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Getting Programs to Work Using Old Hard Drive
I have a new eMachine D620-5133, Model No. MS2257, which is made by Acer.
The operating system is Window Vista Home Basic SP-1 and it has a 32-bit operating system. I connected the hard drive from my old Dell with Windows 98 to my new computer. I used an Airlink101 3.5” USB 2.0 SATA/IDE HDD Enclosure, Model AEN-U35SE to make the connection. I am able to access the files on the old hard drive, but the programs don’t work. The whole point was to be able to use MS Word in the old format, rather than the new format, which looks completely different. Other programs don’t work, either. What can I do to make them work? Does anybody have any idea how to solve my problem? |
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Getting Programs to Work Using Old Hard Drive
"Jim in Spokane" wrote in message ... I have a new eMachine D620-5133, Model No. MS2257, which is made by Acer. The operating system is Window Vista Home Basic SP-1 and it has a 32-bit operating system. I connected the hard drive from my old Dell with Windows 98 to my new computer. I used an Airlink101 3.5” USB 2.0 SATA/IDE HDD Enclosure, Model AEN-U35SE to make the connection. I am able to access the files on the old hard drive, but the programs don’t work. The whole point was to be able to use MS Word in the old format, rather than the new format, which looks completely different. Other programs don’t work, either. What can I do to make them work? Does anybody have any idea how to solve my problem? Two things - a) you can't run Office applications from an external drive or a slave drive (and many other applications come to that) and b) you need to re-install them on the new computer to use them. Why would you think otherwise? -- Asking a question? Please tell us the version of the application you are asking about, your OS, Service Pack level and the FULL contents of any error message(s) |
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Getting Programs to Work Using Old Hard Drive
Dear Gordon,
I would think otherwise because it only seems reasonable that I paid for the software and I ought to be able to continue using it. Why is that illogical or wrong? I tried re-installing the programs as you suggested, but little messages with obscure objections kept popping up --- such and such is missing, etc. --- and nothing works. Maybe it's because the software was designed for Windows 98 and I'm using Windows Vista. I'm sure you know better than I as to why none of this works, but I'm guessing the root cause is the desire of Microsoft to sell more software. Understanding this and assuming that is what I need to do, I'm willing to pay. But the software that's offered is so different from what I'm used to in the case of MS Word that there's no point. So are you're telling me there is no solution to my problem? "Gordon" wrote: "Jim in Spokane" wrote in message ... I have a new eMachine D620-5133, Model No. MS2257, which is made by Acer. The operating system is Window Vista Home Basic SP-1 and it has a 32-bit operating system. I connected the hard drive from my old Dell with Windows 98 to my new computer. I used an Airlink101 3.5” USB 2.0 SATA/IDE HDD Enclosure, Model AEN-U35SE to make the connection. I am able to access the files on the old hard drive, but the programs don’t work. The whole point was to be able to use MS Word in the old format, rather than the new format, which looks completely different. Other programs don’t work, either. What can I do to make them work? Does anybody have any idea how to solve my problem? Two things - a) you can't run Office applications from an external drive or a slave drive (and many other applications come to that) and b) you need to re-install them on the new computer to use them. Why would you think otherwise? -- Asking a question? Please tell us the version of the application you are asking about, your OS, Service Pack level and the FULL contents of any error message(s) |
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Getting Programs to Work Using Old Hard Drive
One way to do this is to download VitualPC, install a Windows98 Virtual
Machine and then install the older version of Word into this. -- David Vair CNE, CNA, MCP, A+, N+ "Jim in Spokane" wrote in message ... Dear Gordon, I would think otherwise because it only seems reasonable that I paid for the software and I ought to be able to continue using it. Why is that illogical or wrong? I tried re-installing the programs as you suggested, but little messages with obscure objections kept popping up --- such and such is missing, etc. --- and nothing works. Maybe it's because the software was designed for Windows 98 and I'm using Windows Vista. I'm sure you know better than I as to why none of this works, but I'm guessing the root cause is the desire of Microsoft to sell more software. Understanding this and assuming that is what I need to do, I'm willing to pay. But the software that's offered is so different from what I'm used to in the case of MS Word that there's no point. So are you're telling me there is no solution to my problem? "Gordon" wrote: "Jim in Spokane" wrote in message ... I have a new eMachine D620-5133, Model No. MS2257, which is made by Acer. The operating system is Window Vista Home Basic SP-1 and it has a 32-bit operating system. I connected the hard drive from my old Dell with Windows 98 to my new computer. I used an Airlink101 3.5” USB 2.0 SATA/IDE HDD Enclosure, Model AEN-U35SE to make the connection. I am able to access the files on the old hard drive, but the programs don’t work. The whole point was to be able to use MS Word in the old format, rather than the new format, which looks completely different. Other programs don’t work, either. What can I do to make them work? Does anybody have any idea how to solve my problem? Two things - a) you can't run Office applications from an external drive or a slave drive (and many other applications come to that) and b) you need to re-install them on the new computer to use them. Why would you think otherwise? -- Asking a question? Please tell us the version of the application you are asking about, your OS, Service Pack level and the FULL contents of any error message(s) |
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Getting Programs to Work Using Old Hard Drive
