We have several home grown 16-Bit apps that we still run and support and they have all run fine on the 32-bit version of Windows 7. I will be really glad when July 1st rolls around and we will start retiring most of them. We still have to keep a few around for about 6 months to ensure that everything is fine but hey that is better than nothing and most will be gone.
From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 1:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Running a DOS app on Win7 64-bit version of Win7? Yeah, that's a problem. The 32-bit version should run 16-bit DOS apps. Carl From: Evan Brastow [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Running a DOS app on Win7 Hi guys, Okay, don't laugh! But I have an issue that's funny yet sad. Our company still relies on several key dBASE IV apps (DOS) to run certain parts of the company. Nothing I can do about that at the moment. It's been working out fine (well, sort of) so far and we've also used Visual dBASE here and there. The problem came today when I bought a small new HP desktop for a user whose previous computer had died. Her previous computer ran XP, and her new computer comes with, any guesses? Very good... you read the subject line... Windows 7. So I create a shortcut to where the EXE is located on a network drive, and it won't run. I do a quick amount of research and find that Win7 has removed all support for 16 bit DOS programs. Not a happy day so far. So I know I could probably download something like DOSBox and get it running, but that wouldn't give me any ability to print, I don't think. And I'm going to have to look into what I read a couple of months ago; that Win7 comes with a virtual instance of Win XP. I haven't found that yet but will research that, too. My question is, is there any other way to get DOS functionality out of Win7 that would include printing? Thanks, Evan ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
