Making a copy of Solitaire...

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Yes, by purchasing an upgrade version of Windows Vista
and upgrading your wife's Windows XP PC to Windows Vista.

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My wife loves playing the version of Solitaire on my Vista Home Premium
machine. Is there a way I can locate and copy it to a disk to load onto her
WinXP computer?

Thanks.

silas

 

[Dave]

You can try it, but I doubt that it will run. The files are located in
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games

The XP games will run on Vista, at least the few that I have tried.

 

[silas]

My wife loves playing the version of Solitaire on my Vista Home Premium
machine. Is there a way I can locate and copy it to a disk to load onto her
WinXP computer?

Thanks.

silas

 

[Lang Murphy]

My wife loves playing the version of Solitaire on my Vista Home Premium
machine. Is there a way I can locate and copy it to a disk to load onto
her WinXP computer?

Thanks.

silas

Probably not...

Vista Solitaire is located in c:\program files\microsoft games\solitaire,
where c: is the drive on which your program files directory exists.

Lang

 

[Andrew McLaren]

My wife loves playing the version of Solitaire on my Vista Home Premium
machine. Is there a way I can locate and copy it to a disk to load onto
her WinXP computer?

Hi Silas

Vista Solitaire cannot run on XP.

Soliaire.exe has dependencies on several operating system DLLs, which just
don't exist on XP: SLC.DLL (the Software Licensing DLL), DWMAPI.DLL (the
Desktop Window Manager in Vista) and XINPUT9_1_0.DLL (the XNA Controller -
"XNA" is Microsoft's new Gaming API, based around XBox and Vista). In turn,
these depend on entry points which don't exist in XP DLLs; so, it's not
simply a matter of copying these 3 DLLs across as well.

As other replies commented, there are licencing issues which probably
prevent you from doing it legally. But even if you ignore the legal aspect,
from a basic technical angle, Vista's Solitaire.exe simply cannot run on XP.

Sorry for the bad news. If you're feeling brave you could upgrade your wife
to Vista (personally, I've left my wife running XP on her PC ... my support
obligations are already way too high).

 

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C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Solitaire\Solitaire.exe

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[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Silas;
Search Google.
There are probably many types of Solitaire available for free and
hopefully one will suit your wife's needs.

 

[silas]

Dave, you're right. I tried copying it onto her machine. Didn't work. Thanks
anyway.

Carey, I've been once or twice accused of extravagance but I'd surely be
guilty of foolishness if I were to waste the money and time needed to
upgrade to Vista just so my wife can play a different version Solitaire.
Even she would frown on that.

silas