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Name: Rebbekkah
Date: October 8, 2001 at 20:06:46 Pacific
Comment:

Is there any way to load 16 bit programs?



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Response Number 1
Name: Raven
Date: October 9, 2001 at 03:18:46 Pacific
Reply:

Hi

Try launch Help and Support Center. Search for "compatibility wizard". The first topic might help you out.


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Response Number 2
Name: Steve
Date: October 9, 2001 at 06:48:55 Pacific
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If you make a link for a program you want to run, you can go into the properties of the link and change how it should be run. For example, you can choose to run it in MS-DOS mode, Windows 95 mode, blah blah blah. You can also have it run in 256 color mode if 32-bit is too much.


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Response Number 3
Name: Raven
Date: October 9, 2001 at 06:56:56 Pacific
Reply:

That's right Steve but...it'll only work if you are able to install it within Win XP.

If Win XP doesn't allow you to install the program due to the fact that it's a 16 bit program then you'll have to run the setup using the program "Compatibility Wizard"...


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Response Number 4
Name: Steve
Date: October 9, 2001 at 07:01:08 Pacific
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That's true. I guess I didn't know if Rebbekkah meant that it had to be installed as opposed to a program that can just run from the command line. "Load" is kind of ambiguous.


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Response Number 5
Name: Rebbekkah
Date: October 9, 2001 at 19:28:22 Pacific
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Tried compatibility wizard and XP won't let any of my 16 bit apps install. one says it is not a win32 program and the other says it caused an error 11 what ever that is?


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Response Number 6
Name: Raven
Date: October 10, 2001 at 00:03:56 Pacific
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Are you installing a hardware dependant program or are you installing a pure software based program?

If it's a hardware program then the hardware might not be supported by Win XP yet.

E.g. the HP Deskjet 1220c printer driver will not install due to the fact that it is not Win XP compatible. Maybe your case is similar.


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Response Number 7
Name: Bruce
Date: November 29, 2001 at 07:32:36 Pacific
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I've had the same problem. My kids have been using the simulation game "Pharaoh" on our old computer (Windows95 OS). We recently bought a new computer running WindowsXP. When we tried to install the game on the new computer, it came back with a "Can't run 16-bit windows program". I tried every possible permutation/combination that the windows compatibility wizard had to offer, but none of them worked. It won't let me install the software. I did a Microsoft Database search and found out that the new memory model is different with XP...something to do with the virtual memory. There was something about a maximum memory setting in the system.ini file that would possibly help. Alas, I didn't save the link or print the page, and now I can't find it!! If anyone figures this out, please let me know.

Thanks,
Bruce


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cant get my hardware mode... GEFORCE 2 WITH XP



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