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by iingtom22

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I am having difficulty getting files to oen once i trancefer them from widows 98 to windows xp. i know they are very much different and i know there is a prgram in xp to to help me do this but i dont want to transfer the entire hard drive.Is the not a prgram i can get ,without spending an arm and a leg to ,to solve this problem.

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by captbilly1eye

If you are referring to the XP Compatibility Mode capability, that is accessed by right clicking on the programs executable, selecting Properties, clicking the Compatibility tab, putting a check in front of 'Run This Program in Compatibility Mode,' selecting a choice in the drop-down list, and then clicking Apply & OK.

Keep in mind... programs that originally required an installation procedure to install them on the previous system will require that the full installation process be run on this new system. Just copying files over will not work.

Some very old programs that were written in 16 bit will probably not work properly on XP.

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