Old programs on xp

If your program isn't displayed correctly on a PC with a high-DPI display its features are blurry or are too big or too small , select Change high DPI settings , and then try one of these options in the Properties dialog box:. In the Program DPI section, select Use this setting to fix scaling problems for this program instead of the one in Settings to use the DPI settings you want to use for this program.

Note: This changes the DPI only for the app you're adjusting. For more info about changing the setting for all apps, see Fix apps that appear blurry.

This is the default setting. I open this program — Use the DPI that was set for your main display at the time you open the specific program. Change the application's high-DPI scaling mode.

Application — Disable all Windows scaling settings and only use the app developer's setting. On a high-DPI display, this will make the program appear blurry. As a result, some programs will display with crisp text on high-DPI displays. This won't work for all programs.

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I'm afraid you're missing the point I'm trying to make: These are NOT programs that have installation wizards. They are programs that pre-date that feature. I have the. EXE and. I thought I had made that clear, like my request for documentation -- which I am now beginning to suspect does not exist. I can go into XP Mode, I can use Windows Explorer to get to the drive where the programs are, and I can click on the programs to run them, either directly or via a shortcut. BUT the programs don't run very far because they can't find the subdirectories where the configuration files and other program components are.

With a directory path like that, the old programs apparently can't find their way to the directory where the program is running. I'd appreciate any suggestions you could provide. Your response came at an opportune time snce I was just about to post my questions in the Tech Help area. I am getting rather frustrated at not being able to get any useful documentation on setting up old programs in XP Mode.

If there isn't any, please say so. I take the lack of response to mean there is no helpful documentation on setting up old programs in XP Mode. It also appears that no one has ever tried to run these old programs under XP Mode when they're in a folder on a Windows 7 drive rather than on the XP Mode drive. At this point, then, my upgrade to XP Professsional and subsequent installation of XP Mode has been a waste of money and an even greater waste of time in trying to get old programs to run when I have a Windows 7 operating system.

The few programs I have figured out how to run under XP Mode run very slowly and if I installed an anti-virus programs -- which I haven't done yet, since I am at the point of abandoning XP Mode -- these programs would run unacceptably slowly. Quite frankly, I can't see much value in XP Mode. If you put the files on the XP box and use a shortcut in the windows 7 all users folder then you should see the shortcuts on the 7 start menu.

I do know that most my portable apps run just fine on windows 7 once I turned down the UAC. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro?