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              After a successful upgrade from Windows 9x,ME,NT or SE to Microsoft Windows XP some of us may disappointed when try to run our favorite software that worked with previous version of Windows. You may see a massage like this ”thisprogram requires Windows98. Yes, the program is not designed for windows XP. After a long search I found a solution to run my softwares for windows 98/95/me/NT under windows XP !!

Experts saying that:

MS-DOS was a 16-bit platform. Windows 3.1 ran on top of MS- DOS and was also a 16-bit platform. Lots of software was written for MS-DOS and Windows 3.1. When Microsoft released Windows 95, which was a 32-bit operating system, it maintained backward compatibility so that older, 16-bit programs would still run on Windows 95.

Windows 95 meshed 16-bit and 32-bit code with MS-DOS at its core. Most 16-bit MS-DOS- and Windows 3.1-based programs would work fine on Windows 95, and programmers were free to write 32-bit programs for the newer operating system. Windows 95, 98, and Me were all based on the same core technology (called kernel), and all had about the same tolerance for running older applications.

Windows XP is based on a completely different kernel. It’s built on code that was introduced in Windows NT, evolved into Windows 2000, and was enhanced for Windows XP. The Windows NT kernel doesn’t have any MS-DOS components in it at all—it’s a pure 32-bit beast. It includes a 16-bit emulator and a command prompt mode that looks like MS-DOS.

Get what behind this phenomena. ? Now Windows XP is already packed with a solution for this problem faced my most of their users. “Microsoft is always one step ahead” and “Our potential is their passion” !!

Here is the simple solution for this. solution from a part we normally ignored/neglected !!. yes from the categories OS Windows”Help and Support”

If you receive an error message like this, open the Program Compatibility Wizard to help you test compatibility settings that may fix the problem. 

To open the Program Compatibility Wizard

• Click Start, click Help and Support, click Fixing a problem.
• Click Application and software problems.
• Click Getting older programs to run on Windows XP.
• Click the Start the Program Compatibility Wizard link.

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 On the next page, you can select whether to run the program in 256 color mode, to run it at a screen resolution of 640 x 480, and to disable visual themes. Windows XP themes can disrupt games designed for older operating systems. If the game you’re trying to run looks odd when you run it, experiment with these options.

Same way you can use Old Games, Applications,Packages,3D Softwares…..

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