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Question for some 2000/XP gurus .....

MotorheadMotorhead Member UncommonPosts: 1,193
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Okay, so I put one of my Gateways in my daughter's room for her to use.  A three year old now has a P4 1.5 with a Gig of RAM.  I have XP Pro with SP2 on it.

My issue is, a lot of the software she'll be using is dated (meant for 98), it's a bunch of that living-book stuff, you can't get it for XP anymore I believe.  But it's cute and she likes it. 

But some of it bombs out.  I've tried compatability mode, and I think that's a waste of time and mouse-clicks, but maybe I'm wrong .....

I don't have a Win98 disk anymore (but who does?), so my question is:  Is it possible that putting Win2000 on this machine may act kinder to win98 software, or will it not even matter since 2000 and XP are both 32bit OS's ?

Cuz nothing sucks worse that trying to explain to a three year old why a program that she wants to play with isn't working on XP.  I tried explaining OS compatability issues with her, but she just stared at me and sucked on her sippy-cup of milk. 

So please, for the children, what do you think I should do?  Install 2000?  Actually buy a copy of 98 off of Ebay?  Hide the CD's and pretend the whole thing never happened?  What ???

 

 

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  • Dac321eqDac321eq Member Posts: 42
    Look around for a copy of Winodws 98, at work ask around. You can sneak Windows 98 without a CD key I believe and if you need it the same one can be used more then once.  Thats my recommendation.  I wouldn't trust Ebay.  Look for it through people you can trust.

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  • qurckqurck Member Posts: 91
    to help you use win 98/95 programs go to START>ALL PROGRAMS>ACCESSORIES>PROGRAM COMPATABILITY WIZARD. that gives you some options that will configure XP to use older programs. i hope that helps

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  • MotorheadMotorhead Member UncommonPosts: 1,193


    Originally posted by qurck
    to help you use win 98/95 programs go to START>ALL PROGRAMS>ACCESSORIES>PROGRAM COMPATABILITY WIZARD. that gives you some options that will configure XP to use older programs. i hope that helps

    We call the village idiot Mr. President

    /ScratchesHead.  I never noticed that before ....

    Thanks !!

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