Win98 software

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Eustace

I recently got my new computer and started using XP. I have a few
software CD-ROMS (like Rand McNally Atlas) that do not include XP among
the operating systems they are supposed to work. What is the general
experience of trying work such programs on XP?
 
That they work. There would need to be an error in the program, and the authors (or users) didn't tell MS while XP was tested (because MS would have built in a special exception for the program), for it not to work.
 
Eustace said:
I recently got my new computer and started using XP. I have a few
software CD-ROMS (like Rand McNally Atlas) that do not include XP
among the operating systems they are supposed to work.
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Probably because XP didn't yet exist when the CDs were made.

What is the
general experience of trying work such programs on XP?
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In general, most of them should work. There's cetrainly no harm in trying
them all.
 
Ken Blake said:
Probably because XP didn't yet exist when the CDs were made.




In general, most of them should work. There's cetrainly no harm in
trying them all.
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The most common problem that I have run into is when running
win 98 programs under limited user accounts -- you will often
get protection errors since the programs like to store "stuff"
in places other than your files where they should. Filemon
from http://www.sysinternals.com (free) can help in that
situation -- takes a bit of work, but you can find where it is
trying to write and either change the protections on that folder
or try to get it to write somewhere else. Games are the ones
I have seen most often causing this problem.

mikey
 
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