DOS program...

[jen]

I have an old DOS accounting program, PetroWare. We have
clients who still use, so we have to use it also. It runs
on Windows 95&98 and Windows NT.
I just upgraded our computer up to Windows XP Professional
and it will not run. I have edited the autoexec.nt and
config.nt files. I have tried to run it in each
compatibility mode and I have had no luck.
It will run the start up screen and their it sits.
I would appreciate any help you can give me!
Thank you,
Jen

 

[Guest]

Hi,

Search for the word 'DOS in the Games forum. There are
lots of people asking similar questions.

Regards,

Tim

 

[Dave]

You might want to look at PetroWare2000 which is a
Windows version.

 

[NobodyMan]

I have an old DOS accounting program, PetroWare. We have
clients who still use, so we have to use it also. It runs
on Windows 95&98 and Windows NT.
I just upgraded our computer up to Windows XP Professional
and it will not run. I have edited the autoexec.nt and
config.nt files. I have tried to run it in each
compatibility mode and I have had no luck.
It will run the start up screen and their it sits.
I would appreciate any help you can give me!
Thank you,
Jen

You may just have to face the fact that it will never run under WinXP.
Many DOS programs won't since they don't behave themselves under the
hood.

If you must have it, then you may very well have to go back to an
older OS you know it worked under and not use it on an XP box.

 

[Steve Nielsen]

You may just have to face the fact that it will never run under WinXP.
Many DOS programs won't since they don't behave themselves under the
hood.

I don't think that the DOS apps don't behave - they do exactly what they
were written to do. It's more likely that XP doesn't allow direct
hardware access that many DOS apps were written to use.

If you must have it, then you may very well have to go back to an
older OS you know it worked under and not use it on an XP box.

Yep. Unfortunately that's the bottom line in a lot of cases.

Steve

 

[Plato]

I have an old DOS accounting program, PetroWare. We have
clients who still use, so we have to use it also. It runs
on Windows 95&98 and Windows NT.

Keep a win98 box for that, and other dos programs.

 

[cquirke (MVP Win9x)]

You may just have to face the fact that it will never run under WinXP.
Many DOS programs won't since they don't behave themselves

If you must have it, then you may very well have to go back to an
older OS you know it worked under and not use it on an XP box.

Remember, XP Pro gives you downgrade rights, so you can retro-fit the
DOS mode from Win98 and use that instead, for that app - or (messier)
install a full Win95 or 98 and use that instead.

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