searchable hypertext database held in Folio Views
3.01, a 1991-1993 era program.

The programs works under XP to a surprising extent - loads, runs, functions,
does most searches A-OK. It seems to do just as well with the Properties>Run
in compatibility mode > win 95 checked or unchecked - this doesn't seem
relevant.

The problem is if I do searches of the database which would return a very
large number of hits. Then the program reliably crashes with a general
protection fault. On Win 95 it never gave such faults - took all day to
return an answer, but, no GPFs.

It is expensive to upgrade Folio Views, and seems tantalizingly
un-necessary, as the GPF seems to be somehow compatibility-related. I can't
help hoping there might be some secret tweak which might cure things. To be
clear, I've tried what little there isunder Properties > compatibility and
doesn't help.

Any thoughts gratefully received!

Andrew_White wrote:

> I have a very old but very important Win 95 program which ALMOST works
> under XP (SP3). It is a highly searchable hypertext database held in Folio
> Views 3.01, a 1991-1993 era program.
>
> The programs works under XP to a surprising extent - loads, runs,
> functions, does most searches A-OK. It seems to do just as well with the
> Properties>Run in compatibility mode > win 95 checked or unchecked - this
> doesn't seem relevant.
>
> The problem is if I do searches of the database which would return a very
> large number of hits. Then the program reliably crashes with a general
> protection fault. On Win 95 it never gave such faults - took all day to
> return an answer, but, no GPFs.
>
> It is expensive to upgrade Folio Views, and seems tantalizingly
> un-necessary, as the GPF seems to be somehow compatibility-related. I
> can't help hoping there might be some secret tweak which might cure
> things. To be clear, I've tried what little there isunder Properties >
> compatibility and doesn't help.

Suggestions:

1. Upgrade Folio Views. Even though it is expensive, since this is an
important program for you this is the best solution since XP is now not the
current Microsoft Windows operating system. Presumably a current version of
Folio Views will also work in Vista if you should need to replace your
computer.

2. Run Windows 95 in a virtual machine, using either MS Virtual PC 2007 or
VMware Workstation (my preference). I've also heard that Sun's VirtualBox
is promising. You will need a licensed copy of Win95.

Malke
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