Tracy,
I am facing similar problems. Two weeks ago I got a new desktop computer with Windows 7 Home Premium on it. I quickly discovered that when I try to run any of the old DOS programs I get the same error message you are reporting. I tried opening a command-line window, which works, but when I try to run the programs in that window I still get the error message. This was puzzling, because last spring I bought a notebook computer with Windows 7 Starter on it, and all my old programs *do* run properly on it, as they had on an earlier computer running Windows XP. So I put some of my programs on a flash drive and went to the local computer store. It seems I will have to upgrade from Windows 7 Home Premium to Windows 7 Professional. There is a free download available for Windows 7 Professional that lets it run XP-compatible programs in a DOS Window. I verified that it will do this on a couple of machines at the store. Another option is a freeware program, Dosbox. I have downloaded that from the web, and it will run the old programs as well. The only problem is that with Dosbox you have to execute a number of steps and clicks each and every time you want to run an old program. This is a nuisance. I want to be able to have icons on my desktop that I can click on and run my programs immediately, as I could do on my old XP machine. So I am about to upgrade to Windows 7 Professional (which will cost about $100). Roger From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tracy Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2010 8:14 PM To: sundial Subject: Dialist's Companion Hello Everyone I got a new computer and it has Windows 7 on it. I tried to use the "Dialist's Companion" program with it, and it won't work. The error message that comes up when I try to run the program states that the program is not compatible with my version of Windows, and that I should check my computer system information to see if I need a 32-bit or a 64-bit version of the program. Can anyone help me? I tried downloading the latest version straight from the website itself, but it still doesn't work :-( Thank you in advance. Tracy
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