"Jim in Spokane" wrote in message ... Dear Gordon, I would think otherwise because it only seems reasonable that I paid for the software and I ought to be able to continue using it. Why is that illogical or wrong? I tried re-installing the programs as you suggested, but little messages with obscure objections kept popping up --- such and such is missing, etc. --- and nothing works. Maybe it's because the software was designed for Windows 98 and I'm using Windows Vista. I'm sure you know better than I as to why none of this works, but I'm guessing the root cause is the desire of Microsoft to sell more software. Understanding this and assuming that is what I need to do, I'm willing to pay. But the software that's offered is so different from what I'm used to in the case of MS Word that there's no point. So are you're telling me there is no solution to my problem? There may be a solution. As you have found out - there can be problems installing and running old legacy programs in Vista. (Certainly programs designed for Windows 98 - that's two versions ago and XP was MUCH more forgiving to legacy software). What you need to do is to do Start-Help and Support and in the search box type in "Compatibility" (without the quotes). One of the options that comes up (it's no 6 on mine) is "Make older programs run on this version of Windows". Read that and see if that helps. -- Asking a question? Please tell us the version of the application you are asking about, your OS, Service Pack level and the FULL contents of any error message(s) |
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Getting Programs to Work Using Old Hard Drive
Jim in Spokane wrote:
Dear Gordon, I would think otherwise because it only seems reasonable that I paid for the software and I ought to be able to continue using it. Why is that illogical or wrong? I tried re-installing the programs as you suggested, but little messages with obscure objections kept popping up --- such and such is missing, etc. --- and nothing works. Maybe it's because the software was designed for Windows 98 and I'm using Windows Vista. I'm sure you know better than I as to why none of this works, but I'm guessing the root cause is the desire of Microsoft to sell more software. No. The software doesn't work because: 1) it's not reasonable to expect MS to make every freaking OS 100% backwards-compatible. 2) the authors of the software have stopped updating it to current standards. 3) MOST software requires that it be installed in the current OS... which won't be possible if it's too old. It has nothing to do with MS wanting to sell more software. |
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Getting Programs to Work Using Old Hard Drive
"Jim in Spokane" wrote in message ... I have a new eMachine D620-5133, Model No. MS2257, which is made by Acer. The operating system is Window Vista Home Basic SP-1 and it has a 32-bit operating system. I connected the hard drive from my old Dell with Windows 98 to my new computer. I used an Airlink101 3.5” USB 2.0 SATA/IDE HDD Enclosure, Model AEN-U35SE to make the connection. I am able to access the files on the old hard drive, but the programs don’t work. The whole point was to be able to use MS Word in the old format, rather than the new format, which looks completely different. Other programs don’t work, either. What can I do to make them work? Does anybody have any idea how to solve my problem? In addition to all the other posts, when a program as sophisticated as Office is installed onto a computer it puts links into the operating system control files (in this case the registry) to enable the program to use the facilities of the operating system better. Since the program wasn't installed onto your Vista system those links do not exist and Vista doesn't know about the program. Some of your other programs will have the same limitation. Which version of Office are you trying to install? Have you uninstalled any trial version of Office 2007 prior to attempting to install an older version of Office? Some people have indicated that they have installed Office '97 onto Vista but I have not successfully installed it yet. |
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Getting Programs to Work Using Old Hard Drive
1. The program MUST be "installed" onto the computer where you wish to
use the program. 2. If the version of Office is older than Office 2003 you will/may have problems even if you do install it onto the new computer. 3. Upgrade to the latest version of Office or one of the FREE (but not 100% compatible) alternates, such as Open Office 3.1 -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience "Jim in Spokane" wrote in message ... Dear Gordon, I would think otherwise because it only seems reasonable that I paid for the software and I ought to be able to continue using it. Why is that illogical or wrong? I tried re-installing the programs as you suggested, but little messages with obscure objections kept popping up --- such and such is missing, etc. --- and nothing works. Maybe it's because the software was designed for Windows 98 and I'm using Windows Vista. I'm sure you know better than I as to why none of this works, but I'm guessing the root cause is the desire of Microsoft to sell more software. Understanding this and assuming that is what I need to do, I'm willing to pay. But the software that's offered is so different from what I'm used to in the case of MS Word that there's no point. So are you're telling me there is no solution to my problem? "Gordon" wrote: "Jim in Spokane" wrote in message ... I have a new eMachine D620-5133, Model No. MS2257, which is made by Acer. The operating system is Window Vista Home Basic SP-1 and it has a 32-bit operating system. I connected the hard drive from my old Dell with Windows 98 to my new computer. I used an Airlink101 3.5” USB 2.0 SATA/IDE HDD Enclosure, Model AEN-U35SE to make the connection. I am able to access the files on the old hard drive, but the programs don’t work. The whole point was to be able to use MS Word in the old format, rather than the new format, which looks completely different. Other programs don’t work, either. What can I do to make them work? Does anybody have any idea how to solve my problem? Two things - a) you can't run Office applications from an external drive or a slave drive (and many other applications come to that) and b) you need to re-install them on the new computer to use them. Why would you think otherwise? -- Asking a question? Please tell us the version of the application you are asking about, your OS, Service Pack level and the FULL contents of any error message(s) |
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Getting Programs to Work Using Old Hard Drive
Another solution is to down load OpenOffice from OpenOffice.com. It has the look and "feel" of MS Office. It is a free down load and works with all of my MS Office files. Yes, you will have to learn the differances, but that will likely be the case anyway with a newer version of MS Office. MS Office 2007 interface sucks! OpenOffice is better and FREE! -- Battman540 |