Program won't install in Windows XP.

I bought a Game for my Niece called PhotoMaxine for Girls. By Polaroid. It
was designed for Windows 95. When I attempted to install it in Windows XP I
got this error message. PhotoMaxine is not compatible with Windows NT. Now
I have software and games on my Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 Laptop
that were designed for Windows 3.1 and 95 that work fine without anyt issues.
Is there a way to fool the installation program into thinking I have windows
95 on my system? Just so I can install it. I feel that if I were able to
get past the istallation issue the software would work.

Thanks

Bogart

On Sat, 07 Jun 2008 02:42:51 GMT, "Bogart" <u44110@uwe> wrote:

>I bought a Game for my Niece called PhotoMaxine for Girls. By Polaroid. It
>was designed for Windows 95. When I attempted to install it in Windows XP I
>got this error message. PhotoMaxine is not compatible with Windows NT. Now
>I have software and games on my Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 Laptop
>that were designed for Windows 3.1 and 95 that work fine without anyt issues.
>Is there a way to fool the installation program into thinking I have windows
>95 on my system? Just so I can install it. I feel that if I were able to
>get past the istallation issue the software would work.
>
>Thanks
>
>Bogart

Explore the CD and run the setup program in compatibility mode
(right-click on the file and choose properties) Does that help? You
may have to do the same on the game exe after installation...

Windows 95 software communicates directly with a computers hardware, something that cannot be done in post Win95 operating systems, therefore some games just cannot be played. If it says Windows 95 avoid it.

You can try a Glide Wrapper:
http://www.zeckensack.de/glide/


ju.c


"Bogart" <u44110@uwe> wrote in message news:854c263f7b652@uwe...

> I bought a Game for my Niece called PhotoMaxine for Girls. By Polaroid. It
> was designed for Windows 95. When I attempted to install it in Windows XP I
> got this error message. PhotoMaxine is not compatible with Windows NT. Now
> I have software and games on my Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 Laptop
> that were designed for Windows 3.1 and 95 that work fine without anyt issues.
> Is there a way to fool the installation program into thinking I have windows
> 95 on my system? Just so I can install it. I feel that if I were able to
> get past the istallation issue the software would work.
>
> Thanks
>
> Bogart
>

Thanks,

That trick worked.

Bogart

Katy Pluta wrote:
>>I bought a Game for my Niece called PhotoMaxine for Girls. By Polaroid. It
>>was designed for Windows 95. When I attempted to install it in Windows XP I
>[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
>>
>>Bogart
>
>Explore the CD and run the setup program in compatibility mode
>(right-click on the file and choose properties) Does that help? You
>may have to do the same on the game exe after installation...

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