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11-22-2007
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| | i have vista 64 and some old games that wont install is there any way of me being able to install some of my old 95 games in vista 64 i could in xp 32 but i get the message that i need a 64 bit version of the software is there a way around this or is it now impossible |
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11-22-2007
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| | Re: i have vista 64 and some old games that wont install Hi, If they are 16-bit applications (and many from that era were), then the answer is no. There is no 16-bit support in x64 for a number of technical reasons. What you might be able to do is download and install Virtual PC, and if you have an install disk for an earlier OS such as Win95/98, etc. that does support 16-bit apps, create a virtual machine with that OS and run the applications from there. Virtual PC (free): http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...c/default.mspx -- 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 "jj22" <jj22@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:6F003882-2BDA-4CC7-9340-61A80BF7C9F0@xxxxxx Quote: > is there any way of me being able to install some of my old 95 games in > vista > 64 i could in xp 32 but i get the message that i need a 64 bit version of > the > software is there a way around this or is it now impossible |
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11-22-2007
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| | Re: i have vista 64 and some old games that wont install thank you "Rick Rogers" wrote: Quote: > Hi, > > If they are 16-bit applications (and many from that era were), then the > answer is no. There is no 16-bit support in x64 for a number of technical > reasons. What you might be able to do is download and install Virtual PC, > and if you have an install disk for an earlier OS such as Win95/98, etc. > that does support 16-bit apps, create a virtual machine with that OS and run > the applications from there. > > Virtual PC (free): > http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...c/default.mspx > > -- > 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 > > "jj22" <jj22@xxxxxx> wrote in message > news:6F003882-2BDA-4CC7-9340-61A80BF7C9F0@xxxxxx Quote: > > is there any way of me being able to install some of my old 95 games in > > vista > > 64 i could in xp 32 but i get the message that i need a 64 bit version of > > the > > software is there a way around this or is it now impossible > |
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