Hi Chris,
Compatibility mode does as much as it can, but there are limitations. It
simply will not allow everything to work as it was expected to work in
Win98. Vista's user environment and program run mode are vastly different
than Win98's. The program was written expecting full system file access, and
may use hard-coded lines to routines that no longer even exist.
Compatibility mode will allow some things to work, but ultimately the real
solution has to come from the software vendor in rewriting it to meet
current operating system specifications.
--
Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help -
www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts
http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
"Chris_King" <ChrisKing@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:
> It is important to note that I am running Windows Vista
>
> But this is an issue with several programs designed for Win 98, and run in
> Vista's Win 98 compatibility mode, it is the compatibility mode that is
> the
> issue not the program. Corell i can upgrade, however the other is an
> independantly programmed piece of software that was finished in
> development
> in 98, so there will most likely be no update to the software itself. I
> appreciate your help, but it seems easier to me to fix Vista's
> compatibility
> program than re-program nearly a decades worth of software, Isn't that the
> purpose of Compatibility mode?
>
> "Rick Rogers" wrote:
> Quote:
>> Probably the only solution will be to upgrade to a compatible version,
>> Chris.
>>
>> --
>> Best of Luck,
>>
>> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>>
>> "Chris_King" <ChrisKing@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:0CD4878D-8CC0-4916-9CC6-713588656B8A@xxxxxx Quote:
>> > When installing a majority of my misc. win 98 software I got an access
>> > error
>> > when I selected to open file and I selected the desired file, but the
>> > open
>> > file window is on top where it should be. So I placed the exe in
>> > compatibility mode and went to open the file again and I could not see
>> > the
>> > file selection window. i selected another window and returned to the
>> > desred
>> > program and upon return the open file window was on top. this is a
>> > repeatable
>> > process in Corell draw as well as a 3rd party program I use frequently,
>> > changing to compatibility mode for 95/98 will fix the file access
>> > issue,
>> > but
>> > the open file window is behind the main one. just an irritant, does
>> > anyone
>> > have a fix for this?
>>
>>