Thanks for the advice guys. I purchased a new Compaq laptop a few months
ago when all the local stores were slashing prices in anticipation of the
release of Windows 7. It came with Vista but with a free upgrade to Windows
7. I did the installation last night and it went smoothly. They supply two
DVD's; one of which is the Windows 7 Advisor and the other the OS disk. The
install took about 3 hours but went without a hitch. Advisor recommended
that I uninstall some HP games and recommended a new keyboard filter (latest
Compaq driver fixed that issue). The version I have is the 32 bit Home
Premium, so no XP compatability mode. I've been reading however that 7 has
fewer problems with older software. In their efforts to make sure that
everything compatable with Vista would work with 7 they inadvertently made
it more compatable with programs that wouldn't work with Vista. So far they
have identified about 1200 programs that will run on 7 but not on Vista.
Sounds like someone at Microsoft screwed up big time. ;^)
Tonight I will try installing PSE 4.0 and an XP compatable version of
Family Tree Maker. Neither of these would install on Vista so maybe I'll get
lucky.
Charlie
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Ian Nichols <ian.a.nichols@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2009/12/1 Charles Geilfuss <charles.geilfuss@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > Greetings All,
> > Have any of you had experience with Windows 7 running older software;
> > specifically software that would run on XP but not on Vista?
>
> No personal experience, but did you know that Windows 7 Professional
> and Ultimate have a facility to run applications in XP compatibility
> mode? That might help you out.
>
> Personally, I'm holding off as long as possible for a couple of
> reasons. Firstly, I'll have to install from scratch, including
> reinstalling all apps, which will be a bit of a pain. Secondly, and
> more seriously, I have a SCSI flatbed and a SCSI film scanner that I'd
> like to keep using. It looks like that's going to be a problem
> because of limited driver support for the SCSI card, and none at all
> if I opt for the 64-bit version over 32-bit. I could move the
> scanners over to another PC and keep that one running XP, but then I'd
> have to keep moving the Huey & monitor around to keep the monitor
> calibration. Unless I buy more hardware, but I'd rather spend the
> money on lenses.
>
>
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