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Old 05-12-2008   #1 (permalink)
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Re: Game Compatibility


"Hello, it's me!" <Hello, it's me!@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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>I have a coule of games that will not run on Vista. I have Vista Home
> Premium. I have searched the web and tried every approach i could. I
> download
> a whole lot of patches and still not progress. I wonder, is there any way
> to
> run XP games on Vista?
Try running the game as administrator (right click the game then click run
as administrator) or run the game in Compatibility mode (right click the
shortcut then properties then compatibility and run the game as winXP sp2).

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